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  1. New Member Introductions
    Hi y'all, I am a retired Naval Architect that worked for shipbuilders and design offices in the New Orleans area and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in USA. I grew up near Oslo, Norway, and studied Naval Architecture in Glasgow, Scotland. My main interests are history of Norwegian coast...
  2. The Engine Room
    I'm in the process of researching the SS Camlough, which was wrecked near to where I live on the coast at Monreith in Southwest Scotland. Part of the remaining stern of the vessel has been exposed by this winter's storms. On 14th January, the vessel came to rest, stranded high on rocks and...
  3. Coasters
    I've been researching the events which lead up to the stranding (and wrecking) of the SS Camlough in 1932 on a beach near where I live in Southwest Scotland. Built in 1920, the Camlough was coal-fired a 166 ft. single boiler/triple expansion engine ship, one of the fleet of 'Kelly's Coal...
  4. New Member Introductions
    Hi, born in Rotterdam in 1934, Sailed as engineer with the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd and the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company. Worked with lots of different main engines, besides the Diesel engines with turbines, triple exp.engines, Lenz valve engines and more. Ashore I worked as an industrial...
  5. BP International Hotel

    The statue in the foyer of the hotel where I stayed, dedicated to the Scout movement... based next door, which is `big` out in Hong Kong :o)
  6. Queen Zenobia

    LPG tanker in Gib on the 4th July. Daniel
  7. Nostalgia

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