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This striking building is San Francisco's third church dedicated to St Mary; the first, dating from 1854 remains as 'Old St Mary's Church' on the edge of Chinatown, but this is a direct replacement of the second, built 1891 and destroyed by arson in 1962. That was a time of considerable modernisation in catholicism, which encouraged the commissioning of a bold new design dominated (overwhelmed?) by a concrete saddle roof smoothly curving via hyperbolic paraboloids from a 75 m square cross-section at its base to a Greek cross cross-section at its 58m-high apex (75 m including the rooftop spire's cross).
This is the view up the middle of the eastern side; the blue is light entering though vertical windows whilst the (mainly) yellow glass is horizontal, in the roof.
The pattern of triangles, 1,680 in total, of 128 different sizes, outline the net of precast coffers supporting the roof skin.
I'm not sure precisely who designed the cathedral. It's clear that three local architects (John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney) worked with the internationally-renowned Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi – did the latter two, acting as consultants, devise a concept executed by the former three? Nervi and Belluschi were certainly known for monumental concrete structures.
Development of the site began in 1965; the cornerstone was laid in 1967, construction ended in 1970 and the new cathedral was consecrated in May 1971, though formal dedication to Saint Mary of the Assumption didn't take place until 1996, somewhat later than its first papal mass: John Paul II visited in 1987.
Irrespective of its 'official' name, St Mary's Cathedral is also known locally, for its supposed external resemblance to a top-loading washing machine's agitator, as 'Our Lady of Maytag' (apparently a US brand of washing machines).
Hanson Australia is a premixed concrete, aggregates and precast company. It owns and operates 55 quarries, 225 concrete plants, and two precast concrete facilities across Australia..
Hanson is part of the Heidelberg Cement group, a German multinational building materials company.
Their Tipper and Agitator trucks are always immaculately. Not easy in such a dirty business.
We’re both on a Motorway off ramp and heading onto Kingsford Smith Drive. He’s about to turn left and I'm going right.
Mini Truck .. many jobs.
HIGHLAND PRINCESS
REGISTRATION
Owner GulfMark UK Ltd
Year Built 2014
Builder Rosetti Marino SpA, Italy
Flag UK
Classification ABS +1A1, Offshore Support
Vessel, (E), + DPS-2, + AMS, +
ACCU Oil Recovery Capability
Class 1, FFV1, UWILD, GP
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Length Overall 246 ft (74.95 m)
Breadth (moulded) 52 ft (16.00 m)
Draught (max) 19 ft (5.85 m)
GT 2,215
NT 757
Deadweight 3,116 T
CAPACITIES
Cargo Deck Area 7,696 ft2 (174 ft x 44 ft)
715.5 m2 (53 m x 13.5 m)
Deck Load 1,650 T
Fuel Oil Cargo 243,830 gal (923 m3)
Potable Water 226,131 gal (856 m3)
Drill Water 321,497 gal (1,217 m3)
Oil Based Mud* 6,247 bbls
Base Oil 279 bbls
Brine 4,998 bbls
Oil Recovery 800 m3 (8 tanks)
Dry Bulk 11,318 ft3 @ 100% (80psi)
* Mud/Brine tanks (S.G. 2.5) 10 dual purpose mud /
brine tanks.
Can be split 6/4; mud / brine with total segregation
CARGO DISCHARGE
Fuel Oil 200 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Pot Water 200 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Oil Based Mud 2 x 100 m3 /hr @ 180 m hd
Base Oil 90 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Brine 100 m3/hr @ 180 m hd
Cement 80 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Barytes 60 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Bentonite 100 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Drill Water 150 m3/hr @ 90 m hd
PERFORMANCE
c. 14.5kn @ c. 25.0t / 24hrs
c. 13.0kn @ c. 15.9t / 24hrs
c. 11.0kn @ c. 12.3t / 24hrs
c. 9.0kn @ c. 9.8t / 24hrs
ACCOMMODATION
20 persons 12 x 1 Man cabins
4 x 2 Man cabins
Manoeuvring Equipment
1 x Poscon Joystick (portable)
DYNAMIC POSITIONING SYSTEM (CLASS II)
Konsberg – Simrad K-POS DP-21 Green DPS (DP II)
References 1 x Radius 1000 Radar
Positioning System
1 x DGPS DPS-200 with IALA
receiver
1 x DGPS DPS-100
MACHINERY
Main Engines 2 x 3,741 BHP
Thrusters Bow 2 x 885 BHP
Thrusters Stern 2 x 800 BHP
Shaft Altenators 2 x 1800 kW
Aux Generators 2 x 296 kW
Rudders 2 Rolls Royce High Lift
Propellers 2 x CPP
Deck Crane 1 x 6T @ 16m
Tugger Winch 2 x 10T
Capstans 2 x 8T
TANK WASHING SYSTEM
Toftejorg fixed tank cleaning system in mud/brine tanks.
