Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.

It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.

There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.

Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.

In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.

In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.

In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.

Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.

Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.

The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.

Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.

Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.

John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives

This 8-wheeler Mack agitator/concrete mixer operated by Boral was seen by chance near Sydney airport at Mascot in August 1991.

I'm fairly certain this is an 'MBR' model and although it's not great on styling, it still has a certain charm and I don't recall seeing another model like this anywhere in Australia during my visit that year.

Fenella and Mary, Aged Agitators, Bristol, August 2020.

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This villa was built in the 18th century on one of the most beautiful places on earth with a killer view! Only this view will add a million dollars to the price of these grounds. It was built by a wealthy baron who built it as his summer house. When the baron left, rumours say that the villa was owned by anarchists, Utopians and agitators. At one time even they left and currently the place is awaiting to be bought. Probably for some several millions…

Visited this location during our Italy Tour 2013

       ...♪♫♪♪ ► ( he lives )

the annoying ones were satisfied,

the malefactor was dying.

the social conscience was calm,

the agitator was dying.

the religious conscience was in peace,

the provocative of the religion was dying.

everything,

everything could be like it was,

the renovating one was dying.

and Christ continues dying:

in our streets,

in europa,

in Latin america,

in middle east,

in japan,

in our fields,

in the offices and factories,

in the families,

in the churches,

right here,

and right now.

                                               ܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇܇

los molestos estaban satisfechos,

el malhechor estaba muriendo

la conciencia social estaba tranquila,

el perturbador estaba muriendo

la conciencia religiosa estaba en paz

el provocador de la religión estaba muriendo

todo,

todo podía quedar como estaba,

el renovador estaba muriendo.

y Cristo sigue muriendo:

en nuestras calles,

en europa,

en america latina,

en el medio oriente,

en japón,

en nuestros campos,

en las oficinas y fábricas,

en las familias,

en las iglesias,

aquí mismo,

y en este instante

   ₪₪₪₪₪₪₪₪₪₪   el hombre de aquel viernes

                       (euler pompeu)

y un enorme agradecimiento a Neils Oscategui y su equipo:

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por incluirme en sus publicaciones

un honor, mi amigo

৹

Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.

It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.

There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.

Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.

In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.

In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.

In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.

Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.

Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.

The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.

Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.

Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.

John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives

Protesting white parents and students gather outside Poolesville Elementary school September 5, 1956 to call for a boycott on the first day of integration of Montgomery County’s Poolesville school.

Two years after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation of public schools by race, Montgomery County, Md. began a phased integration of its schools. In the upper county area this meant sending 14 select, upper grade black students to the K-12 school in Poolesville.

The integration effort went on without organized opposition throughout the rest of the county, but staunch segregationists organized a school boycott and a series of demonstrations and protest meetings in an attempt to halt black students from attending the all-white school in Poolesville.

On that first day of classes about 150 parents gathered outside the school to encourage the students and other parents to keep their children out of school. About 300 children were held out on the first day.

One woman in the crowd shouted out, “We oughta make so much noise that they can’t teach.”

School principal Robert T. Crawford estimated that about 173 of 340 elementary students were absent and 125 of the 260 pupils in the high school were not in class.

The 14 black students, all assigned to the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, were escorted into the school by police and teachers.

One of the organizers of the boycott was Everette Severe of the Maryland Petition Committee, a white supremacist group seeking a referendum vote to block integration of schools throughout the state.

Severe a well-known white supremacist having written letters to newspapers opposing integration and speaking at pro-segregation rallies. He lived in Kensington, Md. and did not have children.

Severe told the crowd outside the school, “We’re not supposed to send our kids to school until we have a hearing. Keep your kids out of school every day this week.”

Severe circulated a petition to demand a hearing on the issue. It said in part that the admission of the black students placed “in serious jeopardy” the “security and welfare” of their children.

Severe also helped organize a meeting of the segregationists at a Poolesville hall that night where they vowed to continue the fight.

Previous to the Poolesville boycott Severe on September 3rd told a Charlottesville, Va. rally opposed to integration that the people “are the law of the land, not the Supreme court.”

The day before Montgomery County schools opened, Severe attended a white supremacist meeting in Wayson’s Corner to urge a boycott of Anne Arundel County schools telling the crowd that the U.S. Supreme Court decision was invalid because, “Their total legal background hardly adds up to one good country lawyer.”

He called for an organization to halt integration adding, “God grant that it will happen quickly.”

The Poolesville group attempted to keep pressure on the school board to hold a hearing by staging a march on the county seat in Rockville.

On September 7, 1956, county police disbanded a gathering of about 60 people at 10:30 p.m. assembled at Jefferson Street beside the county courthouse. The march was called in an attempt to spread the school boycott beyond Poolesville.

The white supremacists kept up picketing at the school through the week, but attendance began to rise and by Friday had reached 70 percent. School superintendent Edward Norris warned that school officials' patience with the protesters was wearing thin and that Maryland law may be used against the parents.

The law called for a $20 fine, a 30-day jail term or both for disturbing public school sessions. Another section carried a $50 fine for inducing or trying to induce absenteeism.

By September 12th, attendance at the school had reached 582 students or about 90 percent when normal absenteeism was accounted for.

The county announced that three road workers had been suspended 10 days without pay for participating in the protests during working hours.

The school board, which had been resisting any meeting with the segregationists, agreed to grant an audience to hear specific objections to the integration policy, but not a challenge to the overall plan.

Meanwhile at a meeting at the Poolesville town hall that evening, 100 adults met and agreed to send their children back to school while they organized private schooling for their children.

Severe had problems of his own. He was suspended from his job by NBC radio over his public role in the protests and had his contract for part-time work for the Voice of America terminated.

There were more meetings of the dwindling number of parents participating in the boycott where calls were made to challenge the integration in court, but the boycott and organized opposition had largely dissipated.

The die-hards views were adequately expressed by parent Katherine Mills who wrote a letter to the Washington Post published October 3, 1956. Some excerpts follow.

Mills began by explaining that the segregationists “bitterly resent the treatment received at the hands of school and county authorities.”

“We resent the fact that our elected county school board not only permits Negroes to enter white schools, but actually encourages them to enter white schools.”

“I have no doubt that in the minds of some people we are pictured as a bunch of poor, ignorant yokels who’ve been carefully taught by “outside agitators” to fear and hate racial integration.”

“As a matter of fact, we do fear and hate racial integration, but our fear stems from our knowledge of local Negroes…”

“Negro parents as a whole are not so careful as their white neighbors in looking after the cleanliness and health of their children. We do not favor the joint use of school washrooms by colored and white. We just don’t want to take risks of any kind with our children.”

“The marital habits of some of our Maryland Negroes are, to say the least, very casual. They are like the marital habits of the often-divorced white persons in northern café society.”

“Of course some colored couples don’t bother with divorce, because there was no actual marriage in the first place.”

“We believe the morals of our own race are lax enough as it is without exposing our children to an even more primitive view of sex habits. Furthermore, we abhor any steps that might encourage interracial mating.”

“Until the cultural gaps between them are completely filled in, the white and colored races should not be mixed in the public schools of Montgomery County.”

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The photographer is unknown. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

This villa was built in the 18th century on one of the most beautiful places on earth with a killer view! Only this view will add a million dollars to the price of these grounds. It was built by a wealthy baron who built it as his summer house. When the baron left, rumours say that the villa was owned by anarchists, Utopians and agitators. At one time even they left and currently the place is awaiting to be bought. Probably for some several millions…

The surrounding gardens are packed with tropical plants and when we were there we heard the gardener at work some 15 meters away. I think the surrounding luxury villas make sure also this garden is kept nice and tidy. We managed to avoid the gardener and did our thing in the Mediterranean sun.

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This villa was built in the 18th century on one of the most beautiful places on earth with a killer view! Only this view will add a million dollars to the price of these grounds. It was built by a wealthy baron who built it as his summer house. When the baron left, rumours say that the villa was owned by anarchists, Utopians and agitators. At one time even they left and currently the place is awaiting to be bought. Probably for some several millions…

Visited this location during our Italy Tour 2013

River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.

These images were taken during the first week of December 2016.

Work has finished on the construction of the 'debris trap' in the river bed, opposite the Rivervale Apartments complex. This work was begun a few years ago, and halted with the creation of a pit, and the placement of (what I like to call) the 8 Dargle Dolmen stones (upright pillars) - 4 of which are immediately visible to the eye.

The ‘Debris Trap’ consists of 12 concrete elliptical shaped columns approximately 1.6m (5ft) high spaced 0.5m apart across the river channel -- essential for trapping any trees or other objects which may flow down the river in flood conditions.

To create proper foundations for the columns, the guys had to drive steel piles deep into the bed of the river. Similar to work done elsewhere. Within that waterproof chamber, they set/poured concrete to build the columns.

So, as we can see, they'd (chamfered) dressed a terrace adjacent to the pillars.

Now there are engaged in what is know as 'Hydro-seeding'.

Hydroseeding:

Hydroseeding (hydraulic mulch seeding) is the process of spraying a specially mixed slurry comprising of water, seed, hydro-mulch, fertiliser plus eco-friendly binder in just one operation. Although the optimum times to hydroseed are Spring and Autumn, with the right weather conditions hydroseeding can be carried out throughout the year.

Individual mixtures (grasses, legumes, wildflower, tree & shrub seed and sedum) can all be applied with a variety of different hydro-mulches; wood fibre, paper etc, together with organic tackifiers, fertilisers and trace elements to establish vegetation on inhospitable sites.

Additives to the hydroseed mix such as plant hormones, additional erosion control tackifier, soil amendments and microbial bacteria, enhance germination establishment to create the ideal growing environment that increases moisture retention, aids soil stabilisation, provides valuable nutrients and helps fight disease.

Looks like they're using the T-60 HydroSeeder® - 600 Gallon Working Capacity Tank.

The Finn Model T-60 Series II is the ideal 600 gallon HydroSeeder® for the landscaper or contractor who needs an economical machine for seeding smaller jobs. Coverage is up to 7200 square feet per load with seed, fertilizer and mulch in an easy, one-step process.

Private homes, ball fields, apartments, condominiums and golf course work are just a few of the ideal applications for the T-60. For a small investment you can become a one-person seeding and mulching crew.

The T-60 combines top machine performance with a clean, operator friendly design. For the maximum in mixing efficiency, the T-60 features both hydraulically controlled paddle agitator and liquid re-circulation. For operator convenience, agitator controls are at each end of the tank. A low machine profile allows for easy material loading and excellent sta bility. A large tool box in the hitch can be used for storing hose & nozzles.

Finn's powerful centrifugal slurry pump is driven by an in-line common shaft clutch, eliminating high maintenance belts and coupling. This new configuration dramatically increases output and operating pressure.

River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.

These images were taken during the second week of December 2016.

Work has finished on the construction of the 'debris trap' in the river bed, opposite the Rivervale Apartments complex. This work was begun a few years ago, and halted with the creation of a pit, and the placement of (what I like to call) the 8 Dargle Dolmen stones (upright pillars) - 4 of which are immediately visible to the eye.

