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#Post#: 86707--------------------------------------------------
Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: linesrg Date: March 28, 2014, 5:23 pm
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Good Evening All,
I'm currently serving as Master on Chevron's almost 18 year old
Class 1 DP shuttle tanker Aberdeen having spent the best part of
the last 30 years on various things that float in the North Sea
or WoS.
Regards
Richard
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: SteamPunk Date: March 28, 2014, 6:05 pm
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Pleased to meet you all :) I'm a 4E, having come into the
profession recently after finding it difficult to settle into a
desk career post uni. (For non MN, at 26 I'm old for my job)
BP shipping has not long gotten rid of our last DP ship, the
Loch Rannoch, which was on shuttle tanker duties in the North
Sea. No DP ships left in the owned fleet now.
I did one trip on a container ship only a couple of years back,
UASC's MV Najran and that sure as hell wasn't like what I have
now. I still have a cracked tooth and a thumb that won't bend
properly to show for it :smile1. [Incidentally, that had the
biggest engine I have ever worked on, an 800mm bore Man B&W and
I don't remember the piston rod being anywhere near as girt as
that one chally2, what's that from?]
gp3, your description matches my last chief to a T, over 45
years at sea with the knowledge, temper, scars and moustache to
prove it ::)
As regards cleanliness, this ship is only 12 years old and we
get a decent crew size. In the ER we have three oilers, a
fitter, two fourths and then one of each up to the Chief.
So we have two oil and two water, two ex and two serving ( at
polar opposites of the spectrum, it must be said :) ) Anybody
else out there? Serving or Ex; Any nationality, MN/RFA, RN,
Fisherman, floating army, RNLI or something else?
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: linesrg Date: March 29, 2014, 10:23 am
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Good Afternoon All,
I was C/O for two years on the Rannoch and then Master for
three.
Regards
Richard
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: SteamPunk Date: March 29, 2014, 10:43 am
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[quote author=linesrg link=topic=7864.msg86720#msg86720
date=1396106604]
I was C/O for two years on the Rannoch and then Master for
three.
[/quote]
On my final cadet trip I met Rob, who had been one of the CEs on
the Rannoch, he said that when she went most of the ships
company had preferred to stay in the North Sea rather than stay
with the company. Makes sense to me, hell of a lifestyle change
to suddenly go back to three months away at a time, especially
if you have a family to worry about.
Did you take her out to the Gulf of Mexico? :rolleye0012:
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: guest13 Date: April 6, 2014, 3:51 pm
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That's impressively clean, :eek:
wish my plant looked anything like that clean
#Post#: 86979--------------------------------------------------
Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: chally2 Date: April 7, 2014, 2:36 am
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That pistons is from a loop scavenge B&W. Old under powered
things. This particular ship had two slow speed diesels 10 cyl
each. Very small in comparison to the Sulzer 12RTA on the newer
ships. I believe there are bigger engines now but at the time
it was the biggest diesel engine in the world.
I did 7 years with P&O Nedloyd before joining the Army.
#Post#: 87424--------------------------------------------------
Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: moley Date: April 21, 2014, 7:46 pm
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Evening all,
Not yet in the but i'm applying as we speak to the Merchant Navy
as a Engineer Cadet as we speak. I've got a interview on the 2
May.
One of the questions I was asked to prepare for my interview
was, What type of ship would you prefer to serve on? i.e
Contain, bulk haulage etc. I'm more intrested on working on
Containers/bulk carriers rather than Cruise ships.
Is there a type of ship you guys advise to stay away from? Or if
offered a certain type to get into.
If asked I'd say Container ship as more likey to go futher
afield.
Tom.
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: gp3trainee Date: April 23, 2014, 11:14 am
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Moley said:
"Not yet in the but i'm applying as we speak to the Merchant
Navy as a Engineer Cadet as we speak. I've got a interview on
the 2 May.
One of the questions I was asked to prepare for my interview
was, What type of ship would you prefer to serve on? i.e
Contain, bulk haulage etc. I'm more intrested on working on
Containers/bulk carriers rather than Cruise ships.
Is there a type of ship you guys advise to stay away from? Or if
offered a certain type to get into.
If asked I'd say Container ship as more likey to go futher
afield. "
Good luck with the interview, Moley.
I've been ashore for some time now so am a bit out of touch but
I'd suggest that you, as a potential engineer cadet answering
the question, should give weight to the type of engineering
experience you'll get.
For your interview, you should probably play down the idea of
foreign travel being a motivator. In some outfits and on some
trips, you might see a fair number of ports. On others
(containers for example) you're likely to only be in port for a
short while but, believe it or not, there are benefits to that.
You should probably indicate that you're interested in as wide a
range of ship sizes and types as possible, so that you'll learn
the job from lots of different angles, under different operating
conditions, with different engine types, and so build up your
experience. Might help if you do a bit of digging on the
internet as to the sort of machinery fitted in modern ships.
Don't forget, a lot of commercial vessels can last up to 25-30
years so there's a fair amount of oldish stuff out there.
Depends on which company you do your cadetship with.
The current and ex-engineers on here might be able to give you
better advice.
Best advice I can give you, though, is to ignore any moaning old
gits who tell you that the job's crap now and not as good as it
used to be. I first went to sea nearly 40 years ago and, in my
first five minutes on my first ship as a deck cadet, I had a
load of old tossers asking me why the hell I'd bothered to come
to sea because the job was crap and not like it was when they
were lads. No doubt, the same was being said to them when they
first went to sea in the 1940's. Ignore the bastards and enjoy
your new career.
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Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: chally2 Date: April 23, 2014, 11:55 am
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When my Granddad went to sea he got months in port (bulk)
When my Dad went to sea he got weeks in port (bulk)
When I went to sea I got hours in port (container)
The turn around is so quick it's almost impossible to get a beer
ashore.
If your wallet can take the hit (almost half the pay) go cruise
as you can shag the cargo and that would make a 4 month trip go
very fast.
To give them a bullshit answer think about what type of engines
you prefer.
#Post#: 87479--------------------------------------------------
Re: (Fairly) Modern Steam and Ship Phots.
By: SteamPunk Date: April 23, 2014, 1:07 pm
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Hi Moley
As you may have gathered I'm fairly new to this as well and I'm
loving it - and I've done a lot of other stuff to compare it
against. As gp3trainee said, people aboard will ask you why you
are doing it. In return, ask yourself why they are still doing
it after 20-30 years (in some cases), jobs ashore are easy to
get! :)
There is too much that could be said to do it here! I'm ashore
just now so if you fancy a chat then drop me a line,
mark.brett@live.co.uk
As regards ship types, it depends who is interviewing you. It
doesn't matter too much who you do your cadetship with so tell
them you like their kind best (with convincing reasons why ready
to hand). If you get a better offer its ok to turn them down
later. :thumbs:
I didn't fancy cruise liners either and those I know that do
like 'em are not there because they have a good professional
work ethic :rolleye0012:
What shipping type you prefer will depend on what you want out
of your career and people often move from type to type as other
pressures in their lives dictate.
If you have not yet done so I would urge you to research
tankers, rig support vessels and special purpose ships (cable
layers, heavy lift, buoy tenders, AHTS, dive boats etc). I would
advise trying to come out of your cadetship with oil/gas,
special tasking or DP experience. Make sure you have some
understanding of what you might find in a Main Machinery Space
(don't worry about steam ships at this stage, rare as rocking
horse shit)
HTML http://www.marineengineering.org.uk/
Seriously, drop me a line. No worries :smile1
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