Service pics

No….technically I’m Welsh….no Hispanic blood whatsoever…

M

i see, you have a really distinct look, as odd as it may sound I was going to suggest Finnish next 😛

Well if ever you are down this way my friend, I’ll take you flying in one with a Lincon 180Hp engine in it, it’s rated for +6:-4

Goodness another Welshman, Body dar boyo? My other half is Welsh, If I only knew, what I should do… hehehehe.

Got any lovely coal to burn?

No….technically I’m Welsh….no Hispanic blood whatsoever…

M

Ahhhh ok well good to know that my topolgy is still up to scratch, as for the plane, I should have checked my Orbats better first, it’s a SAAB Safari, sorry!

So what were they like to fly? Comparable to our old CT-4’s?

Nice pics Vip, thanks for sharing them. The Army Pic looks like Budafoss in Norway, am I close? and the Chair flying looks like an Sk-60.

corsair, are you hispanic by any chance?

Vip, mate I don’t mind the people in the blue or Khaki so feel free to post them again, actually i’d be honoured

UPDATE: to my story on the USCGC Evergreen, at the top of this thread….had a letter from one Ivan Luke of the Coast Guard, the LAST COMMANDER of my coast guard cutter….seem the ship was sunk by the navy using Harpoon missiles without explosive tips, but the old girl just settled a bit and listed some but stayed afloat, so she was towed into Puerto Rico and patched….the next time the Navy went all out and used TWO Harpoon fully loaded anti ship missiles (Luke talked to the S-3 pilot who actually fired the sinking shot!)…this time the ‘Green’ went down and now lies, from what I’m told, at the bottom of the Puerto Rican trench….interesting story and glad to be able to pass it on…..
M

Anyway are there anymore people out there that have service pics, surely there must be some?

Some ports do handle her, Rotterdam for example. They also tried in Ningbo, but that s*cked, as the ship rises while she is discharging, the chicksan has to follow. But in Ningbo, the chicksan couldn’t follow, so they had to fill the gale tank, cargo tank 3 with ballast to keep her low enough and even then it was still troublesome. They won’t go back to Ningbo! Most of the ops are indeed done at sea, that doesn’t take away the fact that there are still port authorities controlling that though.

Bulkers would be fun, not an option for me though.

regards and Save seas to you too, maybe you’ll get smashed with your handymax under Ti Europe’s bow one day (I promise I’ll appologize when it happens 😉 )

…what would a port authority do about it if we didn’t have that certificate???

Port,what port?I have the impression that there aren’t many (if any)ports big enough to dock this size of ships…weren’t all ops. being conducted in anchorage or ship-to-ship ?Anyway,that’s why I prefer handymaxes and panamaxes…If they are Bulkers,even better..

Regards,and safe seas dude

They are rubbish. Simple as that, some nice high tech stuff, but also some very low tech stuff. Bridge equipment is worse than what you’d expect on any very basic ship (except for the nice ECDIS of course) and the servicing equipment like pumps, pipes and engine are rubbish. But the accomodation is nice ;).

On the other hand, it does have some top and one-off systems like IG in the ballast tanks and a hydro-blast chipping system.
And I guess no ship is really made to go through a hurricane/typhoon, she acted like a b*tch in there (that’s why ships are female, they act like that when you need them the most). Although I’ve been through a typhoon on a much older ship but had lots less trouble with her.

Funny note on this, these ships have (yes, yes if you know the merchant shipping) a “bridge wing-exemption certificate”. Why the hell would one need a piece of paper to allow it not to have bridgewings. It’s not like we’ve cut them off while underway (in other words, it’s built like that and would never have been built like that if it wasn’t allowed to have short bridge stubs!) and what would a port authority do about it if we didn’t have that certificate???

Well, I’m the left spot on the starboard bridgewing :diablo:

Let me guess…You are in the one out of four 440000 mt dwt ULCCs that were made for Hellespont steamship Corp..I have heard that they are great ships,built to a very high standard…they were all sold en block for 448 mil USD !!! :dev2:

Nah mate, she was a nasty piece of work and that warm smile is aclcohol inflicted!

nice girl, warm smile.

Thanks for playing guys, sorry it’s taken me a bit to get back but I have been rather busy lately with doing pics for every man and his dog and it’s not over (I have some pics to share a little later).

Here I am with an ex girl friend at her 18th

Well, I’m the left spot on the starboard bridgewing :diablo:

I’ll throw in…here’s some of me in the Coast Guard while stationed in New London Connecticut on the cutter ‘Evergreen’, shot by a fellow crewman, Randy Gulley, who just sent them to me a few weeks ago…these were taken between ’82-’84 when I was on the ‘Green’, doing fisheries and law enforcement patrols and SAR….we made a drug bust for $32 million worth of marijuana (unloaded it ourselves….had it in my hair, my pockets…)

The ‘Green’ now lies sunk in about 15,000 ft of water off the coast of North Carolina, a victim in the 90’s of Naval gunfire and weapons tests, decommisioned in 1992. She was a good ship.

Mark

Shure, go ahead I will have to scan in some