The ‘Debris Trap’ consists of 12 concrete elliptical shaped columns approximately 1.6m (5ft) high spaced 0.5m apart across the river channel -- essential for trapping any trees or other objects which may flow down the river in flood conditions.

To create proper foundations for the columns, the guys had to drive steel piles deep into the bed of the river. Similar to work done elsewhere. Within that waterproof chamber, they set/poured concrete to build the columns.

So, as we can see, they'd (chamfered) dressed a terrace adjacent to the pillars.

2 days earlier we'd watched them engaged in what is know as 'Hydro-seeding'.

Hydroseeding:

Hydroseeding (hydraulic mulch seeding) is the process of spraying a specially mixed slurry comprising of water, seed, hydro-mulch, fertiliser plus eco-friendly binder in just one operation. Although the optimum times to hydroseed are Spring and Autumn, with the right weather conditions hydroseeding can be carried out throughout the year.

Individual mixtures (grasses, legumes, wildflower, tree & shrub seed and sedum) can all be applied with a variety of different hydro-mulches; wood fibre, paper etc, together with organic tackifiers, fertilisers and trace elements to establish vegetation on inhospitable sites.

Additives to the hydroseed mix such as plant hormones, additional erosion control tackifier, soil amendments and microbial bacteria, enhance germination establishment to create the ideal growing environment that increases moisture retention, aids soil stabilisation, provides valuable nutrients and helps fight disease.

Looked like they're using the T-60 HydroSeeder® - 600 Gallon Working Capacity Tank.

The Finn Model T-60 Series II is the ideal 600 gallon HydroSeeder® for the landscaper or contractor who needs an economical machine for seeding smaller jobs. Coverage is up to 7200 square feet per load with seed, fertilizer and mulch in an easy, one-step process.

Private homes, ball fields, apartments, condominiums and golf course work are just a few of the ideal applications for the T-60. For a small investment you can become a one-person seeding and mulching crew.

The T-60 combines top machine performance with a clean, operator friendly design. For the maximum in mixing efficiency, the T-60 features both hydraulically controlled paddle agitator and liquid re-circulation. For operator convenience, agitator controls are at each end of the tank. A low machine profile allows for easy material loading and excellent sta bility. A large tool box in the hitch can be used for storing hose & nozzles.

Finn's powerful centrifugal slurry pump is driven by an in-line common shaft clutch, eliminating high maintenance belts and coupling. This new configuration dramatically increases output and operating pressure.

Has all the 'Green' appearance of oxidised copper.

TEST photo for the SHIPtember poster.

Full Profile L->R. Tail, engine, antenna array, rear bridge/observation deck, repair ship, underside cannons, underside observatory/bridge, life-support modules, capital city, gravity wheel, habitats, hydroponic gardens, mini-star, gravity-free forward habitats, shuttle dock, bow storage and armory, underside canons, main bridge/observatory, Stardust Agitator starship dock.

The Stardust Settler is an interstellar traveler designed for more than 70,000 years in deep space. Estimated to travel just close to 3/4 of light speed. It carries a mini fusion star that sheds light on the ship as it travels and creates livable habitats that rotate to create gravity. The Settler carries the Stardust Agitator on its bow (capable of battle and planetary landing), two solar shuttles, four fighters, and a host of drop shuttles for emergencies and additional planetary reentry.

Figures:

Stardust Settler: 140studs or about 44"

With Agitator undocked: 117 studs or about 37"

6 total LED are placed throughout the ship- one in the star, one in the bow as a menacing "eye", three on the rear as blinking thrusters with one additional in the aft bridge. The gravity wheel spins freely through the use of a hand crank the rear of the capital city (future plans may include a motor attachment). This build was started on Aug 31st 2019 and semi-documented via Flickr, Twitch and Discord.

Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.

It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.

There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.

Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.

In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.

In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.

In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.

Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.

Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.

The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.

Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.

Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.

John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives

Mount Isa Township.

Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.

Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.

An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!

But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.

The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.

During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.

After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.

New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.

Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.

Mount Isa Mines Today.

In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.

Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.

Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.

This centre was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.

Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:

Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!

It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.

Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.

Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.

An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!

But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.

The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.

During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.

After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.

New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.

Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.

Mount Isa Mines Today.

In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.

Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.

Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.

This centre that we will walk to was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.

Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:

Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!

It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.

Mount Isa Township.

Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.

Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.

An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!

But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.

The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.

During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.

After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.

New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.

Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.

Mount Isa Mines Today.

In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.

Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.

Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.

This centre was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.

Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:

Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!

It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.

Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.

It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.

There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.

Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.

In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.

In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.

In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.

Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.

Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.

The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.

Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.

Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.

John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives

U.S. soldiers take up positions on the steps of the U.S. Capitol April 5, 1968 after being ordered into the city of Washington, D.C. by President Lyndon Johnson.

Crowds of black people throughout the city attacked businesses and set many establishments afire following the assassination of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The city exploded in anger at the news and experienced among the greatest property damage of the more than 125 cities that erupted April 4-7, 1968 and set a then U.S. record for mass arrests when more than 6,100 were detained.

Twelve died, mostly due to becoming entrapped in burning buildings and over 1,100 were injured. Property damage was extensive in a number of corridors: 14th Street NW, 7th Street NW, U Street NW, H Street NE and Nichols Ave SE (later Martin Luther King Jr. Ave) were set afire. 1,200 buildings were burned.

Washington, D.C. had been simmering before King’s assassination.

Clarence J. Brooker was shot in the back on Minnesota Ave. NE May 7, 1967 sparking protests, including a sit-in at the District Building. On May 23, 1967, two youths were shot at a playground by a police officer that sparked another round of demonstrations.

A standoff with police began August 1, 1967 when lines of officers began moving a crowd back from a burning Salas furniture store at 1307 7th Street NW. Dozens threw rocks and bottles at police who responded in turn with billy clubs.

The outbreak occurred at about 12:30 am and lasted until about 3:00 a.m. resulting in 11 fires, 50 store windows broken and 34 arrests.

The disturbance area was confined to 7th Street between K and P NW and on 13th & 14th Streets NW near U Street—two areas that would be hit hard following King’s murder.

Dozens of other cities had already experienced widespread rebellion against authority including New York, Watts and Newark along with dozens of outbreaks in smaller cities..

In the immediate aftermath of King’s assassination, 125 cities across the country experienced a social breakdown.

In Washington, D.C. mainstream black leaders such as the appointed mayor Walter Washington and singer James Brown urged black people to contain their anger and leave the streets.

Some white leaders blamed “agitators” such as Maryland Senator Daniel Brewster who called for former SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael’s arrest after Carmichael held a press conference at SNCC headquarters in D.C. and also gave a speech at Howard University calling on black people to arm themselves.

The full text of Carmichael’s press conference is here: flic.kr/p/Rqtckc

Newspapers were filled quotes from residents both black and white decrying the burning and looting.

But the tens of thousands of black people who took part had a different point of view.

Reginald Booker, a black activist primarily known for his anti-freeway work, gave his thoughts in a May 1, 1968 hearing of the appointed city council at Eastern High School on Rehabilitation of District of Columbia Areas Damaged by Civil Disorders that was later incorporated into congressional testimony on the issue.

Booker started off calling the disturbances a “revolution” and defended the property destruction and looting.

“The burning, the devastation, you can call it riots, you can call it looting. I know what black people call it and I know what I call it.”

“Any time oppressed people are so denied, and so oppressed, and the channels of the so-called usual mechanisms of dealing with these ills, if they cannot solve the problems, then black people and all other people have the right to burn and bring destruction if that alleviates their misery.”

“Does it take burning? Does it take looting? Of course, I know the people who were looting, they were only taking back what was theirs all the time.”

“I know they were taking back what was theirs because when the rebellion broke out, I was right out there in the street with my people.”

“Now, a whole lot of those hypocritical white folks, they said, ‘well, look they even burned down some of their own people so it couldn’t have been racial. They were just out to steal something.’”

“How can you steal from a crook?”

“It was pointed out recently, for example, that Safeway, on the day that welfare recipients receive checks, raise their prices.”

“Recently the Washington Post ran a series of stories on certain credit merchants on 7th Street, on how they exploit black people. How can you buy a TV that is worth $50 and end up paying $300-plus for it, and then if you don’t make all the payments it is repossessed and the man sells it over about 10 times again?”

Press reports indicated that certain businesses were clearly targeted, including Safeway and so-called easy credit businesses.

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk4zGPDw

The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.

An Air Force security truck and agitator.

Mack Metroliner 8x4 agitator passing VCAT, an unelected tribunal that seems to have more power than the elected politicians.

German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, no. A 3526/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Wesel / Tobis.

Austrian theatre and film actor Ferdinand Marian (1902-1946) is best known for playing the leading character of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß (1940).

Ferdinand Marian was born as Ferdinand Haschkowetz in Vienna in 1902. His father was a bass player and his mother an opera singer. Marian turned to the stage early, though he never attended any drama classes. He ran away from home and abandoned his studies as an engineer to work as an theatre extra. He started his career at the Stadttheater in Graz and later he was employed at the Münchener Kammerspiele. In 1938 he joined the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he was acclaimed for his performance as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello. In 1933, Marian made his film debut as an agitator in the Sci-Fi film Der Tunnel/The Tunnel (Kurt Bernhardt a.k.a. as Curtis Bernhardt, 1933) starring Paul Hartmann. From then on, he appeared in more films, including Ein Hochzeitstraum/A Wedding Dream (Erich Engel, 1936) with Ida Wüst, Die Stimme des Herzens/The Voice of the Heart (Karl Heinz Martin, 1937) starring Beniamino Gigli, and Madame Bovary (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1937), at the side of the legendary silent film star Pola Negri. He had his breakthrough starring together with Zarah Leander in the UFA melodrama La Habanera/Cheated by the Wind (Detlef Sierck a.k.a. Douglas Sirk, 1937). His role as Don Pedro added to his image as an adorable but devious womanizer. The following years he starred as elegant villains and ladykillers in such films as the adventure Nordlich/Northern lights (Herbert B. Fredersdorf, 1938) opposite René Deltgen, the crime film Der Vierte kommt nicht/The Fourth is not (Max W. Kimmich, 1939), and the anti-British propaganda film Der Fuchs von Glenarvon/The Fox of Glenarvon (Max W. Kimmich, 1940) with Olga Tschechowa. As Thomas Staedeli writes at Cyranos, his parts were pinned down to villains, a cliché which would determine his destiny.

