Posted on 3/18/2005, 8:10:45 PM by Fierce Allegiance
Crews cleaning up lumber that fell from boat into the water - Tina Detelj
New London-WTNH, Mar. 18, 2005 12:10 PM ) _ Crews have a real mess on their hands at the State Pier in New London. They're trying to clean up lumber that fell from a boat into the water.
News Channel 8's Tina Detelj What happened is that cargo on the ship Calabria shifted while it was at sea. Apparently it hit some very rough seas, enough to knock some lumber off the ship and break the lashings which tie the bundles together.
Today the Stevedoring Company at the State Pier, which is the company that unloads the ship, decided to let the loose bundles fall off into the Thames River. This way they were able to stabilize the loads left on the ship. There is a boom set up to contain the lumber once it falls and a crane to collect it.
News Channel 8 has been told this is a rare occurrence but it does happen sometimes and they are prepared to deal with it.
To give you an idea of how much lumber is in the river, about six bundles fell off the ship which carries more than 400 total. The lumber is untreated so there is no environmental concerns.
What this will do, however, is delay the ship's trip. Instead of taking two days to unload it will take about three. Folks at the State Pier say there is another ship in the outer harbor waiting to come in.
I'm sure some of the boards are broken from their fall, but is this a real Breaking News story? LOL...
WTNJ News needs to fire the person that writes their headlines.
It's not exactly a NYPost, agreed.
How'd you like to explain this?
LOL!!!
I've never seen that plane engine one!
In regard to the second one, that sucks!
Damn, that would really suck!
LOL.....yeah is this like the same as "morning wood"...DUH? breaking news: I found trees grow better in dirt
Caption for the middle pic....."I'm not calling the boss. YOU call the boss...."
just curiuos; does anybody know why the big bulb in the bow below the waterline?
WWII, February of 1942.
French Liner Normandie, burning and sinking at the Manhatten docks.
When France surrendered, the US "kept" this very new, very fast liner because they were one of the only means of shipping troops overseas, and the US/Britain didn't want the ship lost to Germany's war machine. (Legally, it became German property.)
But during refit and conversion, a fire of "very suspicious origin," (sabotague almost certainly!), started in a pile of rags, and the whole ship burned. Fighting the fires (the wrong way!) flooded the ship on one side, and it rolled over at the dock -
These events lost the ship, the docks, the warehouses next to the dock, and the cranes and port facilities... Plus, the ship had to be re-floated, towed and salvaged: All a tremendous waste of time and effort. - Equal to a successful bombing raid on NY City by Germany.
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