[BITList] Fwd: Bulk Carrier Runs Over Cargo Ship inSingaporeStraits [VIDEO] | gCaptain - Maritime & Offshore News

[M.j. Feltham]

Reminds me of the old days, Manchester Liners installed Recorders in the wheelhouses, so if the Old Man was sounding off about the Company to the Pilot, they had to leave the Wheelhouse !

Mike
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On 4 Mar 2013, at 16:33, "Malcolm" <malcena2 at uwclub.net> wrote:

> Hugh,
> 
> I do not know if merchant cargo ships have video aids but I know that the
> ferry "Pride Of Bilbao" was the largest ferry in Britain during the 15 years
> that I sailed in her 4 times a year, it had  cameras forward and aft and
> port and starboard high up and low. It had altogether 6 TVs on the bridge so
> they could see everything. The low port and starboard cameras for docking at
> the quay.
> 
> Malcolm. 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Lookouts? you asked. Evidently none on the bulk carrier, and how the cargo 
> ship managed to turn to port across the bows of the other without seeing the
> 
> bloody thing defeats me.  Steering jammed to port?
> 
> Hugh. 
> 
> 
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