Ferdinand Marian's shining career would be overshadowed by his appearance as the title character in the notorious anti-Semitic Jud Süß/Jew Süss (Veit Harlan, 1940). This film, made under the supervision of Nazi Propaganda Minister Dr. Josef Goebbels, is widely considered to be one of the most hateful depictions of Jews in film. Jud Süss is very loosely based on the historical personage of Josef Süss Oppenheimer who, in the early-18th century became a financial adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg, with the authority to collect taxes. This, naturally, did not endear him to the Duke's subjects. When Karl Alexander suddenly died, Süss was put on trial and was hanged. Several film stars had rejected the title role in the film, including Emil Jannings who had stated he was too old and too fat for the role. For a year Marian also refused to play the part, but he was afraid of the public humiliation that he might have to faced if he continued to refuse and Goebbels eventually talked him into it. According to Androom Archives: “Marian returned to his apartment, got drunk and smashed his furniture, but there was no escape anymore.” Marian’s depiction of Süss followed Nazi propaganda stereotypes of Jews as being materialistic, immoral, cunning and untrustworthy. However, he gave a well-acted, multi-layered performance, which ultimately contributed to the film's convincibility. In his excellent review of Jud Süss on Film Reference, Josef Škvorecký writes: “One of the paradoxes of this sinister film is how many participants in the violently racist project had either Jewish spouses or relatives, were disciples of Jewish artists and known friends or Jews, or had been—before the Nazi takeover—left-leaning intellectuals, even communists (such as Heinrich George, who eventually died in a Soviet concentration camp). Thus (...) Ferdinand Marian, who played the title role, had a half-Jewish daughter from his first marriage. His second wife Maria Byk had been married to a jew (the director Julius Gellner), whom Marian hid in his house.” Jud Süss was seen by more than twenty million people and sealed Marian’s fate.

Ferdinand Marian appeared in a third propaganda film, Ohm Krüger/Uncle Kruger (Hans Steinhoff, 1941) opposite Emil Jannings who played the historical president of the Transvaal and leader of the Boers during the Boer War. In 1943. Marian appeared in the non-political romantic drama Romanze in Moll/Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Käutner, 1943) about a love triangle with Marianne Hoppe and Paul Dahlke. That year he also starred as Cagliostro in the lavish fantasy spectacle Münchhausen/Baron Munchhausen (Josef von Báky, 1943) featuring Hans Albers. Other films in which he appeared during the war years were Reise in die Vergangenheit/ Travel into the past (Hans H. Zerlett, 1943), Freunde/Friends (E. W. Emo, 1944) and Die Nacht der 12/The Night of the Twelve (Hans Schweikart, 1945). After the war he fled to Austria, but he wasn't allowed to continue his career. In 1946 he seemed to get another chance when he was invited to play in Weimar. But he was warned by the Americans and hesitated to come. Ferdinand Marian died in a road accident in 1946 near the village of Dürneck (today part of Freising) in Bavaria, probably driving under the influence. It is said that he was on his way to Munich with a borrowed car to collect denazification papers that with the permission by US film officer Eric Pleskow would allow him to work again, having celebrated this news just beforehand. Other sources suggest that the accident was suicide. In 1949, soon after the trial of Veit Harlan, Marian's widow Maria Byk was found drowned in Hamburg. The 2010 film Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen/Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (Oskar Roehler, 2010) portrayed the production process of Jud Süß with Marian (played by Tobias Moretti) as the central character. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, although the film received poor reviews in Germany, reproached with factual inaccuracies, clichés and stereotypical characters.

Sources: Josef Škvorecký (Film Reference), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), The Androom Archives, Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.

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British card. Photo: London. Paul Robeson as Bosambo in Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda, 1935).

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a handsome, eloquent, and highly charismatic actor and singer, who became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. With his powerful bass singing voice, Robeson made an evergreen of the song 'Old Man River'. He starred in The Emperor Jones (1933), the first film to feature an African American in a starring role. At the height of his popularity in the 1930s, Robeson became a major box office attraction in British films. In the USA, he courted disdain and public controversy for most of his career as a staunch Cold War-era advocate for human rights, as well as his very vocal support for Joseph Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. While the backlash of his civil rights activities and left-wing ideology left him embittered and practically ruined his career, he remains today a durable symbol of racial pride and consciousness.

Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1898. His siblings were William, Benjamin, Reeve, and Marian Robeson. Their father, William Drew Robeson, was a humble Presbyterian minister and former slave. In 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of the Witherspoon church arose with apparent racial undertones. William, who had the support of his entirely black congregation, resigned in 1901. The loss of his position forced him to work menial jobs. The young, impressionable Paul grew up singing spirituals in his father's church. He was only six when he and his four siblings, William, Benjamin, Reeve, Marian, lost their mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, a schoolteacher. She was nearly blind and died in a stove fire accident at home. His father then raised the family singlehandedly. Paul was a natural athlete and the tall, strapping high school fullback had no trouble earning a scholarship to prestigious Rutgers University in 1915. At the age of 17, he became only the third member of his race to be admitted at the time. He excelled in football, baseball, basketball, and track, and field, and was the class valedictorian. In his speech, he was already preaching idealism. Paul subsequently played professional football to earn money while attending Columbia University's law school, and also took part in amateur dramatics. During this time he met and married Eslanda Cardozo Goode in 1921. She eventually became his personal assistant. Following graduation, he obtained work at a New York law firm, but quit when a stenographer refused to copy a memo, telling him, "I never take diction from a n*****." His wife persuaded him to play Simon in Ridgely Torrence's 'Simon the Cyrenian' at the Harlem YMCA in 1921. This was followed by his Broadway debut the following year as Jim in Mary Hoyt Wiborg's play 'Taboo', a drama set in Africa, which also went to London. As a result, he was asked to join the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Village theatre group that included in its membership playwright Eugene O'Neill. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "O'Neill personally asked Paul to star in his plays 'All God's Chillun Got Wings' and 'The Emperor Jones' in 1924. The reaction from both critics and audiences alike was electrifying...an actor was born." In 1925, he sang the first concert recital consisting solely of black spirituals, at the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York. That year, he also made his film debut starring in Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux, 1925). Gary Brumburgh: "a rather murky melodrama that nevertheless was ahead of its time in its depictions of black characters. Although Robeson played a scurrilous, corrupt clergyman who takes advantage of his own people, his dynamic personality managed to shine through." Radio and recordings helped spread his name across foreign waters. His resonant bass was a major highlight in the London production of Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein II's 'Show Boat'. The role of Joe, the deckhand, was written for him, but because of schedule conflicts and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s delay in putting on the show, he had been unable to star in the first stage production but played the role in London five months later. His rendition of "Ol' Man River" became the benchmark for all future performers of the song. In 1928, he made the second-ever recording of 'Ol' Man River'. (Bing Crosby did the first). Show Boat continued for 350 performances. At the time no U.S. company would hire Robeson and so, he remained in London to play the role of William Shakespeare's 'Othello' in 1930. Paul caused a slight stir by co-starring opposite a white actress, Peggy Ashcroft, who played Desdemona. After his wife Essie discovered Robeson had been having an affair with Ashcroft, she decided to seek a divorce and they split up. Around this time Robeson starred in the film Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930), a silent film that dealt strongly with racial themes. Stephen Bourne at BFI Screen-on-Line: "Black characters in American cinema of the period rarely moved beyond Al Jolson in blackface, or the dim-witted buffoons played by comedy actors like Stepin Fetchit. For the ambitious Robeson there were hardly any opportunities to play challenging roles." In 1931, he returned to the stage in the O'Neill play 'The Hairy Ape'. The following year he appeared in a Broadway revival of 'Show Boat' again as Joe, to critical and popular acclaim. In the same production, Helen Morgan repeated her original 1927 performance as the half-caste role of Julie, but the white actress Tess Gardella played the role of Queenie in her customary blackface opposite Robeson. In 1932, Ashcroft and Robeson's relationship ended. Robeson and Essie reconciled, although their relationship was scarred permanently.

Throughout the 1930s, Paul Robeson spent most of his time singing and performing in England. He also was given the opportunity to recapture two of his greatest stage successes on film: The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy, 1933) and Show Boat (James Whale, 1936), with Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, and Hattie McDaniel. His performance of 'Old Man River' in this film version of Show Boat became legendary, both for its quality and for Robeson’s purposeful changing of the lyrics "I'm tired of livin' and 'feared of dyin’" to the more activist "I must keep fightin' until I'm dying". In Britain, he played Bosambo in Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda, 1935), which he felt would render a realistic view of colonial African culture. It made Robeson an international film star. Stephen Bourne: "When Robeson became a major star in British films in the mid-1930s, he negotiated for roles that projected a positive image of a black man, roles that broke away from one-dimensional and offensive racial stereotypes. But he often found himself in conflict with an industry that glorified the British Empire and colonialism. This was certainly the case with his first commercial film, Sanders of the River (d. Zoltan Korda, 1935), one of a cycle of imperial adventures produced by Alexander Korda for London Films."Robeson also appeared in such British films as Song of Freedom (J. Elder Wills, 1936), King Solomon's Mines (Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, 1937), Jericho (Thornton Freeland, 1937), and The Proud Valley (Pen Tennyson, 1940), set in a Welsh coal-mining town. After returning to America, Robeson played a sharecropper in a segment of the Hollywood movie Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942) but, after the film was released, he was criticised for perpetuating a racist stereotype. Robeson agreed with his critics and volunteered to join protestors outside cinemas where the film was being shown. He said he wouldn't make any more films until there were better roles for blacks. During the 1930s he gravitated strongly towards economics and politics with a burgeoning interest in social activism. In 1934 he made the first of several trips to the Soviet Union and outwardly extolled the Soviet way of life and his belief that it lacked racial bias, despite the Holodomor and the later Rootless Cosmopolitan Campaign. He was a popular figure in Wales where he became personally involved in their civil rights affairs, notably the Welsh miners. Developing a marked leftist ideology, he continued to criticize the blatant discrimination he found so prevalent in America. In 1939, he premiered Earl Robinson’s multi-ethnic cantata 'Ballad for Americans' on CBS radio, which he would eventually perform in twenty-five languages. In addition to his creative work, Robeson used his personal prominence to push for social and political reform. He supported the Spanish partisans against Franco’s fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, raised funds for refugees from Hitler’s Germany well before such activities were fashionable, and organized a coalition that challenged President Truman to support an anti-lynching law in 1945. The 1940s was a mixture of performance triumphs and poignant, political upheavals. While his title run in the musical drama 'John Henry' (1940), was short-lived, he earned widespread acclaim for his Broadway 'Othello' in 1943 opposite José Ferrer as Iago and Uta Hagen as Desdemona. This production is still the longest-running non-musical production of a Shakespeare play ever to be staged in the United States, due almost entirely to Robeson's enormous popularity. He appeared in a World War II-era U.S. Government War Department propaganda film, Easy to Get, aimed at combating the spread of venereal diseases among black soldiers. In the film, Robeson appears at the end in his capacity as a celebrity football star and singer to advise viewers to stay "clean". By this time, however, Robeson was being reviled by much of white America for his outspoken civil rights speeches against segregation and lynchings, particularly in the South. A founder of the Progressive Party, an independent political party, his outdoor concerts sometimes ignited violence and he was now a full-blown target for "Red Menace" agitators. In 1946 he denied under oath being a member of the Communist Party but steadfastly refused to refute the accusations under subsequent probes. His continued support for the Soviet Union became even more controversial after Stalin publicly turned against Israel in November 1948. As a result, his passport was withdrawn and he became engaged in legal battles for nearly a decade in order to retrieve it. Adding fuel to the fire was his only son's (Paul Jr.) marriage to a white woman in 1949 and his being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. He was unable to receive it until 1958 when his passport was returned to him.

