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Re: Rolling Cruise Ship
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Jul 26, 22:51 -0500
Cars on car carriers are chained in place with pretty heavy chains (3/8
or 1/2", if I recall correctly), so that carrier must have gone through
some pretty heavy weather to break the cars loose.
Lu Abel
FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> And did you see the photos of the 650-foot long car-carrier "Cougar Ace" in
> the North Pacific? It rolled over on its side but it's afloat and apparently
> stable. For this one, I'm betting a significant portion of its 4800 car cargo
> came loose in heavy seas and settled on the port side.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 Jul 26, 22:51 -0500
Cars on car carriers are chained in place with pretty heavy chains (3/8
or 1/2", if I recall correctly), so that carrier must have gone through
some pretty heavy weather to break the cars loose.
Lu Abel
FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> And did you see the photos of the 650-foot long car-carrier "Cougar Ace" in
> the North Pacific? It rolled over on its side but it's afloat and apparently
> stable. For this one, I'm betting a significant portion of its 4800 car cargo
> came loose in heavy seas and settled on the port side.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
>
>
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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