Are The Containers On This Ship Secured Or Does Their Weight Hold Them Steady?

[sandyRoe]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/-terrifying--monster-of-the-sea-container-ship-with-the-ability-to-carry-900-million-tins-of-food-arrives-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time-163030903.html?vp=1#Vgx3Fzd

[DTCwordfan]

well it's got here from China, so I think it's pretty safe. Should try an oil tanker.....crude ships go up to nearly 0.5 mln tonnes and over half a mile long. The crew have bikes or motor-scooters to get to the bow from the stern quarters.....

[TWR]

Why do you think the Gaul from Hull Sank?

[sandyRoe]

In the late 70s two containers full of ammunition washed up on a shore on the west coast of Ireland. That was something we could have done without. Fortunately, the Guarda secured both. They'd been en route from the USA to Israel.

[Baldric]

Yes I do, after I left the RMs I was with a Shipping Company for quite a while, I can assure you the Loadmasters went to a great deal of trouble to make sure the Ships were not top heavy, 'cause whatever you think that would not work, they may look top heavy, but they're not!

[sandyRoe]

Did it net a Soviet submarine that pulled it over?

[DTCwordfan]

The Russian Submariners Top Ten:

You keep a knock'in but you can't come in
Rescue Me
Under pressure
We all live in a broken submarine
What shall we do with a sunken sailor?
Every breath you take
Knock, knock, knockin' on heavens door
I am the walrus
Baby it's cold outside
Anything by Air Supply

[Baldric]

I don't see the connection but there's a report here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Gaul#The_1970s_Formal_Investigation

[Baldric]

And this could also be relevant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Gaul#2004_inquiry

[boxtops]

It's amazing, I saw it on the news this morning - you'd certainly spot that sailing down the Channel..... (but then the draft's not deep enough around here to take a huge vessel like that)

[Baldric]

From the link I gave you @ 16:26 (in Cargo Plans section)

///If there are very heavy containers they are usually best placed at the bottom; this stops the ship becoming top heavy.///

[TWR]

I'd read somewhere that there was a mass of Ice her rigging, mast's causing her to be top heavy, but that was one of many story's.

[Baldric]

If that was the case TWR, that would have made her top heavy, which would have proved my point, wouldn't it?

[tamborine]

At last, delivery of my micro sim

[sandyRoe]

tamborine, could you not have sourced one locally?

[tamborine]

Sandy, deny you viewing this hulk..no