Paul Robeson was essentially blacklisted, and tainted press statements continued to hound him. He began performing less and less in America. Despite his growing scorn towards America, he never gave up his American citizenship although the anguish of it all led to a couple of suicide attempts, nervous breakdowns, and a dependency on drugs. Europe was a different story. The people continued to hold him in high regard as an artist above reproach. He had a command of about 20 languages and wound up giving his last acting performance in Tony Richardson's production of 'Othello' at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959. Although he did give a few interviews on television, he never played any dramatic or musical roles in that medium. In 1960, in what was his final concert performance in Great Britain, Robeson sang to raise money for the Movement for Colonial Freedom at the Royal Festival Hall. In October 1960, Robeson embarked on a two-month concert tour of Australia and New Zealand with Essie. While in Sydney, he became the first major artist to perform at the construction site of the future Sydney Opera House. Back in London, Robeson expressed a desire to return to the United States and participate in the civil rights movement, while his wife argued that he would be unsafe there and "unable to make any money" due to government harassment. His health suddenly took a turn for the worse and he finally returned to the United States in 1963. His poet/wife Eslanda Robeson died of cancer two years later. Double pneumonia and a kidney blockage in 1965 nearly killed Robeson too. Robeson moved in with his son's family in New York City. He remained in poor health for pretty much the rest of his life. His last years were spent in Harlem at his sister's house in near-total isolation, denying all interviews and public correspondence. At a Carnegie Hall tribute to mark his 75th birthday in 1973, he was unable to attend, but a taped message from him was played that said: "Though I have not been able to be active for several years, I want you to know that I am the same Paul, dedicated as ever to the worldwide cause of humanity for freedom, peace and brotherhood." In 1976, Paul Robeson died at age 77 of complications from a stroke. He was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Among his many honours: he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995; he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998; was honored with a postage stamp during the 'Black Heritage' series, and both a Cultural Center at Penn State University and a high school in Brooklyn bear his name. In 1995 his autobiography 'Here I Stand' was published in England in 1958. His son, Paul Robeson Jr., also chronicled a book about his father, 'Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey' in 2001. When appearing before HUAC, the Committee asked him why he didn't relocate to Russia. He replied: "Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay right here and have a part of it just like you."

Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Stephen Bourne (BFI Screen-on-Line), Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (AllMusic), Find A Grave, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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French postcard. Sent by mail in 1960. Translation of the dedication: To all my friends of L'Humanité, Paul Robeson, 4 September 1960. (L'Humanité is a French daily newspaper. It was previously an organ of the French Communist Party.)

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a handsome, eloquent, and highly charismatic actor and singer, who became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. With his powerful bass singing voice, Robeson made an evergreen of the song 'Old Man River'. He starred in The Emperor Jones (1933), the first film to feature an African American in a starring role. At the height of his popularity in the 1930s, Robeson became a major box office attraction in British films. In the USA, he courted disdain and public controversy for most of his career as a staunch Cold War-era advocate for human rights, as well as his very vocal support for Joseph Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. While the backlash of his civil rights activities and left-wing ideology left him embittered and practically ruined his career, he remains today a durable symbol of racial pride and consciousness.

Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1898. His siblings were William, Benjamin, Reeve, and Marian Robeson. Their father, William Drew Robeson, was a humble Presbyterian minister and former slave. In 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of the Witherspoon church arose with apparent racial undertones. William, who had the support of his entirely black congregation, resigned in 1901. The loss of his position forced him to work menial jobs. The young, impressionable Paul grew up singing spirituals in his father's church. He was only six when he and his four siblings, William, Benjamin, Reeve, Marian, lost their mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, a schoolteacher. She was nearly blind and died in a stove fire accident at home. His father then raised the family singlehandedly. Paul was a natural athlete and the tall, strapping high school fullback had no trouble earning a scholarship to prestigious Rutgers University in 1915. At the age of 17, he became only the third member of his race to be admitted at the time. He excelled in football, baseball, basketball, and track, and field, and was the class valedictorian. In his speech, he was already preaching idealism. Paul subsequently played professional football to earn money while attending Columbia University's law school, and also took part in amateur dramatics. During this time he met and married Eslanda Cardozo Goode in 1921. She eventually became his personal assistant. Following graduation, he obtained work at a New York law firm, but quit when a stenographer refused to copy a memo, telling him, "I never take diction from a n*****." His wife persuaded him to play Simon in Ridgely Torrence's 'Simon the Cyrenian' at the Harlem YMCA in 1921. This was followed by his Broadway debut the following year as Jim in Mary Hoyt Wiborg's play 'Taboo', a drama set in Africa, which also went to London. As a result, he was asked to join the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Village theatre group that included in its membership playwright Eugene O'Neill. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "O'Neill personally asked Paul to star in his plays 'All God's Chillun Got Wings' and 'The Emperor Jones' in 1924. The reaction from both critics and audiences alike was electrifying...an actor was born." In 1925, he sang the first concert recital consisting solely of black spirituals, at the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York. That year, he also made his film debut starring in Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux, 1925). Gary Brumburgh: "a rather murky melodrama that nevertheless was ahead of its time in its depictions of black characters. Although Robeson played a scurrilous, corrupt clergyman who takes advantage of his own people, his dynamic personality managed to shine through." Radio and recordings helped spread his name across foreign waters. His resonant bass was a major highlight in the London production of Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein II's 'Show Boat'. The role of Joe, the deckhand, was written for him, but because of schedule conflicts and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s delay in putting on the show, he had been unable to star in the first stage production but played the role in London five months later. His rendition of "Ol' Man River" became the benchmark for all future performers of the song. In 1928, he made the second-ever recording of 'Ol' Man River'. (Bing Crosby did the first). Show Boat continued for 350 performances. At the time no U.S. company would hire Robeson and so, he remained in London to play the role of William Shakespeare's 'Othello' in 1930. Paul caused a slight stir by co-starring opposite a white actress, Peggy Ashcroft, who played Desdemona. After his wife Essie discovered Robeson had been having an affair with Ashcroft, she decided to seek a divorce and they split up. Around this time Robeson starred in the film Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930), a silent film that dealt strongly with racial themes. Stephen Bourne at BFI Screen-on-Line: "Black characters in American cinema of the period rarely moved beyond Al Jolson in blackface, or the dim-witted buffoons played by comedy actors like Stepin Fetchit. For the ambitious Robeson there were hardly any opportunities to play challenging roles." In 1931, he returned to the stage in the O'Neill play 'The Hairy Ape'. The following year he appeared in a Broadway revival of 'Show Boat' again as Joe, to critical and popular acclaim. In the same production, Helen Morgan repeated her original 1927 performance as the half-caste role of Julie, but the white actress Tess Gardella played the role of Queenie in her customary blackface opposite Robeson. In 1932, Ashcroft and Robeson's relationship ended. Robeson and Essie reconciled, although their relationship was scarred permanently.

Throughout the 1930s, Paul Robeson spent most of his time singing and performing in England. He also was given the opportunity to recapture two of his greatest stage successes on film: The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy, 1933) and Show Boat (James Whale, 1936), with Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, and Hattie McDaniel. His performance of 'Old Man River' in this film version of Show Boat became legendary, both for its quality and for Robeson’s purposeful changing of the lyrics "I'm tired of livin' and 'feared of dyin’" to the more activist "I must keep fightin' until I'm dying". In Britain, he played Bosambo in Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda, 1935), which he felt would render a realistic view of colonial African culture. It made Robeson an international film star. Stephen Bourne: "When Robeson became a major star in British films in the mid-1930s, he negotiated for roles that projected a positive image of a black man, roles that broke away from one-dimensional and offensive racial stereotypes. But he often found himself in conflict with an industry that glorified the British Empire and colonialism. This was certainly the case with his first commercial film, Sanders of the River (d. Zoltan Korda, 1935), one of a cycle of imperial adventures produced by Alexander Korda for London Films."Robeson also appeared in such British films as Song of Freedom (J. Elder Wills, 1936), King Solomon's Mines (Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, 1937), Jericho (Thornton Freeland, 1937), and The Proud Valley (Pen Tennyson, 1940), set in a Welsh coal-mining town. After returning to America, Robeson played a sharecropper in a segment of the Hollywood movie Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942) but, after the film was released, he was criticised for perpetuating a racist stereotype. Robeson agreed with his critics and volunteered to join protestors outside cinemas where the film was being shown. He said he wouldn't make any more films until there were better roles for blacks. During the 1930s he gravitated strongly towards economics and politics with a burgeoning interest in social activism. In 1934 he made the first of several trips to the Soviet Union and outwardly extolled the Soviet way of life and his belief that it lacked racial bias, despite the Holodomor and the later Rootless Cosmopolitan Campaign. He was a popular figure in Wales where he became personally involved in their civil rights affairs, notably the Welsh miners. Developing a marked leftist ideology, he continued to criticize the blatant discrimination he found so prevalent in America. In 1939, he premiered Earl Robinson’s multi-ethnic cantata 'Ballad for Americans' on CBS radio, which he would eventually perform in twenty-five languages. In addition to his creative work, Robeson used his personal prominence to push for social and political reform. He supported the Spanish partisans against Franco’s fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, raised funds for refugees from Hitler’s Germany well before such activities were fashionable, and organized a coalition that challenged President Truman to support an anti-lynching law in 1945. The 1940s was a mixture of performance triumphs and poignant, political upheavals. While his title run in the musical drama 'John Henry' (1940), was short-lived, he earned widespread acclaim for his Broadway 'Othello' in 1943 opposite José Ferrer as Iago and Uta Hagen as Desdemona. This production is still the longest-running non-musical production of a Shakespeare play ever to be staged in the United States, due almost entirely to Robeson's enormous popularity. He appeared in a World War II-era U.S. Government War Department propaganda film, Easy to Get, aimed at combating the spread of venereal diseases among black soldiers. In the film, Robeson appears at the end in his capacity as a celebrity football star and singer to advise viewers to stay "clean". By this time, however, Robeson was being reviled by much of white America for his outspoken civil rights speeches against segregation and lynchings, particularly in the South. A founder of the Progressive Party, an independent political party, his outdoor concerts sometimes ignited violence and he was now a full-blown target for "Red Menace" agitators. In 1946 he denied under oath being a member of the Communist Party but steadfastly refused to refute the accusations under subsequent probes. His continued support for the Soviet Union became even more controversial after Stalin publicly turned against Israel in November 1948. As a result, his passport was withdrawn and he became engaged in legal battles for nearly a decade in order to retrieve it. Adding fuel to the fire was his only son's (Paul Jr.) marriage to a white woman in 1949 and his being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. He was unable to receive it until 1958 when his passport was returned to him.