Hot water and chemical dosing applications.
agitators
Electric agitators in all mud / brine tanks.
Navigation equipment
1 x Furuno 10cm ARPA Radar
1 x Furuno 3cm Radar
1 x Furuno GPS Satellite Navigator
3 x Raytheon Gyro Compass
1 x Raytheon Autopilot
1 x Furuno AIS FA 150
1 x Furuno Echosounder
1 x Furuno Naviknot Speed Log
1 x Furuno Weather Fax
Communication equipment
2 x Inmarsat C
1 x Internal Intercom System
Radio plant according to GMDSS A3 requirements
4 x Motorola GP 340 – Handheld UHF
2 x Furuno VHF RT 5022
1 x Furuno VHF External communication according to
GMDSS 3 x sailor SP 3520
1 x Sailor 406 MHz EPIRB McMurdo
1 x KU Band Satellite Communications System
Fire fighting
FiFi 1 with Self Drenching System
2 x 1800m3
/hr pumps
2 x 1200m3
/hr monitors
(No foam, water only)
additional features
Deck Power Outlets 2 x 500Amp Outlets (440v)
Reefer sockets 12 x 110v / 32Amp
FRC NDM Model
NPT60RB – 6 man 140 bhp inboard water jet
Dispersant Spraying 2 x 10 m stainless steel booms
Dispersant Storage 9 m3
Oil Recovery 800m3
Power pack For oil rec. equipment
I was out with one of my mates driving past Iveco Brisbane and I was this sitting out the front. So on the way back to my mates house I pulled onto the service road and parked out the front of the Iveco dealer to get some photo's.
I was skeptical at first when I heard it would get the Stralis grill, but I have to say the new Acco looks really nice, especially with the new bumper and headlights, however it wouldn't be an Acco if it didn't have the same. overall cab shape, haha. This is an Agitator spec Acco, a shame they still have the stupid plastic visor, steel is the only way to go for compactor use, pretty stupid by Iveco to be honest.
Design PSV VS 485 CD
Classification DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design,
Comf- V(3) C(3), E0, LfL, SF Oil rec,
d k+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
Builders Hellesøy Yard Løfallstrand
Port of reg. Fosnavaa g
Flag BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 071 800
IMO no 9470193
Delivery Date june 2010
Callsign C6ZY3
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
Deadweight: 5 486 t
Lightship: 3 069 t
Classification
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2 0 0 5
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging
of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Base oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Pot.water: 1 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Drillwater/ballast: 2 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Methanol: 1 x 0-75 m3 7.2 bar
Special Product: 1 x 0-75 m3 10.8 bar
Slop: 2 x 100 m3/hrs 7,0 bar
ORO: 8 x 0-100 m3/bar 7.0 bar
Cement / Barite: 2 x 30 m3/h 6.5 bar
CARGO MANI FOLDS
Manifolds midships each side inside safe haven and aft starboard and port side.
MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted
Main Engines: 4 x 1 901 kW Cat: Type 3 516 BTA
Main generators: 4 x AvK DSG 86 M1-4W. (2 028 kVA)
Harbour & Emergency Engine: 1 x 265 kW Volvo Penta D9A
Harbour & Emergency generator: 1 x 223 kVA. UC.M274H-1
690V; 60Hz
MAIN PROPULSION
Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi: 1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3/ 24 hrs
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 / 24 hrs
BRIDGE DES I GN: NA U T - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
DP S Y S TEM DYNPOS A U TR
Kongsberg DP II K-Pos
1 x Fanbeam Kongsberg Lazer Mk4.2
1 x Radascan
2 x DPS Kongsberg 200CM
2 x Vindsensor Gill
1 x Roll & Pitch Sea Tex MRU2
1 x DP motion Sea Tex MRU5
THRUSTER CONTROL
Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
BRIDGE WATCH MONITORING SYSTEM
Kongsberg Integrated Bridge
ACCOMMODATION 23 PERSONS
Cabins 13 off single cabins
5 off double cabins
1 off office
1 off Hospital
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons
Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons Viking
Mob boat: Norsafe type 655 makojet, 10 persons
Mob boat davit: 1 x HLT 3 500 TTS
Survival suits: 23 persons
INCINERATOR
1 x Teamtec. 500 000 kcal/h for solid waste, plastic and sludge oil.
