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Printed Date: 26 March 2026 at 1:33pm
Topic: Camper Nicholson Boats
Posted By: Pioneer
Subject: Camper Nicholson Boats
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 11:36am
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An interesting statement 'tramontana' -"...if the boat sank your wages stopped promptly".. - one that I believed myself up until quite recently. According to a very long thread on the Ships Nostalgia web site (one that I would highly recommend by the way) entitled 'WW2 Tankers North Atlantic" there seems to be evidence that this was not so - an Act of Parliament, enforced at the beginning of the hostilities, had changed the Peace Time arrangement that gave Ship owners the right to stop wages etc (as used in WW1). ------------- Pioneer - Forum Moderator |
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Posted By: tramontana
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 7:50pm
I never served during the War, it was certainly something I believed happened, maybe there were variations to encourage crew to go on Tankers during the War years, I was not a Tanker Engineer, however I did do a trip on the first purpose built Gas Turbine powered Cargo Boat which was interesting, as you know at one time gas turbines were going to be the power plants of the future and they were fitted into just about everything, Cars(remember the Rover), trains, buses as well as a Formula1 car. The problem with G.T.s in small craft is SALT and the more filtration you put in the less power comes out, air intakes need to be as high as practicable. The G.T powered "Wally" boat has had problems I believe, her intake pods are on the side of the hull like a phantom jet!!! BARKING. Still we made it across to the States which is more than the demonstration R.N.Tribal Class which was sent to the States did, she had a lovesick/homesick Sprog on board who put sand in her shaft bearing oil boxes and she stopped about 500mls into the Atlantic and had to be towed back home!
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Posted By: Magic Fingers
Date Posted: 07 October 2007 at 11:04am
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I'll go along with a Merchant Navy page. About the time I left tankers in the seventies, three super tankers had explosions while tank cleaning and experiments were under way to fit gas turbines on deck using the exhaust to gas free the tanks. The Butterworth system that was the norm in those days created a weather system in the large tanks and internal lightning strikes were causing the explosions. Happy days! Richard.
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