Paul Robeson was essentially blacklisted, and tainted press statements continued to hound him. He began performing less and less in America. Despite his growing scorn towards America, he never gave up his American citizenship although the anguish of it all led to a couple of suicide attempts, nervous breakdowns, and a dependency on drugs. Europe was a different story. The people continued to hold him in high regard as an artist above reproach. He had a command of about 20 languages and wound up giving his last acting performance in Tony Richardson's production of 'Othello' at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959. Although he did give a few interviews on television, he never played any dramatic or musical roles in that medium. In 1960, in what was his final concert performance in Great Britain, Robeson sang to raise money for the Movement for Colonial Freedom at the Royal Festival Hall. In October 1960, Robeson embarked on a two-month concert tour of Australia and New Zealand with Essie. While in Sydney, he became the first major artist to perform at the construction site of the future Sydney Opera House. Back in London, Robeson expressed a desire to return to the United States and participate in the civil rights movement, while his wife argued that he would be unsafe there and "unable to make any money" due to government harassment. His health suddenly took a turn for the worse and he finally returned to the United States in 1963. His poet/wife Eslanda Robeson died of cancer two years later. Double pneumonia and a kidney blockage in 1965 nearly killed Robeson too. Robeson moved in with his son's family in New York City. He remained in poor health for pretty much the rest of his life. His last years were spent in Harlem at his sister's house in near-total isolation, denying all interviews and public correspondence. At a Carnegie Hall tribute to mark his 75th birthday in 1973, he was unable to attend, but a taped message from him was played that said: "Though I have not been able to be active for several years, I want you to know that I am the same Paul, dedicated as ever to the worldwide cause of humanity for freedom, peace and brotherhood." In 1976, Paul Robeson died at age 77 of complications from a stroke. He was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Among his many honours: he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995; he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998; was honored with a postage stamp during the 'Black Heritage' series, and both a Cultural Center at Penn State University and a high school in Brooklyn bear his name. In 1995 his autobiography 'Here I Stand' was published in England in 1958. His son, Paul Robeson Jr., also chronicled a book about his father, 'Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey' in 2001. When appearing before HUAC, the Committee asked him why he didn't relocate to Russia. He replied: "Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay right here and have a part of it just like you."

Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Stephen Bourne (BFI Screen-on-Line), Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (AllMusic), Find A Grave, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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Silent Agitator, a monumental-scale clock by Scottish artist Ruth Ewan, stood along the High Line at 24th Street between April 2019 and March 2020. It is based on an illustration by writer and labor activist Ralph Chaplin originally produced for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union that reads "What time is it? Time to organize." It was one of many images that appeared on "stickerettes," known as "silent agitators," which were printed by the millions in red and black on gummed paper for distribution to union members.

MEASUREMENTS

Length o.a. : 78.60 m

Length b.p.p.: 69.00 m

Breath moulded:. 17.60 m

Depth moulded: 7.70 m

Draught, Max.: 6.502 m

Freeboard, min: 1208 mm

Ligth ship 2220 T

Deadweight 3787.4 T

Gross tonnage: 2954 T

Net tonnage: 998 T

Classificati on

DNV 1A1 – FIFI I – SF LFL* COMF-V(3) E0 DYNPOS-AUTR NAUTOSV(

A) CLEAN DESIGN DK(+) HL(2.8) OILREC According to NOFO 2005

CARGO C A PA C I T I E S

Deck cargo 2500 tons

Deck area max L x B = 55.5 m x 14.4 m = 800 m 2

+-Deck strength Main deck from stern to fr. 85 = 5 t/m2

Fuel Oil 910 m3 Flow meter with printer

Liquid Mud: SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

1 Agitators in each tank (EL. Driven)

Brine : SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

Base oil: 414 m3 in combi tanks

Pot water: 933 m3

Drillwater / ballast: 1004 m3 / 1827 m3

Methanol + 178 m3

Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.

MEG / Glycol 156 m3

ORO: 1122 m3

Cement / Barite/bentonit: 302 m3 in 5 vertical tanks

DISCHARGE RATES

Fuel Oil 2 x spindle Screw0- 200 m3 9 bar

Liquid Mud 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Brine: 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Base Oil 1 x two Spindle Screw 100 m3

Pot.water 2 x Spindle Screw 0-200 m3 9 bar

Drillwater/ballast: 2 x Spindle Screw 0-250 m3 9 bar

Methanol: 2 x Spindle 0-75 m3 9 bar

MEG / Glycol 2 x two spindle screw pump 0-75 m3 9 bar

ORO: 4 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

1 x 2 Spindle Screw 100 m3 9 bar

Cement / Barite: 2 x Comp. 30m3/min – 5.6 bar

2 x Cyclone

2 x Dust Collector

TANK CLEANING SYSTEM

A total of 8 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD,& Brine

Slop Tank 1 x 20.0 m3

MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted

Main Engines: 4 x 1380 BkW/1800 rpm

MTV: Type 12 V 4000M50B

Main generators: 4 x 1445 EkW. 690 V, 60 Hz

Type: Marelli MJR 450 LA4B3

Emergency Engine: 1 x 99 BKW/1800 rpm

John Deere 6068 TFM 50

Emergency generator: 1 x 125 kVA-690 V 60 Hz

PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION a t 4 , 8 m d r a f t

Max speed: 13.8 knots

Econ- speed: 9-12 knots /

Service. speed: 12.0 knots / 9.1 t pr 24 hrs

Econ. speed: 10.0 knots /5.5 t pr 24 hrs

DP II Average: Draft 5,0 mtr / 9.3 t pr 24 hrs

HS: 2.5 m wind 25 knots

Harbor Mode 1 t pr 24 hrs

MAIN PROPULSION

Frequency controlled 2 x 1600 kW Schottel Twin

probeller Type STB 1212

Fwd. Tunnel thrusters 2 x 880 kW

Brunvoll Type FU-80-LTC-2000

BRI DGE D E S IGN : N A U T - OSV

1 x Consol forward bridge

2 x Consol aft bridge

1 x Radio station

AUTOMATION SYSTEM

IAS Powertec

LOADING COMPUTER

1 x Shipload

D P 2 S Y S T E M KONGSBERG K - POS - 2 1

1 x Fanbeam laser 4.1

1 x Radius

1 x Kongsberg DPS 200 CM

1 x Kongsberg DPS 116 CM

2 x Spotbeam

2 x Gill ultrasonic wind sensor

THRUSTER CONTROL

RR Helikone-x

BRI DGE WATCH MON I TORI NG SYSTEM

Havyard Powertec

ACCOMMODAT ION 2 3 P ERSONS

Cabins 11 off single cabins

2 off double cabins

2 off 4 men cabin

1 off office

1 off Hospital with additional 1 bed.

LIFE S AVI NG EQUIPM E N T 2 3 p e r s o n s

Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons

Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Survival suits: 23 persons

S t a n d b y r e s c u e e q u i p m e n t

Rescue class 250 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Rescue scoop 1 x Dacon

I N C I N ERATOR

1 x Atlas 200 SL WS P

Bo i l e r

1 x Parat Electrical 1600 kW

ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS

1 x Sat. TV: Seatel

1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners

1 x TV in all crew cabins

1 x TV in all lounges

1 x Radio / CD in all cabins

1 x Gymnasium w/Equipments

DECK EQUIPMENT

Windless 1 x NDM AWE-42 K3 8.7 T

Tugger winch 2 x NDM 7 ATC 180L4 10 T

Capstan 2 x NDM Capstan 101 10 T

Deck Crane 1 x Abas 3T 1.7 m -12 m

Provision crane

Hose Connection all substance Midship and aftship Starboard and Port

Methanol connection station starboard side aftship

A N T I ROL L I NG SYSTEM

2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system.

navi gAT ION EQUIPMENT

1 x Furuno S-Band ARPA Radar, Model FAR-2137S (10 cm)

1 x Furuno X-Band ARPA Radar, Model FCR-2117. (3 cm) Chart Radar

2 x Furuno Conning system, Model Furuno

2 x Furuno DGPS Navigator, Model GP-150

2 x Furuno ECDIS, Model TECDIS

3 x Sperry navigate X mk1

1 x Sperry Marin Navpilot 4000

1 x Furuno Echosounder FE-700

1 x Athe doppler logg

1 x Jotron uais tr-2500

1 x Tayio td-1550A direction finder

1 x Furuno Voyage Data Recorder, Model VR-3000

COMMUNICAT ION EQUIPMENT GMDSS A 3

1 x Furuno FS 2571C MF/HF/DSC 250 W Simplex radio station

2 x Furuno Felkon 15 Inmarsat C

1 x Fleet 33

3 x Jotron. Tron TR-20 GMDSS Portable VHF

2 x Furuno FM 8800D VHF

2 x Sailor RT 2048 VHF

3 x Motorola GP360 VHF Portable

3 x Motorola GM380 UHF

2 x GSM mobile phone Fax/Voice

1 x V-sat

1 x Furuno navtex NX 7000

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MEASUREMENTS

Length o.a. : 78.60 m

Length b.p.p.: 69.00 m

Breath moulded:. 17.60 m

Depth moulded: 7.70 m

Draught, Max.: 6.502 m

Freeboard, min: 1208 mm

Ligth ship 2220 T

Deadweight 3787.4 T

Gross tonnage: 2954 T

Net tonnage: 998 T

Classificati on

DNV 1A1 – FIFI I – SF LFL* COMF-V(3) E0 DYNPOS-AUTR NAUTOSV(

A) CLEAN DESIGN DK(+) HL(2.8) OILREC According to NOFO 2005

CARGO C A PA C I T I E S

Deck cargo 2500 tons

Deck area max L x B = 55.5 m x 14.4 m = 800 m 2

+-Deck strength Main deck from stern to fr. 85 = 5 t/m2

Fuel Oil 910 m3 Flow meter with printer

Liquid Mud: SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

1 Agitators in each tank (EL. Driven)

Brine : SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

Base oil: 414 m3 in combi tanks

Pot water: 933 m3

Drillwater / ballast: 1004 m3 / 1827 m3

Methanol + 178 m3

Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.

MEG / Glycol 156 m3

ORO: 1122 m3

Cement / Barite/bentonit: 302 m3 in 5 vertical tanks

DISCHARGE RATES

Fuel Oil 2 x spindle Screw0- 200 m3 9 bar

Liquid Mud 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Brine: 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Base Oil 1 x two Spindle Screw 100 m3

Pot.water 2 x Spindle Screw 0-200 m3 9 bar

Drillwater/ballast: 2 x Spindle Screw 0-250 m3 9 bar

Methanol: 2 x Spindle 0-75 m3 9 bar

MEG / Glycol 2 x two spindle screw pump 0-75 m3 9 bar

ORO: 4 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

1 x 2 Spindle Screw 100 m3 9 bar

Cement / Barite: 2 x Comp. 30m3/min – 5.6 bar

2 x Cyclone

2 x Dust Collector

TANK CLEANING SYSTEM

A total of 8 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD,& Brine

Slop Tank 1 x 20.0 m3

MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted

Main Engines: 4 x 1380 BkW/1800 rpm

MTV: Type 12 V 4000M50B

Main generators: 4 x 1445 EkW. 690 V, 60 Hz

Type: Marelli MJR 450 LA4B3

Emergency Engine: 1 x 99 BKW/1800 rpm

John Deere 6068 TFM 50

Emergency generator: 1 x 125 kVA-690 V 60 Hz

PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION a t 4 , 8 m d r a f t

Max speed: 13.8 knots

Econ- speed: 9-12 knots /

Service. speed: 12.0 knots / 9.1 t pr 24 hrs

Econ. speed: 10.0 knots /5.5 t pr 24 hrs

DP II Average: Draft 5,0 mtr / 9.3 t pr 24 hrs

HS: 2.5 m wind 25 knots

Harbor Mode 1 t pr 24 hrs

MAIN PROPULSION

Frequency controlled 2 x 1600 kW Schottel Twin

probeller Type STB 1212

Fwd. Tunnel thrusters 2 x 880 kW

Brunvoll Type FU-80-LTC-2000

BRI DGE D E S IGN : N A U T - OSV

1 x Consol forward bridge

2 x Consol aft bridge

1 x Radio station

AUTOMATION SYSTEM

IAS Powertec

LOADING COMPUTER

1 x Shipload

D P 2 S Y S T E M KONGSBERG K - POS - 2 1

1 x Fanbeam laser 4.1

1 x Radius

1 x Kongsberg DPS 200 CM

1 x Kongsberg DPS 116 CM

2 x Spotbeam

2 x Gill ultrasonic wind sensor

THRUSTER CONTROL

RR Helikone-x

BRI DGE WATCH MON I TORI NG SYSTEM

Havyard Powertec

ACCOMMODAT ION 2 3 P ERSONS

Cabins 11 off single cabins

2 off double cabins

2 off 4 men cabin

1 off office

1 off Hospital with additional 1 bed.

