Gramaisc
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The Herald sailed with the bow doors open and the bow ballast tanks filled, to suit the ramps it was having to use that day.It's even further down.
You would need to be doing some speed to get water into the boat above.
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You would need to be doing some speed to get water into the boat above.
BobClay
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Thing is half a metre isn’t much when you have such open spaces where it can flop around. It will tip the ship. But I’m used to ships that are heavily sectioned, and that includes enormous ships like VLCC’s (supertankers) so I get uneasy when I see open spaces like that. The sea (and physics) is unforgiving. 
Gramaisc
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Difficult to pump vehicles off a ship. It would take a long time to unload and then reload three miles of parking lanes with a crane.
The half metre is designed to be a survivable amount on a modern ship - and you're not going to be scooping it in at the rate that the Herald did. With a reasonable load of vehicles you would get quite an amount of free baffling available.
There have been events in recent years with vehicles toppling over and sliding about, on the smaller vessels and sometimes handbrake-related, but I'm unaware of any incidents involving seawater damage.
The half metre is designed to be a survivable amount on a modern ship - and you're not going to be scooping it in at the rate that the Herald did. With a reasonable load of vehicles you would get quite an amount of free baffling available.
There have been events in recent years with vehicles toppling over and sliding about, on the smaller vessels and sometimes handbrake-related, but I'm unaware of any incidents involving seawater damage.
Gramaisc
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Submarines seem to be the principal issue for the ones I use.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...ubmarine-in-nearmiss-with-ferry-37733443.html
staffordjas
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Puddles in the potholes in the newly filled in potholes on Radford bank....they are going to end up as craters again at this rate in a few weeks time.
Also....2 tractors pulling trailers , both loaded with sawn up trees which must have been hundreds of years old, leaving the old Baswich police headquarters.
Also....2 tractors pulling trailers , both loaded with sawn up trees which must have been hundreds of years old, leaving the old Baswich police headquarters.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Who could possibly have foreseen either of those things happening...
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Goldilox
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There's probably better money in that than in blues music tbh...
I can confirm that it was indeed me being confused that the address I had been given for an official rendezvous (Mellor House) did not match the signs on the building (which read "Trust Headquarters").
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
I was the 1 in light blue that asked if you were ok. Very nice to meet you at last, even if you didn't have a clue who I was or where you were!
Hope you've been booked to entertain the patients for a long time to come? x
Trumpet
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Saw on the news last week that 'the government' is calling for utility companies to guarantee their road work for five years instead of the current three years.
The Clanford Road pot holes filled in by the local authority last spring are breaking up already.
Hypocrisy? In government? Naaaa.
They've grounded all the planes for modifications.
(The mod is: They're changing the wording to PROBABLE impact with terrain.)
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
A car, on its side, in a pond, near knightly.