Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: boatmadman on March 02, 2010, 05:00:21 pm
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The Tideway rolling stone arrived in Barrow today for the first of 4 loads of gravel to be taken out into the Irish Sea to lay for a new wind farm.
If you look closely at the superstructure front stbd, you can see the lips & tongue emblem of the Rolling Stones.
This vessel was originally the Super Servant 1.
Ian
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Forgive the ignorance, but why would anyone want to use this sort of ship to load, transport and then dump a load of gravel? Really, she isn't built for that sort of job. Or is the gravel being stuffed into something else first? Interesting though. BY.
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Guess it must have been down to making money?
Anyway, if you look here:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=245746000¢erx=-3.222283¢ery=54.09532&zoom=10&type_color=3
you can see it looks as though the gravel bunkers have been added to the tank tops.
Ian