LIFE S AVI NG EQUIPM E N T 2 3 p e r s o n s

Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons

Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Survival suits: 23 persons

S t a n d b y r e s c u e e q u i p m e n t

Rescue class 250 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Rescue scoop 1 x Dacon

I N C I N ERATOR

1 x Atlas 200 SL WS P

Bo i l e r

1 x Parat Electrical 1600 kW

ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS

1 x Sat. TV: Seatel

1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners

1 x TV in all crew cabins

1 x TV in all lounges

1 x Radio / CD in all cabins

1 x Gymnasium w/Equipments

DECK EQUIPMENT

Windless 1 x NDM AWE-42 K3 8.7 T

Tugger winch 2 x NDM 7 ATC 180L4 10 T

Capstan 2 x NDM Capstan 101 10 T

Deck Crane 1 x Abas 3T 1.7 m -12 m

Provision crane

Hose Connection all substance Midship and aftship Starboard and Port

Methanol connection station starboard side aftship

A N T I ROL L I NG SYSTEM

2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system.

navi gAT ION EQUIPMENT

1 x Furuno S-Band ARPA Radar, Model FAR-2137S (10 cm)

1 x Furuno X-Band ARPA Radar, Model FCR-2117. (3 cm) Chart Radar

2 x Furuno Conning system, Model Furuno

2 x Furuno DGPS Navigator, Model GP-150

2 x Furuno ECDIS, Model TECDIS

3 x Sperry navigate X mk1

1 x Sperry Marin Navpilot 4000

1 x Furuno Echosounder FE-700

1 x Athe doppler logg

1 x Jotron uais tr-2500

1 x Tayio td-1550A direction finder

1 x Furuno Voyage Data Recorder, Model VR-3000

COMMUNICAT ION EQUIPMENT GMDSS A 3

1 x Furuno FS 2571C MF/HF/DSC 250 W Simplex radio station

2 x Furuno Felkon 15 Inmarsat C

1 x Fleet 33

3 x Jotron. Tron TR-20 GMDSS Portable VHF

2 x Furuno FM 8800D VHF

2 x Sailor RT 2048 VHF

3 x Motorola GP360 VHF Portable

3 x Motorola GM380 UHF

2 x GSM mobile phone Fax/Voice

1 x V-sat

1 x Furuno navtex NX 7000

ADOLF EICHMANN – This unassuming little man participated in one of the worst atrocities in human history. He was a member of Hitler’s Gestapo (Secret Police) and also of the dreaded S.S. he helped to administer the “final solution” of “the Jewish problem” in Nazi-held Europe. He shared responsibility for the deliberate mass murder of Jews and other enemies of Nazism. Eichmann helped to organize the transportation of millions of men, women and children to the firing squads and gas chambers of the Third Reich. He oversaw the construction of the notorious Mauthausen camp in Austria. Witnesses said that he personally executed many people, including babies. Just before the Nazi collapse, Eichmann allegedly said that he would jump laughing into his grave knowing that he had the blood of 5 000 000 people on his hands. By the end of the war, Eichmann had disappeared. Later, he was discovered in Argentina. In 1960 he was kidnapped from there by Israeli agents, who took him to Israel for trial. Convicted of his unspeakable crimes, he was hanged in 1962. No one saw him laughing on the scaffold.

BENITO MUSSOLINI- Born in poverty, this former schoolmaster, soldier and political agitator became Prime Minister of Italy in 1922. Gradually he crushed all his opposition, so that he was a virtual dictator by 1928. A socialist in his youth, he became a Fascist who believed in aggressive nationalism. He regarded war as a good thing, and planned to use it to restore an Italian Empire as in the days of ancient Rome. “Il Duce” (the leader) as he called himself, was fascinated by Hitler. The two men became allies. Italy entered World War II by attacking France “from behind” in 1940. The war went badly for Italy. in 1943, Mussolini was deposed and Italy sued for peace. Near war’s end in 1945, Mussolini and his mistress were seized by partisans, placed against a stone wall and shot. The bullet-riddled corpses were taken to Milan and strung up by the ankles in a public square, where they were further mutilated and spat upon.

ADOLF HITLER - Here stands the evil genius who hypnotised a nation into a frenzy of bloodlust and plunged the world into the most catastrophic war in history. A restless, frustrated youth, he served with distinction in World War I. Convinced that Germany’s defeat and heavy punishment were the fault of Jews and traitors at home, he began to preach German rearmament and expansion. Such policies could pull Germany out of the Depression and restory the glory of the armed forces. By 1933, Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany. He moved quickly to become a total dictator. Persecution and death were certain for all who opposed him. He then began a program of territorial expansion to create “Lebensraum” ( living space) for a master race who would exterminate or enslave all other inferior peoples within their borders. At its height, the Nazi Empire stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the gates of Moscow, from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of Africa. More than 6 000 000 Jews and untold millions of other people were slaughtered on his orders. Yet this twisted maniac was in his way a brilliant man. A spellbinding orator, he could sway huge crowds to delirium in minutes and he was followed with blind devotion. However his certainty of his own genius also led him to great mistakes which helped to ruin him. By April 1945 the Allies had overrun Germany from both east and west. While Russian shells exploded outside his Berlin bunker, Hitler declared that the German people were unworthy of his abilities. Terrified at the prospect of being captured alive, he committed suicide. Although his body was burned, on his orders, his remains were identified by Russian troops and later buried in an unknown location.

MV “SOLVIK SUPPLIER”

SHIP DESIGN PSV VS 485 CD

CLASSIFICATION DNV

BUILDER SEVERNAYA YARD ST PETERSBURG, HULL NO 696

PORT OF REGISTRY NASSAU

FLAG BAHAMAS

MMSI 311 070 200

IMO NUMBER 95 89 607

DELIVERY NOVEMBER 2011

CALL SIGN C6ZW5

MACHINERY AND PROPELLER PLANTS

Main Engines/Generators : 4 x 1825 kw CAT 3516B-DSG

Emergency Generator: 1 x 200 kw Volvo Penta D9A

Main Propulsion: 2 x 2300 kw SteerProp SP 35 CRP

FWD Azimuth: 1 x 880 kw Brunvoll CPP

FWD Tunnel Thrusters: 2 x 1000 kw Brunvoll CPP

CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005

Deck Cargo: 2 800 Tons

Deck Area: 1000 m2 wood covered deck

Deck Strength: 10 Tons/m2

Fuel Oil: 903 m3, Flowmeter with Printer

Fuel Transfer Capasity: 2 x 150 m3/hour

Liquid Mud (SG 2.8): 703 m3, 4 x 100 m3/hour

Agitators: Fitted in each tank

Brine (SG 2.5): 418 m3, 2x 150 m3/hour

Base Oil: 203 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour

Pot Water: 1007 m3, 1 x 150 m3/hour

Drill Water/Ballast: 2470 m3, 2 x 150 m3/hour

Methanol: 145 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour

Special Products: 146 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour

Slop: 186 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour

ORO: 1803 m3, 8 x 100 m3/hour

Cement/Barite/Bentonit: 440 m3, 2 x 30 m3/hour

Dispersant: 34 m3

Lubrication oil: 35 m3

ENVIRONMENT AND CARGO CONTROL PLANTS

Icinerator: Saniterm SH 20 SM/SR

Steam Generator: Parat Halvorsen AS 1600 kw

Hot Liquid Cargo Tank: 1 x 146 m3

Tank Cleaning: Per Gjerdrum AS

Special Cargo Tanks: Stainless Steel Tanks for Methanol

Inert Gas System: N2 Generator, Membrane Separation

Cargo Manifolds: Amidships and Aft each side

inside “Safe haven”

NAVIGATION

Bridge Consoles: Aft, Fwd and both Wings

Operation Control Office: Located on Bridge

Autopilot: Furuno AP 50

DP System: Kongsberg K Pos DP 2

Joystick System: Kongsberg C-Joy Constant

DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 2

DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 5

Fanbeam: Kongsberg Lazer Mk 4,2

DGPS: 2 x Kongsberg Seatex

Wind Sensor: 2 x Kongsberg Maritime

Radar 1: Furuno FAR 2137 S

Radar 2: Furuno FCR 2827 Chart Radar

Echo Sounder: Furuno FE 700

Gyro: 3 x Simrad GC 80

Speed Repeater: Skipper IR 300

VDR: Furuno VR 3000

Bridge Watch: VICO system NAUT/OSV

ECDIS: Tecdis T 2138

Speed log: Furuno DS 80

SPEED AND FUEL CONSUMPTION

Full speed: 15.0 knots 28.0 m3/24 hours

Service speed: 12.5 knots 17.0 m3/24 hours

Economic speed: 11.0 knots 12.0 m3/24 hours

DP operation: 5.6 m3/24 hours at position keeping

Harbor mode: 1.4 m3/24 hours

CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT

1 x TTS Marine GPK knuckle crane, SWL 3 tons/13 meter

1 x TTS Marine GPT telescopic jib, SWL 3 tons/13 meter

2 x Capstans aft, NDM SWL 8 tons

6 x Cargo Securing Winches, NDM SWL 3 tons

1 x Tugger Winch, NDM TU SWL 15 tons

LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT

Ship Certificate: 23 persons

Life Rafts: 4 x 25 persons Unitor

MOB: 1 x NOREQ RRB 500

MOB Davit: 1 x HLT 3500 TTS

Survival Suits: 23 SOLAS Immersion Suits

COMMUNICATION

Navtex: Furuno NX-700 B

Radar Transponder: 2 x Jotron Tron SART

DSC Terminal: Furuno FS 2570 C

AIS: Furuno FA 150

EPIRB manual: Jotron 45 SX

EPIRB Free Float: Jotron Tron 40 S Mk II

Radio Station: SSB, MF, HF, Furuno FS 1570

VHF Portable: 3 x Jotron Tron TR 20 GMDSS

VHF Station: Furuno FM 8800 S

UHF Portable: 5 x Motorola GP 340

Inmarsat C: Furuno Felcom 15

Intercom: Zenitel ACM 144 66/VO

Sound System: Vingtor VSS 111

Emergency: Vingtor VSP 211 L

PA System: Zenitel VPA 120, 240 and 400

Satelitt Communication: TBA

Mobile Phone: TBA

Vessel E-mail: captain@vestlandoffshore.no

ACCOMMODATION

Outfitted for 23 persons in spacious and comfortable facilities

Single Cabins: 15 with bathrooms

Double Cabins: 4 with bathrooms

Hospital: 1 Highest standard

Office: 1 fully outfitted

Day Room: 2 comfortable outfitted

Gymnasium: 1 fully outfitted

Entertainment: In Day Rooms and all Cabins

Antiroll Tank: 1 x 440 m3 + 1 x 160

Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.

