Douglas Newman wrote: > [...] it is also the 39th > anniversary of the launching of QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 at > John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
Ironically enough, I was there to see the last craft launched from the construction docks at Clydebank in 1994 or 1995. At least that was the story then. Someone may have reopened the construction docks since, but the shutdown was huge news around Clydebank, Glasgow, and environs at the time. I say last "craft" instead of last "ship" because the last seagoing craft launched was a North Sea oil rig. I've got photos of it somewhere. I was doing a computer system installation a couple of miles downriver at a then new hospital that was right on the banks of the Clyde. The thing was so big that it seemed like they only had a couple or three meters of clearance to the banks. They had to time their transit to open water to the low tide. At one bridge in particular, they pulled up short and held position and the captain of the lead tug (5-7 were working that thing downriver) stared down at the waters of the Clyde until that momentary pause when the tide reverses. Then all of the tugs laid on every ounce of engine they had and ripped the rig under the bridge as fast as they could. Quite an impressive show, all around. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
