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Topic: Britanis sinking
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gohaze
First Class Passenger Posts: 531
From:Vancouver.BC
Registered: Sep 99
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posted 12-21-2000 10:36 PM
   
Hi...some good shots at http://home.worldonline.co.za/~snai/brit-sinking.html  ...peter
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Rex
First Class Passenger Posts: 399
From:Philadelphia PA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 09:09 AM
That's sad...but wasn't the BELOFIN/BRITANIS like, 70 years old?IP: Logged |
Barryboat
First Class Passenger Posts: 707
From:Bloomington, Minnesota (Home to the Mall of America)
Registered: Mar 99
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posted 12-22-2000 10:27 AM
What great pictures...not too often you see a ship like that sinking. Too bad there were no photos of SeaBreeze actually going down. Sad to see this though. I remember walking the decks of that ship and marveling at the classic design. IP: Logged |
Peter P
First Class Passenger Posts: 173
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Registered: Sep 99
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posted 12-22-2000 01:18 PM
These pics are almost too good to be true.Those ships must have insurance. If I were from insurance company I would put my own man to control ships on their last voyage as it seems these days they tend to to sink on when doing last voyage. IP: Logged |
desirod6
First Class Passenger Posts: 139
From:philadelphia, pa
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by Peter P:
I would put my own man to control ships on their last voyage as it seems these days they tend to to sink on when doing last voyage.
Britanis's hull looked pretty rusty under the waterline  Fortunately no one was injured or drown. IP: Logged |
Draikar
First Class Passenger Posts: 118
From:New York, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 03:37 PM
Wow, I never seen a vivid sinking like that. It looks like she was going to fall on her side but at the end she stuck up strait almost. I guess it was because the watertight doors were open ? I know she had no power and the owners were trying ideas on how to save her like using generators to power the pumps.IP: Logged |
andizz
First Class Passenger Posts: 52
From:Sydney, NSW, Australia
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 06:20 PM
were there any passengers aboard at the time of sinking?
im guessing no, as none of the lifeboats were lowered, like on the seabreeze.IP: Logged |
PauloMestre
First Class Passenger Posts: 226
From:Alhos Vedros, Setubal, Portugal
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 12-22-2000 06:33 PM
quote:
Originally posted by andizz:
were there any passengers aboard at the time of sinking?
im guessing no, as none of the lifeboats were lowered, like on the seabreeze.
There weren't any passenger or crew onboard since she was being taken to a scrapyard in India.
She already had a problem like this near Brazil were she docked for temporary repairs.
Outside Capetown she sprung a leak that proved to be fatal causing her to become the newest artificial reef in the South Atlantic. Regards Paulo Mestre IP: Logged |
nevadaflip
First Class Passenger Posts: 20
From:Minden, NV, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-23-2000 12:24 AM
How sad to see a great ship in her last throes. I sailed as a Jr Purser on this ship in 1963 when she was the Matsonia, of Matson Lines, sailing their wonderful 10 day service from San Francisco/Los Angeles to and from Honolulu.Perhaps resting in the sea is a more fitting end than being picked apart by pieces on the beach in India. Jerry
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Malcolm
Cruise Director Posts: 2775
From:London (UK-Birth place of many of the worlds greatest ships)
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posted 12-23-2000 07:21 AM
Gohaze, what fantastic, but sad, pictures! I know that they are real, but they look more like a 'special effect' from a Hollywood movie!Thanks for sharing  Below, 'World Discovery' from the same Web Site:  [This message has been edited by Malcolm (edited 12-23-2000).] IP: Logged |
Malcolm
Cruise Director Posts: 2775
From:London (UK-Birth place of many of the worlds greatest ships)
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posted 02-08-2001 06:31 PM
Due to the dubious circumstances under which Britanis was lost an inquiry into the sinking was held. It has been stated that she left Tampa under tow with numerous ports and windows open, and possibly her watertight doors as well. After the sinking, the tug that had been towing her seems to have disappeared with all of the documentation aboard, and did not return to her berth at Cape Town. This gave rise to allegations that the crew had in some way been responsible for the loss of the liner.IP: Logged |
Jesse C
First Class Passenger Posts: 134
From:Houston, Texas, United States of America
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-11-2001 10:54 PM
Travelpage did have two pictures of the SS Seabreeze. One, you saw it tilting a bit. Two, I saw water up to the lifeboats.IP: Logged |
