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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 Number 235***DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER***Sunday 14-11-2004 THIS NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Binnenbaan 36 3161VB RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl [email protected] The RAGNILD KNUTSEN enroute the Caland Canal Photo : Peet de Rouw © PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 1 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS KNRM DONATEURS DAG De Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maastchappij, welke dit jaar 180 jaar bestaat hield zaterdag de donateurs dag, en wel voor speciale donateurs, mensen welke al 50 jaar of meer lid zijn van de KNRM waren uitgenodigd voor een ontmoeting met de bemanningen en een vaartocht , Photo´s : Piet Sinke © In Hoek van Holland werd de reddingsboot CHRISTIEN ingezet, de CHRISTIEN is tijdelijk in Hoek van Holland daar de vaste boot KAPITEINS HAZEWINKEL voor onderhoud aan de werf ligt, er werden enkele trips gemaakt op de Waterweg waarvan de donateurs PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 2 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 zichtbaar genoten, Na het maritieme intermezzo kregen de donateurs en de bemanning nog even de gelegenheid om onder het genot van een hapje en een drankje in de Torpedoloods van gedachten te wisselen over het werk van de KNRM, de leeftijd van de oudste persoon was 90 jaar Van koopvaardij tot surfplank Vanaf de oprichting bewijst de Redding Maatschappij haar diensten aan de beroepsvaart. Het waren voornamelijk strandingen die de redders in de beginjaren van tijd tot tijd werk bezorgden. De spectaculaire tochten naar de Renown (1887), het s.s. Bramow (1935), de Katowice (1949), de Ping An (1965), de Margariti (1967) en de Stardust (1976) symboliseren het reddingwerk, zoals velen dat nog kennen: lange, zware tochten naar gestrande zeeschepen, waarbij in een vliegende storm hele bemanningen van boord werden gehaald. Het zijn de reddingen die door de Redding Maatschappij met “goud” werden bekroond. Diensten ten behoeve van de watersport zijn over het algemeen minder spectaculair. Maar daarom niet minder nodig. De acties hebben een sterk preventief karakter: door de hoge snelheid van de moderne reddingboten kan de KNRM in veel gevallen daadwerkelijke noodsituaties voor zijn, om zodoende erger leed voor de betrokkenen te voorkomen. Jaarlijks vaart de KNRM ongeveer 800 keer uit voor de pleziervaart, in de meeste gevallen als gevolg van motorstoring of slechter wordende weersomstandigheden. Maar ook de beroepsvaart doet nog gemiddeld 200 keer per jaar een beroep op de KNRM. Tegenwoordig telt het dienstenoverzicht van de KNRM ongeveer 1500 acties per jaar. In 1825 hoefde de Redding Maatschappij slechts zes maal in actie te komen. Een mensenleven is kostbaar. Een leven redden ook! Een mensenleven is kostbaar. Daarover zijn we het in Nederland wel eens. Bemanningen van de KNRM geven deze opvatting handen en voeten door ver te gaan in pogingen om levens van anderen te redden. Omdat de redders daarbij zelf ook in gevaarlijke situaties terecht kunnen komen, investeert de KNRM al het nodige in veiligheid. Goed uitgeruste reddingboten, veiligheidskleding en goede opleidingen zijn voor redders van levensbelang. De KNRM kan beschikken over voldoende bemanningsleden voor de zestig reddingboten die in haar gebied gestationeerd liggen. Gelukkig maar. Zonder de inzet van de 800 vrijwillige bemanningsleden zouden de reddingboten van de KNRM gedoemd zijn aan de steiger te blijven liggen. Tegelijkertijd zijn de bemanningen afhankelijk van het allerbeste materieel, dat alleen kan worden aangeschaft en onderhouden als de KNRM ook in de toekomst voldoende schenkingen en donaties mag blijven ontvangen. Feitelijk staat de schenker dus aan de basis van het reddingwerk. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 3 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 Bent u benieuwd hoe ú een bijdrage kunt leveren aan het reddingwerk van de KNRM? Surf dan gewoon eens langs de verschillende mogelijkheden. De KNRM is blij met elk initiatief, ongeacht de vorm of de hoogte van de bijdrage. http://www.knrm.nl/ Stichting Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij Beschermvrouwe: Hare Majesteit de Koningin Postbank rek.nr. 26363 Rabobank rek.nr. 37.35.46.181 De KNRM wordt uitsluitend door vrijwillige bijdragen in stand gehouden. A Story about the Macardle Bridge Reaction on the accident photo of the Michaela McAllister Back in 1973 when the Texaco Fuel Chief was but a few months old the mate on the Fuel Chief hit the Macardle Bridge . This mate had been a mate on the