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Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« on: November 06, 2006, 10:16:20 pm »
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2006, 10:57:22 pm »
Maybe the Navy could buy a couple of these and convert them to aircraft carriers. Save a lot of money and wrangling over the design. Only one engine though...
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2006, 08:28:18 pm »
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Only one engine though...

Yes, but it's the biggest in the world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-C
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2006, 08:41:03 pm »
How about that in a tug towing competition? ;)
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2006, 09:36:22 pm »
For some reason Maersk don't admit to true capacities of there ships, I have it from a reliable source that the Emma Maersk is at least 13,000 TEU capacity.
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2006, 09:50:46 pm »
I think that is correct but I believe that Maersk do not propose loading her beyond 11,000 TEU as a matter of policy.
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2006, 11:41:32 pm »
Do you think it might need some ballast on the stern as the prop seems rather high out of  water
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2006, 11:52:17 pm »

Stavros

I think it probably needs 8000 full ISO containers as ballast?  ;D ;D ;D

They reckon that there are 6 more of these on the slips due to be launched in 2007.  Can you just imagine the cost to LLoyds if any one of these goes to the bottom, God forbid?

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2006, 08:15:22 am »
Martin,

Thats a big model mate, who are you going to get to help you carry that one around.... ;D ;D ;D



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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2006, 04:48:36 pm »
Just think of making up all those containers - Job for life  ??? ???
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2006, 04:59:04 pm »
Berthed in Harwich last weekend, very impressive. Loaded with mp3 players and the like for Christmas from the far east.

Will take three full 24 hour days to unload her!
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2006, 06:06:14 pm »
If I have got my maths right, then here are the scale lengths for a model.....

1/24     16.63m     655inches
1/25     15.97m     628.3inches
1/48     8.315m     327.5inches
1/72     5.54m       218.3inches

Some model eh but what a challange, would make a nice club project.

Food for thought

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2006, 07:56:38 pm »
Man thats big!!

Just been looking at the stats for the engine. A whopping 25,480 litres!!! ??? ??? Get some Tesco points providing the fuel for that beastie
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2006, 10:13:53 am »
boy the danes like 'em big- imagine all the lego coming in on that mother !
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2006, 09:23:07 pm »
Quote from: Malc Reade on November 07, 2006, 11:52:17 pm
They reckon that there are 6 more of these on the slips due to be launched in 2007.

Hopefully Gordon Brown has ordered the other 5 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::) ::) ::)

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2006, 10:57:26 pm »
Quote from: Guy Bagley on November 10, 2006, 10:13:53 am
boy the danes like 'em big- imagine all the lego coming in on that mother !

you could probably hold a disco INSIDE THE CYLINDER, using the piston as the dancefloor!
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2007, 12:50:47 pm »

"The Emma Mærsk is about six–seven weeks delayed. The delay was caused by a devastating fire in the accommodation quarters in the early days of June. A welding job on the main deck, close to the end of working hours, led to a fire that totally destroyed the almost finished accommodation quarters and all the equipment in the wheelhouse. Shipyard Baltija at Klaipeda – where the accommodation quarters were built and equipped – had to speed up the process and then Emma Mærsk was shipped to Odense. Two Dutch floating cranes shifted the quarters in mid July. The old, burnt out quarters were sold to the nearby recycling company H. J. Hansen for demolition." - http://www.shipgaz.com/magazine/issues/2006/16/1606_article.php

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2007, 04:50:36 pm »
O.K. It's silly question time.

Could someone please tell me what a TEU is?
So far I have come up with Totally Enormous Unit and Two's Enough for Us

Help

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2007, 05:15:24 pm »

GOOD question Clegg!
I've often just overlooked it because I just knew it was something to do with containers but apparently;
TEU = Twenty-foot Equivalent Units

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2007, 06:48:56 pm »
Thank you Martin,

Second silly question; What does a twenty foot equivalent unit refer to? is it length, height or is it (as I suspect) a mythical unit used to calculated the loading. As in a TEU is the equivalent of two minis or 20,000 eggs or a pop star's ego? ;D

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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2007, 07:06:14 pm »
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2007, 10:27:17 pm »
Conventional 20' container ..... 1 x TEU .... well two actually  ;D


For more info - http://www.containersforsale.co.uk/csuk_gallery.html
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2007, 10:36:04 pm »
Is that your workshop Martin?  ::)
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Re: Emma Maersk - Look at the size of that!
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2007, 10:51:44 pm »
No but one would be nice... with a few flower around it to disguise it a bit!
Nice and secure!
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