STEAM GENERATOR
1x 1 450 kW and el.heating 4 x 10 kW
ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS
1 x Sat. TV: Seatel
1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners and 1x DVD
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
DEC K EQUIPMENT
Windless 2 x Windlass Mooring winch
Mooring 4 x Mooring lines 180 m each
Capstan 2 x 8t, NMD
Anchor chain 5225 m Ø 46 mm steel grade NVK3
Cargo securing winch 6 x 3t SWL. NMD CSW-3
Placed on each side Shelter Deck.
Tugger Winch 2 x SWL 15t, type TU-15
Deck Crane PS Basket transfer 1 x 3 t/13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPK 115
Deck Crane Stb. Cargo handling 1 x 3t /13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPT-80
ANTI ROLLING SYSTEM
2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system. 439.9 m3 (aft) and 159.6 m3 (fwd)
Navigation Equipment
1x Furuno FAR-2837S. S-band radar (10 cm)
1 x Furuno FCR-2827. X-band radar (3 cm)
1 x Autopilot. Simrad AP-50
3 x Gyro Simrad GC-80
2 x GPS Furuno GP-150
1 x AIS Furuno FA-150
1 x Speed Log. Skipper EML224
1 x Echo Sounder Furuno FE-700
1 x Speed repeater Skipper IR300
ECDIS. Furuno Tecdis T-2137
VDR. Furuno VR-3000
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GMDS S A 3
GSM Telephones. Samsung
Radar transponders. 1 x Jotron Tron SART
GMDSS hand portable VHF. Jotron Tron TR-20
UHF Portable radio. Motorola GP-340
Inmarsat-C. Furuno Felcom 15
Radio Station MF/HF. Furuno FS-2570C
Radio Station VHF/DSC. Furuno FM-8800S
DSC Terminal. MF/HF Furuno FS-2570C
NavTex. Furuno NX-700B
Manual EPIRB. Jotron 45 SX
Sarsat free float EPIRB. Jotron Tron 40S MkII
Internal Telephone System. Zenitel ACM-144-66/VO
Sound reception System. Vingtor
Fixed wiewlwaa terminal, Ericson G32/G36
Emergency Telephone System, Vingtor VSP-211-L
Public Announcement/GA Alarm: Zenitel VMA-2
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
Based at the Wanganui depot of Allied Concrete is this Australian-built Mack Metroliner CSMR 8X4 cement mixer truck.
Carrying fleetnumber 505 and registration JBC 410, it was new in 2015 and is powered by a 254 kW Cummins ISL 8.9 Litre diesel engine.
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 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
On-Site ready mix have added a pair of Hino 500-based concrete mixers to their fleet this year. One of them is seen here loading at their old batching plant in Cambridge.
Urquhart Castle;( Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal na Sròine) sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres (13 mi) south-west of Inverness and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the village of Drumnadrochit.
The present ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though built on the site of an early medieval fortification. Founded in the 13th century, Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross. The castle was granted to the Clan Grant in 1509, though conflict with the MacDonalds continued. Despite a series of further raids the castle was strengthened, only to be largely abandoned by the middle of the 17th century. Urquhart was partially destroyed in 1692 to prevent its use by Jacobite forces, and subsequently decayed. In the 20th century it was placed in state care and opened to the public: it is now one of the most-visited castles in Scotland.
The castle, situated on a headland overlooking Loch Ness, is one of the largest in Scotland in area.[2] It was approached from the west and defended by a ditch and drawbridge. The buildings of the castle were laid out around two main enclosures on the shore. The northern enclosure or Nether Bailey includes most of the more intact structures, including the gatehouse, and the five-storey Grant Tower at the north end of the castle. The southern enclosure or Upper Bailey, sited on higher ground, comprises the scant remains of earlier buildings.
