Thread: Pics from pasha bulker prior to running aground

Not a good career move I would recon.

Those were good pics regardless of what the ship was, I couldnt imagine being comfortable with watching the front of the ship I was on going under the waves like that.

Is that pic of the Pasha real, it looks bigger than I expected, I know it's big but that is huge in comparison than what you see on the news.

Originally Posted by Bushie

That'd be one captain that will find it very hard to get another ship I would think.


Martyn

As a captain anyway, probably could as "the boy in the barrel".

Great pics....i'm up for a run in that tugboat incisor!

Great pictures... it certainly makes me feel sea sick just looking at them

I wonder how the did it in the old days, no engines, radars or warning systems

Originally Posted by incisor

bloody hell, she is not very old by the looks of that hull....

Maybe it's just the part of the hull that 'does not see the light of day' that looks new .

Originally Posted by Timmo

Great pics....i'm up for a run in that tugboat incisor!

Count me in to Inc, just find a nice deep low and steam straight for it. Or maybe we could take old Diamantina out, she is still fully fueled and ready to raise steam. Even better, an old Corvette like Castlemain or Rockhampton, they were supposed to roll in a mild ripple. See who chums up. And I just happen to have all the relavent steam tickets for those old girls.

I remember my first cyclone at sea as a 16 year old kid. that was a good storm. Solid green rollers coming over the forward end of the flight deck of Melbourne.

Those big bulker's, you can stand on the bridge and feel the deck going to one side, and watch the forward end rolling to the other side. It's a weird sensation.
And they wonder why the front falls off all the time.

Corvette like Castlemain or Rockhampton, they were supposed to roll in a mild ripple. See who chums up. And I just happen to have all the relavent steam tickets for those old girls.


Castlemaine is tied up at Willianstown isn't She.
I went on a tour of her with a WW2 Servicman who had served on a similar ship. My mrs wanted to know what the food on board was like.
"Oh we got 6 meals a day", he said,
"REALLY!!!" said Mrs Hymie,
"Yep, 3 down, 3 up", he said.

That's her. She was still a training ship in my recruit days. The old crews loved them and hated them at the same time.
Slow, cramped, underpowered, under gunned, overworked, the Land Rovers of the sea, the corvette.