It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.

There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.

Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.

In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.

In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.

In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.

Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.

Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.

The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.

Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.

Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.

John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives

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© Diana Yakowitz 2010 all rights reserved.

"W" Ordinary Object, W is for "Washing Machine". This is the latest image in a flickrfriend challenge called Odd Wednesday where I am working my way through the alphabet photographing an ordinary object for each letter. Preferably something I wouldn't normally think to photograph.

The clothes that a Washing Machine cleans, cleans the Washing Machine. Sym-non-bio-sis! DY

I am late again with this post but only by one day. Yesterday was an odd Wednesday and I did shoot this shot then but could not post it till today. Just three more left in the set!

Österreich kann es auch. TV-Duell Van der Bellen/Hofer: Österreich oberpeinlich ...

Österreich kann es auch - Van der Bellen gegen Hofer - Österreich oberpeinlich

TV-Duell ohne Sieger: Grünen-Kandidat Alexander Van der Bellen (links) und FPÖ-Mann Norbert Hofer saßen sich ohne Moderator gegenüber.

Ohne Moderator liefern sich die österreichischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten ein TV-Duell, das einer politischen Schlammschlacht gleicht. Aufschlussreich ist es trotzdem.

1970 gab es in Österreich erstmals ein besonderes Fernsehexperiment.

Da saßen der damalige Bundeskanzler Josef Klaus und Ex-Außenminister Bruno Kreisky im Fernsehstudio des Österreichischen Rundfunks. Ein Tisch, zwei Spitzenkandidaten vor der Parlamentswahl, kein Moderator.

Österreich kann es auch - Der Christsoziale und der Sozialdemokrat beharkten sich, Klaus blieb kühl, Kreisky schwitzte, man widersprach sich - doch man zollte sich Respekt.

Knapp 46 Jahre später, an diesem Pfingstsonntag, legte der österreichische Privat-Sender ATV das Format neu auf. Eine Woche vor der Stichwahl am 22. Mai saßen die Präsidentschaftskandidaten Norbert Hofer und Alexander Van der Bellen allein am Tisch.

Diesmal verflüchtigte sich der Respekt nach 20 Minuten.

Österreich kann es auch - Interview mit Armin Thurnher" Fesch und Faschismus ergaben den Feschismus" "Falter"-Herausgeber Armin Thurnher über den Burschenschafts-Hintergrund von FPÖ-Kandidat Norbert Hofer - und dessen Anziehung auf das Bildungsbürgertum.

Was sich der stellvertretende Parteichef der rechtspopulistischen FPÖ und der frühere Grünen-Vorsitzende da lieferten, war übel und verblüffend zugleich. Zuerst ließ man sich nicht ausreden, dann ging man über zu Häme, Unverschämtheiten und unverstellter Verächtlichkeit.

Zwei sehr unterschiedliche Männer waren einander ausgeliefert.

Siegreich ging niemand aus dem politischen Schlammcatchen hervor.

Da zeigte man den Scheibenwischer (Van der Bellen); da unterstellte man dem anderen, ein Lügner zu sein (Hofer); man empörte sich und verwendete das Wort "Schweinerei" (Van der Bellen).

Und man tat so, als ob man die Beleidigung eines Rappers nicht kolportieren wollte, sagte aber dann doch "Scheiß Fotzen" (Hofer).

Österreich oberpeinlich.

Das Fernsehduell ums höchste Staatsamt war mitunter so würdelos, dass man selbst im Ausland Anwandlungen zum Fremdschämen verspürte.

Österreich kann es auch - Siegreich ging eh niemand aus dem politischen Schlammcatchen hervor. Inhaltlich gab es kaum Neues, die Kontrahenten agierten erwartbar: Van der Bellen gab sich pro europäisch, würdigte das politische Österreich der letzten 70 Jahre, er verwies auf seine parteiübergreifende Unterstützerriege und sein Ansehen im Ausland.

Hofer, der als Stärkster aus dem ersten Wahlgang hervorgegangen war, spielte die bekannten Melodien der FPÖ-Klaviatur: EU-feindliche Klänge, dazu die Forderung nach plebiszitären Elementen.

Er nährte die Vorstellung, Brüssel und die anderen Parteien hätten sich zusammengetan gegen die Interessen der Österreicher. Und er übte Kritik an der Homoehe und den Kosten der Flüchtlingskrise.

Österreich kann es auch - Bislang präsentierte sich Hofer ganz anders als sein Parteichef ...

Aufschlussreich war die Sendung trotzdem, und das hatte vor allem mit Hofer zu tun. Der Burgenländer ist in den letzten Monaten sehr schnell sehr populär geworden, er erreicht Klientel, die nicht die mitunter rechtsradikal auftretende FPÖ wählt.

Österreich kann es auch - Ein Grund für die Sympathien ist, dass Hofer bislang anders als sein Parteichef aufgetreten ist: Heinz-Christian Strache, der sich in seiner Jugend in der Neonazi-Szene bewegt hatte, ist ein Angstmacher, ein schriller Agitator, der in diesem Jahr den bisherigen Bundeskanzler Werner Faymann einen "Staatsfeind" nannte.

Weiterlesen Quelle: TV-Duell Van der Bellen/Hofer: Österreich oberpeinlich - Politik - Süddeutsche.de web1295.fge1.5hosting.com/webapps/webapp_3447/oesterreich...

December 30, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JEF AEROSOL “ALL SHOOK UP” NYC DEBUT AT AD HOC GALLERY JANUARY 29TH.

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For more information please contact:

Email: info@adhocart.org; Telephone: 917.602.2153; Web: www.adhocart.org

All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol

January 29 - February 21, 2010

Opening Reception - Friday, January 29, 2010, 6-10pm

Ad Hoc Art

43 Bogart Street

Brooklyn, New York 11206

(via subway take the L Train to Morgan Avenue Station)

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Ad Hoc Art presents international stencil master Jef Aerosol in New York City for “All Shook Up”, a stunning show of cultural icons by a Street Artist with 30 years in the game.

The show with Ad Hoc Art, a gallery widely regarded as one of Street Art’s polestars, features brand new stenciled works as well as the now-classic pieces that have made Jef Aerosol’s name itself iconic; on paper, wood, and found objects.

A true originator who helped spark what is now known as “Street Art” when he sprayed his first stencil series across the city of Tours, France one night in 1982, the self-taught Aerosol has continuously rocked the streets with his oversized portraits and helped define a new public art nomenclature with other French artists like Blek Le Rat, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito.

Steadily from the ’80s to the ’10s Aerosol has cut and sprayed stunning portraits of his heroes; cultural icons who stand undiminished by the hype. They connect directly with the masses and shake public opinion with humor and provocation; Strummer, Cash, Vicious, Hendrix, Bowie, Bardot, Cobain, Lennon, Smith, Jagger – all brainy agitators and vixens cut and sprayed in stark layers of black, grey and white. And each with Aerosol’s signature hot red arrows affixed nearby for exclamation.

In Street Art and in the gallery, Aerosol has not purely focused on those well-known personages. Among the faces you’ll find a number of self-portraits and portrayals of the more anonymous among us such as those living and working in the streets.

Like the best photographers, Aerosol catches the instant of truth in his portraits, and reveals a universal humanity in each subject. “In my work I love to call up my feelings and emotions to honor these modern day heroes who have fed my life with their music, art and ideas. This new show is a powerful and vivid collection of these inspirations that I am really excited to bring to New York for the first time," Jef Aerosol.

Three decades of getting up on walls in cities including Paris, London, Lisbon, Chicago, New York, Bejing, Venice, Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich, Berlin, Dublin, and Tokyo have given him all the “street cred” Jef Aerosol will ever need.

Sighted in numerous books and by authors like Tristan Manco (Stencil Graffiti, Street Logos), blogs like Wooster Collective and Brooklyn Street Art, and newspapers like The New York Times as one of the lynchpins in the stencil art movement that came to be called “street art”, Jef Aerosol’s work has become a perennial favorite of collectors. His work resides in hundreds of private collections, has exhibited in numerous galleries in Europe, the U.S. and Australia (list below), and is regularly auctioned with Bonhams (London, New-York), Artcurial (Paris), Drouot (Paris), and Dreweats (London).

In 2007 Aerosol published a gallery of portraits in VIP Very Important Pochoirs (éditions Alternatives, Paris, 2007).

Galleries where the work of Jef Aerosol has been shown include: Galerie Brugier-Rigail (Paris), Galerie Raison d'Art (Lille), Signal Gallery (London), Zozimus Gallery (Dublin), Art Partner Galerie (Brussels), Galerie Anne Vignial (Paris), Galerie Storme (Lille), Galerie Onega (Paris), Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles), ATM Gallery (Berlin), and Famous When Dead Gallery (Melbourne).

This villa was built in the 18th century on one of the most beautiful places on earth with a killer view! Only this view will add a million dollars to the price of these grounds. It was built by a wealthy baron who built it as his summer house. When the baron left, rumours say that the villa was owned by anarchists, Utopians and agitators. At one time even they left and currently the place is awaiting to be bought. Probably for some several millions…

The surrounding gardens are packed with tropical plants and when we were there we heard the gardener at work some 15 meters away. I think the surrounding luxury villas make sure also this garden is kept nice and tidy. We managed to avoid the gardener and did our thing in the Mediterranean sun.

Please visit www.preciousdecay.com for more pictures

On the left: Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption, 1111 Gough Street, San Francisco. Completed in 1970.

Some locals call it "The Agitator," because it looks like the inside of a washing machine.

December 30, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JEF AEROSOL “ALL SHOOK UP” NYC DEBUT AT AD HOC GALLERY JANUARY 29TH.

******************************************************************

For more information please contact:

Email: info@adhocart.org; Telephone: 917.602.2153; Web: www.adhocart.org

All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol

January 29 - February 21, 2010

Opening Reception - Friday, January 29, 2010, 6-10pm

Ad Hoc Art

43 Bogart Street

Brooklyn, New York 11206

(via subway take the L Train to Morgan Avenue Station)

******************************************************************

Ad Hoc Art presents international stencil master Jef Aerosol in New York City for “All Shook Up”, a stunning show of cultural icons by a Street Artist with 30 years in the game.