History
Early Middle Ages
The name Urquhart derives from the 7th-century form Airdchartdan, itself a mix of Gaelic air (by) and Old Welsh cardden (thicket or wood). Pieces of vitrified stone, subjected to intense heat and characteristic of early medieval fortification, had been discovered at Urquhart from the early 20th century.Speculation that Urquhart may have been the fortress of Bridei son of Maelchon, king of the northern Picts, led Professor Leslie Alcock to undertake excavations in 1983. Adomnán's Life of Columba records that St. Columba visited Bridei some time between 562 and 586, though little geographical detail is given. Adomnán also relates that during the visit, Columba converted a Pictish nobleman named Emchath, who was on his deathbed, his son Virolec, and their household, at a place called Airdchartdan. The excavations, supported by radiocarbon dating, indicated that the rocky knoll at the south-west corner of the castle had been the site of an extensive fort between the 5th and 11th centuries. The findings led Professor Alcock to conclude that Urquhart is most likely to have been the site of Emchath's residence, rather than that of Bridei who is more likely to have been based at Inverness, either at the site of the castle or at Craig Phadrig to the west.
The early castle
Some sources state that William the Lion had a royal castle at Urquhart in the 12th century, though Professor Alcock finds no evidence for this.[12] In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Meic Uilleim (MacWilliams), descendents of Malcolm III, staged a series of rebellions against David I and his successors. The last of these rebellions was put down in 1229, and to maintain order Alexander II granted Urquhart to his Hostarius (usher or door-ward), Thomas de Lundin. On de Lundin's death a few years later it passed to his son Alan Durward. It is considered likely that the original castle was built soon after this time, centred on the motte at the south-west of the site.In 1275, after Alan's death, the king granted Urquhart to John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.
The first documentary record of Urquhart Castle occurs in 1296, when it was captured by Edward I of England. Edward's invasion marked the beginning of the Wars of Scottish Independence, which would go on intermittently until 1357. Edward appointed Sir William fitz Warin as constable to hold the castle for the English. In 1297 he was ambushed by Sir Andrew de Moray while returning from Inverness, and Moray subsequently laid siege to the castle, launching an unsuccessful night attack. The English must have been dislodged soon after, since in 1298 Urquhart was again controlled by the Scots. In 1303 Sir Alexander de Forbes failed to hold off another English assault. This time Edward installed as governor Alexander Comyn, brother of John, as the family had sided with the English against Robert Bruce. Following his murder of the Red Comyn in 1306, Bruce completed his defeat of the Comyns when he marched through the Great Glen in 1307, taking the castles of Inverlochy, Urquhart and Inverness. After this time Urquhart became a royal castle, held for the crown by a series of constables.
The remains of the 13th-century "shell keep" or motte is the earliest part of the castle to survive
Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood was constable of Urquhart Castle in 1329. After fighting at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, where the Scots were defeated, Lauder returned to hold Urquhart against another threatened English invasion. It is recorded as being one of only five castles in Scotland held by the Scots at this time.[nb 1] In 1342, David II spent the summer hunting at Urquhart, the only king to have stayed here.
Over the next two hundred years, the Great Glen was raided frequently by the MacDonald Lords of the Isles, powerful rulers of a semi-independent kingdom in western Scotland, with a claim to the earldom of Ross. In 1395, Domhnall of Islay seized Urquhart Castle from the crown, and managed to retain it for more than 15 years. In 1411, he marched through the glen to take on the king's supporters at the Battle of Harlaw. Although an indecisive battle, Domhnall subsequently lost the initiative and the crown was soon back in control of Urquhart. In 1437 Domhnall's son Alexander, now Earl of Ross, raided around Glen Urquhart but could not take the castle. Royal funds were granted to shore up the castle's defences. Alexander's son John succeeded his father in 1449, aged 16. In 1452 he too led a raid up the Great Glen, seizing Urquhart, and subsequently obtained a grant of the lands and castle of Urquhart for life. However, in 1462 John made an agreement with Edward IV of England against the Scottish King James III. When this became known to James in 1476, John was stripped of his titles, and Urquhart was turned over to an ally, the Earl of Huntly.
