THOMPSON 731 SHIP 1972, Sister Nordic Chieftain, both B&W 980KFF8 engines, (Crusader, Burmiester &wain, Chieftain H&W).
161,798 dwt. OBO ships for Anglo Norness. Captain Demarci, was the superintendant standing by. A young Italian gentleman with a Master's and Chief's ticket. Got wrong off James Marr for reading our Daily Mail when we were 12 on, 12 off standby, circulating hydraulics. he told Mr. Marr in no uncertain terms that he had absolutely no authority over him and sat down and continued to read. Mr. Marr was less than happy and more than embarrassed. we were just plain amused
The double bottoms and centre duct keels with cargo and bilge and ballast pipes. I and my mate Tony installed the Hydraulic pipes for all the valves on both ships, we spent most of the time in the duct keels and pump room, no better than being underground. France Fenwick are parked at the Corporation quay. and Harrisons Craftsman is at Greenwells in another picture.
Advanced stage of bottom construction, fitting shop left. What a lot of wood, what a lot of cranes.
"Daresn't and Cannot" watch a mate welding. The foreman is approaching a conscientious objector (to work), depressed because Sunderland got beat on Saturday, (nowt new there) , he spent all his pay on drink and is exhausted by his wandering around the yard raffling a ten bob note. The conscientious objector unperturbed and will say "Send me to jail, see if I care." The foreman is powerless, everyone knows it so his tactic is to talk about pigeons, leeks, horses, women or mention that Newcastle got beat as well and hope he can cheer the despondent up enough to get a half an hours work out of him sometime today. In the old days when a foreman approached you at least pretended to be busy. here the old order is evidently done.
April 1972 and the ship dwarfs the large buildings behind it. Here the reason for one cantilever crane having a jib upside down to its mate is clearly evident. Between them, the crane drivers did some extremely difficult work using this technique. Cranes on gantries along the old North sands berths handle smaller prefabricated sections, and sub assemblies.
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