The show with Ad Hoc Art, a gallery widely regarded as one of Street Art’s polestars, features brand new stenciled works as well as the now-classic pieces that have made Jef Aerosol’s name itself iconic; on paper, wood, and found objects.

A true originator who helped spark what is now known as “Street Art” when he sprayed his first stencil series across the city of Tours, France one night in 1982, the self-taught Aerosol has continuously rocked the streets with his oversized portraits and helped define a new public art nomenclature with other French artists like Blek Le Rat, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito.

Steadily from the ’80s to the ’10s Aerosol has cut and sprayed stunning portraits of his heroes; cultural icons who stand undiminished by the hype. They connect directly with the masses and shake public opinion with humor and provocation; Strummer, Cash, Vicious, Hendrix, Bowie, Bardot, Cobain, Lennon, Smith, Jagger – all brainy agitators and vixens cut and sprayed in stark layers of black, grey and white. And each with Aerosol’s signature hot red arrows affixed nearby for exclamation.

In Street Art and in the gallery, Aerosol has not purely focused on those well-known personages. Among the faces you’ll find a number of self-portraits and portrayals of the more anonymous among us such as those living and working in the streets.

Like the best photographers, Aerosol catches the instant of truth in his portraits, and reveals a universal humanity in each subject. “In my work I love to call up my feelings and emotions to honor these modern day heroes who have fed my life with their music, art and ideas. This new show is a powerful and vivid collection of these inspirations that I am really excited to bring to New York for the first time," Jef Aerosol.

Three decades of getting up on walls in cities including Paris, London, Lisbon, Chicago, New York, Bejing, Venice, Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich, Berlin, Dublin, and Tokyo have given him all the “street cred” Jef Aerosol will ever need.

Sighted in numerous books and by authors like Tristan Manco (Stencil Graffiti, Street Logos), blogs like Wooster Collective and Brooklyn Street Art, and newspapers like The New York Times as one of the lynchpins in the stencil art movement that came to be called “street art”, Jef Aerosol’s work has become a perennial favorite of collectors. His work resides in hundreds of private collections, has exhibited in numerous galleries in Europe, the U.S. and Australia (list below), and is regularly auctioned with Bonhams (London, New-York), Artcurial (Paris), Drouot (Paris), and Dreweats (London).

In 2007 Aerosol published a gallery of portraits in VIP Very Important Pochoirs (éditions Alternatives, Paris, 2007).

Galleries where the work of Jef Aerosol has been shown include: Galerie Brugier-Rigail (Paris), Galerie Raison d'Art (Lille), Signal Gallery (London), Zozimus Gallery (Dublin), Art Partner Galerie (Brussels), Galerie Anne Vignial (Paris), Galerie Storme (Lille), Galerie Onega (Paris), Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles), ATM Gallery (Berlin), and Famous When Dead Gallery (Melbourne).

The Old Girl

The Admiral Romuald Nałęcz-Tymiński Class Cruiser is the heavy-hitter of the New Fleet. It is a floating missile battery, carrying hundreds of surface-to-surface, surface-to-air, and cruise missiles. It closely follows the Polish doctrine of incredibly versatile weapons systems; its missile bays can be loaded with a wide variety of ordnance. Like many Polish ships, it has advanced anti-air electronics and sonar to protect it from aerial assaults, plus a helicopter for further versatility.

Admiral Romuald Nałęcz-Tymiński was commander of the Polish 2nd Fleet from 1923-1967.

Armament:

2 x dual 35 mm autocannons

1 x dual 79 mm autocannon

8 x SA35 "Agitator" surface-to-air missile launchers

16 x SS67 "Scorpion" surface-to-surface missile launchers

Carries one helicopter.

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Added a second radar, railings, and other details through Photoshop.

Another view of the sterling concrete agitiatr prior to delivery

Remodeled thruster section. Now modular for ease of building and transport. Details are nearly complete, frame is solid and the mechanics and electrics work. Details, details and more details before it’ll be final. Interstellar traveler, “Stardust Settler” 139 studs with “Stardust Agitator” docked, 108 studs without.

I.D.s 501 & 01557 photographed by John Ward on 2011-06-28 using a digital camera.

Concrite Iveco Acco 2350G Agitator Cement Mixer truck YYZ-478 in Remembrance Drive (Argyle Street) near Cowper Street, Picton, N.S.W., Australia.

..another version of the shed I shot with a box camera the other day only this time I used a #crowngraphic #4x5 camera and #rolleiIR400 film.

Developed in #Rodinal 1+40 for 8.5minutes in my Lego rotation tank agitator at 20deg. Celsius.

Another view with rear axle lifted

MEASUREMENTS

Length o.a. : 78.60 m

Length b.p.p.: 69.00 m

Breath moulded:. 17.60 m

Depth moulded: 7.70 m

Draught, Max.: 6.502 m

Freeboard, min: 1208 mm

Ligth ship 2220 T

Deadweight 3787.4 T

Gross tonnage: 2954 T

Net tonnage: 998 T

Classificati on

DNV 1A1 – FIFI I – SF LFL* COMF-V(3) E0 DYNPOS-AUTR NAUTOSV(

A) CLEAN DESIGN DK(+) HL(2.8) OILREC According to NOFO 2005

CARGO C A PA C I T I E S

Deck cargo 2500 tons

Deck area max L x B = 55.5 m x 14.4 m = 800 m 2

+-Deck strength Main deck from stern to fr. 85 = 5 t/m2

Fuel Oil 910 m3 Flow meter with printer

Liquid Mud: SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

1 Agitators in each tank (EL. Driven)

Brine : SG 2,8 975 m3 Total in 8 combi tanks

Base oil: 414 m3 in combi tanks

Pot water: 933 m3

Drillwater / ballast: 1004 m3 / 1827 m3

Methanol + 178 m3

Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.

MEG / Glycol 156 m3

ORO: 1122 m3

Cement / Barite/bentonit: 302 m3 in 5 vertical tanks

DISCHARGE RATES

Fuel Oil 2 x spindle Screw0- 200 m3 9 bar

Liquid Mud 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Brine: 2 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

Base Oil 1 x two Spindle Screw 100 m3

Pot.water 2 x Spindle Screw 0-200 m3 9 bar

Drillwater/ballast: 2 x Spindle Screw 0-250 m3 9 bar

Methanol: 2 x Spindle 0-75 m3 9 bar

MEG / Glycol 2 x two spindle screw pump 0-75 m3 9 bar

ORO: 4 x Ecc. Screw 0-100 m3 24 bar

1 x 2 Spindle Screw 100 m3 9 bar

Cement / Barite: 2 x Comp. 30m3/min – 5.6 bar

2 x Cyclone

2 x Dust Collector

TANK CLEANING SYSTEM

A total of 8 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD,& Brine

Slop Tank 1 x 20.0 m3

MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted

Main Engines: 4 x 1380 BkW/1800 rpm

MTV: Type 12 V 4000M50B

Main generators: 4 x 1445 EkW. 690 V, 60 Hz

Type: Marelli MJR 450 LA4B3

Emergency Engine: 1 x 99 BKW/1800 rpm

John Deere 6068 TFM 50

Emergency generator: 1 x 125 kVA-690 V 60 Hz

PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION a t 4 , 8 m d r a f t

Max speed: 13.8 knots

Econ- speed: 9-12 knots /

Service. speed: 12.0 knots / 9.1 t pr 24 hrs

Econ. speed: 10.0 knots /5.5 t pr 24 hrs

DP II Average: Draft 5,0 mtr / 9.3 t pr 24 hrs

HS: 2.5 m wind 25 knots

Harbor Mode 1 t pr 24 hrs

MAIN PROPULSION

Frequency controlled 2 x 1600 kW Schottel Twin

probeller Type STB 1212

Fwd. Tunnel thrusters 2 x 880 kW

Brunvoll Type FU-80-LTC-2000

BRI DGE D E S IGN : N A U T - OSV

1 x Consol forward bridge

2 x Consol aft bridge

1 x Radio station

AUTOMATION SYSTEM

IAS Powertec

LOADING COMPUTER

1 x Shipload

D P 2 S Y S T E M KONGSBERG K - POS - 2 1

1 x Fanbeam laser 4.1

1 x Radius

1 x Kongsberg DPS 200 CM

1 x Kongsberg DPS 116 CM

2 x Spotbeam

2 x Gill ultrasonic wind sensor

THRUSTER CONTROL

RR Helikone-x

BRI DGE WATCH MON I TORI NG SYSTEM

Havyard Powertec

ACCOMMODAT ION 2 3 P ERSONS

Cabins 11 off single cabins

2 off double cabins

2 off 4 men cabin

1 off office

1 off Hospital with additional 1 bed.

LIFE S AVI NG EQUIPM E N T 2 3 p e r s o n s

Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons

Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Survival suits: 23 persons

S t a n d b y r e s c u e e q u i p m e n t

Rescue class 250 persons

Mob boat: Type mako 5.55 m Water jet version, 6 persons

Rescue scoop 1 x Dacon

I N C I N ERATOR

1 x Atlas 200 SL WS P

Bo i l e r

1 x Parat Electrical 1600 kW

ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS

1 x Sat. TV: Seatel

1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners

1 x TV in all crew cabins

1 x TV in all lounges

1 x Radio / CD in all cabins

1 x Gymnasium w/Equipments

DECK EQUIPMENT

Windless 1 x NDM AWE-42 K3 8.7 T

Tugger winch 2 x NDM 7 ATC 180L4 10 T

Capstan 2 x NDM Capstan 101 10 T

Deck Crane 1 x Abas 3T 1.7 m -12 m

Provision crane

Hose Connection all substance Midship and aftship Starboard and Port

Methanol connection station starboard side aftship

A N T I ROL L I NG SYSTEM

2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system.

navi gAT ION EQUIPMENT

1 x Furuno S-Band ARPA Radar, Model FAR-2137S (10 cm)

1 x Furuno X-Band ARPA Radar, Model FCR-2117. (3 cm) Chart Radar

2 x Furuno Conning system, Model Furuno

2 x Furuno DGPS Navigator, Model GP-150

2 x Furuno ECDIS, Model TECDIS

3 x Sperry navigate X mk1

1 x Sperry Marin Navpilot 4000

1 x Furuno Echosounder FE-700

1 x Athe doppler logg

1 x Jotron uais tr-2500

1 x Tayio td-1550A direction finder

1 x Furuno Voyage Data Recorder, Model VR-3000

COMMUNICAT ION EQUIPMENT GMDSS A 3

1 x Furuno FS 2571C MF/HF/DSC 250 W Simplex radio station

2 x Furuno Felkon 15 Inmarsat C

1 x Fleet 33

3 x Jotron. Tron TR-20 GMDSS Portable VHF

2 x Furuno FM 8800D VHF

2 x Sailor RT 2048 VHF

3 x Motorola GP360 VHF Portable

3 x Motorola GM380 UHF

2 x GSM mobile phone Fax/Voice

1 x V-sat

1 x Furuno navtex NX 7000