The Grants
The Grant Tower viewed from Loch Ness
Huntly brought in Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchie to restore order to the area around Urquhart Castle. His son John Grant of Freuchie (d.1538) was given a five-year lease of the Glen Urquhart estate in 1502. In 1509, Urquhart Castle, along with the estates of Glen Urquhart and Glenmoriston, was granted by James IV to John Grant in perpetuity, on condition that he repair and rebuild the castle.[20] The Grants maintained their ownership of the castle until 1912, although the raids from the west continued. In 1513, following the disaster of Flodden, Sir Donald MacDonald of Lochalsh attempted to gain from the disarray in Scotland by claiming the Lordship of the Isles and occupying Urquhart Castle. Grant regained the castle before 1517, but not before the MacDonalds had driven off 300 cattle and 1,000 sheep, as well as looting the castle of provisions. Grant unsuccessfully attempted to claim damages from MacDonald. James Grant of Freuchie (d.1553) succeeded his father, and in 1544 became involved with Huntly and Clan Fraser in a feud with the Macdonalds of Clanranald, which culminated in the Battle of the Shirts. In retaliation, the MacDonalds and their allies the Camerons attacked and captured Urquhart in 1545. Known as the "Great Raid", this time the MacDonalds succeeded in taking 2,000 cattle, as well as hundreds of other animals, and stripped the castle of its furniture, cannon, and even the gates. Grant regained the castle, and was also awarded Cameron lands as recompense.
The Great Raid proved to be the last raid. In 1527, the historian Hector Boece wrote of the "rewinous wallis" of Urquhart,[21] but by the close of the 16th century Urquhart had been rebuilt by the Grants, now a powerful force in the Highlands. Repairs and remodelling continued as late as 1623, although the castle was no longer a favoured residence. In 1644 a mob of Covenanters (Presbyterian agitators) broke into the castle when Lady Mary Grant was staying, robbing her and turning her out for her adherence to Episcopalianism. An inventory taken in 1647 shows the castle virtually empty.[25] When Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland in 1650, he disregarded Urquhart in favour of building forts at either end of the Great Glen.
Broken masonry from the destruction of the gatehouse
When James VII was deposed in the Revolution of 1688, Ludovic Grant of Freuchie sided with William of Orange and garrisoned the castle with 200 of his own soldiers. Though lacking weapons they were well-provisioned and, when a force of 500 Jacobites (supporters of the exiled James) laid siege, the garrison were able to hold out until after the defeat of the main Jacobite force at Cromdale in May 1690. When the soldiers finally left they blew up the gatehouse to prevent reoccupation of the castle by the Jacobites. Large blocks of collapsed masonry are still visible beside the remains of the gatehouse. Parliament ordered £2,000 compensation to be paid to Grant, but no repairs were undertaken.Subsequent plundering of the stonework and other materials for re-use by locals further reduced the ruins, and the Grant Tower partially collapsed following a storm in 1715.
Later history
By the 1770s the castle was roofless, and was regarded as a romantic ruin by 19th-century painters and visitors to the Highlands.In 1884 the castle came under the control of Caroline, Dowager Countess of Seafield, widow of the 7th Earl of Seafield, on the death of her son the 8th Earl. On Lady Seafield's death in 1911 her will instructed that Urquhart Castle be entrusted into state care, and in October 1913 responsibility for the castle's upkeep was transferred to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. Historic Scotland, the successor to the Office of Works, continues to maintain the castle, which is a category A listed building and a scheduled monument in recognition of its national significance.
In 1994 Historic Scotland proposed construction of a new visitor centre and car park to alleviate the problems of parking on the main A82 road. Strong local opposition led to a public inquiry, which approved the proposals in 1998 .The new building is sunk into the embankment below the road, with provision for parking on the roof of the structure.The visitor centre includes a display on the history of the site, including a series of replicas from the medieval period; a cinema; a restaurant; and shop. The castle is open all year, and can also host wedding ceremonies.[33] In 2011 more than 315,000 people visited Urquhart Castle, making it Historic Scotland's third most visited site after the castles of Edinburgh and Stirling.
Urquhart Castle is sited on Strone Point, a triangular promontory on the north-western shore of Loch Ness, and commands the route along this side of the Great Glen as well as the entrance to Glen Urquhart. The castle is quite close to water level, though there are low cliffs along the north-east sides of the promontory. There is considerable room for muster on the inland side, where a "castle-toun" of service buildings would originally have stood, as well as gardens and orchards in the 17th century.[2] Beyond this area the ground rises steeply to the north-west, up to the visitor centre and the A82. A dry moat, 30 metres (98 ft) across at its widest, defends the landward approach, possibly excavated in the early Middle Ages. A stone-built causeway provides access, with a drawbridge formerly crossing the gap at the centre. The castle side of the causeway was formerly walled-in, forming an enclosed space similar to a barbican .