Texaco tankers and he wanted to try the tugboat business. Well while the barge 808 was over loading the Capt told the mate to go over to Texaco Chelsea for some fuel. As the mate was approaching the Macardle Bridge he requested a opening. The bridge asked if the Fuel Chief could get through with just one span opened. The mate said sure. As the Texaco Fuel Chief's mate was going through the opened span he was leaning out the stbd window to make sure that the upper wheelhouse cleared. One problem, Clearing the upper wheelhouse, the windows in the lower wheelhouse crashed into the closed span. Texaco at the time did not fire the mate for this. A few years later this same mate figured how to hit the Saint George Bridge in the C&D canal with the bow of the light Texaco barge 808. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 4 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 At this time Texaco figured that this mate was not made for tugs. Did he get fired? Hell no. This mate was put back on to the deep sea tankers and ended as a Texaco TTOA Tanker captain. Now a short story about being absent of the wheelhouse. Texaco used to have a tug captain who used to leave the tug on auto pilot and stay in his room while underway. The engineer used to tell this Texaco captain that he would turn him if he continued to doing that. This captain would behave for a while and then go back to the same old stunts. The engineer got a transfer to a different Texaco tug. A few years later this same captain ran over and sunk a sail boat in Delaware Bay. To this time he said that he was in the wheelhouse when he sunk the sail boat. With past record, I doubt he was there, but who knows. He retired from Texaco at this time. At the time I was on my time off listening the radio for my part time towing business I used to own. Living in South Jersey I head the conversation between another pleasure boat and this Texaco tug/barge on ch 16.It seems that the Texaco captain did not even know that he sunk a sailboat until the other told him. The other pleasure boat picked the sole person on the sunk sailboat. For every bad Texaco tug captain or mate there is many more men who were good seaman. When I was still a deckhand on the Texaco Sky Chief I had a captain who taught me the business and NY Harbor/Hudson River. Capt Tony was the man who pushed me to get into the wheelhouse. We had a slow single screw, 1600 hp Enterprise direct rev engine. Very interesting. While making many mistakes in the years coming up the ladder, hitting bridges with a upper wheelhouse is not one of them. Fred M Bulker leaking oil off Vancouver TUGS were dispatched before daybreak today to the Greek-flagged bulker Thrasyvoulos V after the vessel was found to be leaking oil into the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver. US and Canadian Coast Guard units responded to the scene and the vessel was ordered to remain at least 161 km from shore until tugs arrived and the spill situation could be evaluated. US Coast Guard helicopters were also being dispatched to determine the extent of the spill. The 20-year-old ship was en route for Vancouver, BC from South Korea in ballast, according to state officials. Washington state ecology officials discovered a small hole above the waterline into a petroleum holding tank. The hole was immediately patched and the oil transferred to another storage tank, stopping the leak that the ship’s master said resulted from refuelling in South Korea. The spill involved light fuel, not heavy bunker oil, according to the US Coast Guard, which added the ship had about 8,000 gallons of fuel on board. TROUBLE-HIT FERRY HAS FAILED AGAIN The Plymouth-based £100 million superferry Pont-Aven has yet again sailed into trouble, leaving passengers facing delays. It emerged this morning that Brittany Ferries' flagship is stranded in Santander for 24 hours while repairs are carried out to one of her turbochargers. Now the ferry is being taken out of service, weeks earlier than planned, for a month for repairs. To add to the company's woes, the vessel's bow doors have been jammed shut for the past month. The turbocharger fault is the latest in a string of problems to hit the 41,700-tonne ferry, which only came into service on the Santander route in March. The bow doors jammed within a couple of weeks of the ship entering service, leading to delays. Pont- Aven then had to be taken out of action during the peak summer holiday season after 1,200 tonnes of seawater flooded the engine-room while she was alongside at Millbay Docks - blocking the city's only ferry berth and leaving the travel plans of thousands of people in chaos.
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