Beaching an old ferry for dismantling

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I've always wondered how they do that.

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Vortex11
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Cue Mark Knopfler, "So far from the Clyde"

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newshound

Nothing wrong with the engines or steering, then. It looked like it had years of life left in it.

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GB

Could have given it to Indonesia to run boat people to Australia.

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F Murtz

What wouldn't show is the way that the hull could have been like an eggshell, and the engines were horribly polluting and inefficient by modern standards. She'd been operated for many years by one of the more notoriously corner cutting operators in the Mediterranean after being sold and replaced by P&O, so maintenance had probably been little and seldom.

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John Williamson

You must be confusing her with another ship. She was in P&O service until October 2012. In December 2012 they leased her out for three years to Transeuropa Ferries, who went bankrupt in April 2013. The beaching was in November 2013.

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Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

Aye, we've done the Dover-Calais crossing in that very ferry many times, sad to see it go really.

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Steve

Or misremembering what I read last time I looked this up when the video surfaced on another forum.

I do remember travelling on her, and she was a much more friendly ship than the new ones.

Mind you, at 28 years old, she'd done a *lot* of service, and was looking and feeling tired at the end of her service with P&O.

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John Williamson

I wouldn't know about the newer ships. Once the tunnel opened, I stopped crossing by ferry.

Ships can go on for a lot longer than that:

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Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

Can last longer doesn't mean must last longer. live on a boat that's over 40 years old, and my next door neighbour's s possibly over a Century old. The guy that delivers the coal and other fuel here uses a boat that's well into its second century.

Having said that, the Pride of Calais was showing signs of coming to the end of her economic life last time I sailed on her.

Shipping companies can be very unsentimental about ships.

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John Williamson

Pah. I see your 1948 and raise you a ...

... 1946. I thought she was much older than that!

Andy

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Vir Campestris

Even if the ship was a bit scruffy for the Channel run, you'd have thought somebody would have found a use for a working boat?

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GB

In message , John Williamson writes

I read some where that the rule of thumb is that you scrap a ship when the running costs exceed the scrap value.

Adrian

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Adrian

The Russians still have a ship from the Czars navy in service, Her specialised role is mainly responsible for her survival. There was a site somewhere which had greater details of her long career but I can no longer find it, so this link above will have to do.

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They tried to withdraw it a few years ago from their Navy and give it away but nobody took it on so they still use it.

G.Harman

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damduck-egg

and the RN still has a ship from the Napoleonic Wars in service .....

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charles

Me too. Although my point about MV Azores is that she has been refitted and updated to keep her as a modern working ship, rather than being a preserved vessel.

Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

does dry dock count as "in service".

The Yanks have the USS Constitution afloat - keel laid in 1794. Quite an incredible piece of history. It managed to outrun a Royal Navy ship in becalmed waters in 1812 by taking the anchor our with a dingy and then pulling along, rinse and repeat for 57 hours !

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Jethro_uk

FSVO of service as a glorified flagpole and tourist attraction,Physically it is not directly under the navy anymore having been hived off to a Quango. As a tourist destination and a place to hold a posh dinner it is fine, but it isn't capable of doing the basic thing it was built for and hasn't done for years. There any number of old vessels in museum status like that around the globe but vessels still doing capable of floating and work that are several decades old are much rarer especially larger ones that need to meet international regulations that have become increasingly stringent. It's harder to pass on old ship to the third world than it used to be.

Until a couple of years ago this old one was still operating but regulations finally caught up with it.

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G.Harman

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damduck-egg

Until recently, the Royal Navy's second oldest serving ship was HMS Caroline, a 1914 light cruiser. She was latterly a RNVR training ship, until the RNVR unit relocated to a stone frigate in 2009 and she was decommissioned in 2011. She is still afloat in Belfast and the National Lottery has provided funding for conversion to a museum.

Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

There was another survivor of Trafalgar that survived floating till

1949. The Duguay Troine was a French ship captured in the aftermath of the battle and becoming HMS Implacable when put in RN service. In the austerity of post WW2 nobody was able to take on what by then was a vessel needing a lot of attention,even the French turned down the offer to have her back. So she was scuttled in the channel under the ensigns of both countries while dignitaries looked on. The RN with the efficiency they are well known for when allowed to play by themselves placed too powerful charges which blew off the bottom of the hull, being wooden the rest was still floating long after the dignitaries had gone home. Some bits are supposed to have floated home to shores of France. Newsreel footage.
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G.Harman

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damduck-egg

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