Urquhart is one of the largest castles in Scotland in area The walled portion of the castle is shaped roughly like a figure-8 aligned northeast-southwest along the bank of the loch, around 150 by 46 metres (492 by 151 ft), forming two baileys (enclosures): the Nether Bailey to the north, and the Upper Bailey to the south.[nb 2] The curtain walls of both enclosures date largely to the 14th century, though much augmented by later building, particularly to the north where most of the remaining structures are located.
Nether Bailey
The remains of the gatehouse
The 16th-century gatehouse is on the inland side of the Nether Bailey, and comprises twin D-plan towers flanking an arched entrance passage. Formerly the passage was defended by a portcullis and a double set of doors, with guard rooms either side. Over the entrance are a series of rooms which may have served as accommodation for the castle's keeper. Collapsed masonry surrounds the gatehouse, dating from its destruction after 1690.
The Nether Bailey, the main focus of activity in the castle since around 1400,[36] is anchored at its northern tip by the Grant Tower, the main tower house or keep. The tower measures 12 by 11 metres (39 by 36 ft), and has walls up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) thick. The tower rests on 14th-century foundations, but is largely the result of 16th-century rebuilding Originally of five storeys, it remains the tallest portion of the castle despite the southern wall collapsing in a storm in the early 18th century. The standing parts of the parapet, remodelled in the 1620s, show that the corners of the tower were topped by corbelled bartizans (turrets). ] Above the main door on the west, and the postern to the east, are machicolations, narrow slots through which objects could be dropped on attackers. The western door is also protected by its own ditch and drawbridge, accessed from a cobbled "Inner Close" separated from the main bailey by a gate. The surviving interior sections can still be accessed via the circular staircase built into the east wall of the tower. The interior would have comprised a hall on the first floor, with rooms on another two floors above, and attic chambers in the turrets. Rooms on the main floors have large 16th-century windows, though with small pistol-holes below to allow for defence.
To the south of the tower is a range of buildings built against the thick, buttressed, 14th-century curtain wall. The great hall occupied the central part of this range, with the lord's private apartments of great chamber and solar in the block to the north, and kitchens to the south. The foundations of a rectangular building stand on a rocky mound within the Nether Bailey, tentatively identified as a chapel.
Upper Bailey
The Upper Bailey is focused on the rocky mound at the south-west corner of the castle. The highest part of the headland, this mound is the site of the earliest defences at Urquhart. Vitrified material, characteristic of early medieval fortification, was discovered on the slopes of the mound, indicating the site of the early medieval fortification identified by Professor Alcock. In the 13th century, the mound became the motte of the original castle built by the Durwards, and the surviving walls represent a "shell keep" (a hollow enclosure) of this date. These ruins are fragmentary, but indicate that there were towers to the north and south of the shell keep.
A 16th-century water gate in the eastern wall of the Upper Bailey gives access to the shore of the loch.The adjacent buildings may have housed the stables. To the south of this, opposite the motte, is the base of a doocot (pigeon house) and the scant remains of 13th-century buildings, possibly once a great hall but more recently re-used as a smithy.
I was out with one of my mates driving past Iveco Brisbane and I was this sitting out the front. So on the way back to my mates house I pulled onto the service road and parked out the front of the Iveco dealer to get some photo's.
I was skeptical at first when I heard it would get the Stralis grill, but I have to say the new Acco looks really nice, especially with the new bumper and headlights, however it wouldn't be an Acco if it didn't have the same. overall cab shape, haha. This is an Agitator spec Acco viewed from a more side on photo. Thankfully it still has a Cummins in it too.
Questa due giorni di riposo è stata costernata da una costante malevola forza “danneggia elettrodomestici” di casa.
E, se da una parte potrei essere tentato di additare la suocera come “incolpevole colpevole” di queste piccole sciagure domestiche, dall’altra capisco che invece, poverina, nulla ha a che vedere con la vera colpevole della situazione...
Dicesi sfiga.
Non era tanto tempo fa che avevo indetto questo 2011 come anno di spese.
L’altra mattina mia moglie mi chiama prima della sveglia dicendo “Non lo sai che è successo...” che equivale al suo modo di dire che c’è qualche rogna di cui gravarsi.
Così, con l’espressione barcollante che può avere uno andato a letto solo due ore prima che mi consegna fattezze e movenze da troll, mi trascino in bagno per dare un’occhiata (si fa per dire)
Intanto fa piacere scoprire che non v’è alcun allagamento in corso...
C’è il bucato incastrato dentro perché l’oblò è bloccato, ma il resto della lavatrice è immobile e si sente un frastuono continuo... bzzzzzuuuuuu... e non è quello che ho in testa io.
Comprovata l’inutilità dell’unica tecnica per la riparazione rapida della lavatrice che conosco ossia il famoso “cazzotto sopra”, decido che al momento l’unica opzione pensabile è quella di staccare la presa dal muro e tornarmene a dormire.
“Come?... Così?” prova a ribattere timidamente mia moglie.
“Dai, per ora il rumore non c’è più, dopo, quando mi alzo che capisco, proviamo a vedere” ribatto io con un piede già sotto le coperte.
La meraviglia della tecnica del cazzotto sopra è che, se lì per lì non funziona, dopo un po’ di tempo può sempre funzionare...
Come se l’elettrodomestico avesse una saggezza propria... “qui mi riempiono di cazzotti, è meglio che funziono” e tac, si rimette a funzionare da solo.
Infatti quando mi alzo e reinserisco la spina, la lavatrice sbotta un po’ ma poi esce quasi subito dall’empasse nel quale si trovava e riprende a fare il suo mestiere.
Mia moglie sorride, mia figlia mi guarda come fossi un genio dell’idraulica e mia suocera affievolisce i sensi di colpa derivanti dall’averla avviata lei quella mattina.
Io invece, che sono molto più “basic” nella disamina delle situazioni penso: “che culo!”.
La stessa sera, mentre sono al lavoro chiama mia moglie ed esordisce con la solita frase “Non lo sai che è successo...”
Aridaje!
Mi informa che secondo lei il frigorifero è rotto, che gli alimenti le sembrano caldi anziché freddi e fantastica già su modelli nuovi da comperare... “domani quando ti svegli vedi un po’ te”.
Non esattamente il modo in cui uno sogna di svegliarsi all’interno di quelli che sono i suoi giorni di riposo.
Comunque...
Quando mi alzo, il primo scoglio da superare è quello di capire com’è che si estrae un frigorifero da incasso dall’incasso stesso senza incassarsi!
Non facile come potrebbe sembrare...
Estratto il temibile aggeggio e riprovata la tecnica sempreverde del cazzotto sopra, comincio nella mia disamina: in effetti la roba dentro sembra tiepida, però il freezer funziona, quindi se si fosse guastato il motore non andrebbe neppure quello...
Poi a ben auscultare sembrerebbe udirsi anche il rumore di quando il motore si attacca (ma su questo i pareri sono discordi), proviamo ad alzare in posizione “3” e vediamo che succede.
Intanto ovviamente mia suocera ha dato fondo a tutto il suo estro gastronomico perché non sia mai che si spreca qualcosa: dato che bisogna far fuori le uova ci sono una crostata ed una torta oltre ad una piccola frittata per pranzo oppure per cena che tanto si mantiene, c’è l’insalata preparata, un piattone di pomodori ed un vassoio di carotine alla Julienne (che poi mi sono sempre domandato: ma questa Julienne, quante se ne sarà mai mangiate di ste benedette carote per darle il suo nome?), c’è già in tavola un piatto di affettati vari, formaggi molli e duri a perdita d’occhio, le olive, la marmellata e persino i formaggini che usiamo da mettere nella minestra, in padella ci sono le fettine di carne.
Tutto da consumare in un'unica soluzione!
Dopo tutto sto popò di abboffata non è che si abbia molta voglia ed ancor meno lucidità di andare a penetrare i misteri dei frigoriferi moderni, comunque è ora di rimettersi all’opera.
Nonostante la temperatura di raffreddamento abbassata (metti a “3” però abbassi! Mah!) quelle poche cose risparmiate dalla furia gastronomica della suocera, appaiono tiepide, però siamo sempre più convinti che il motore si senta e quindi il frigo funzioni regolarmente.
Mettendo una mano all’interno mi accorgo per puro caso che la luce che illumina il vano frigo è bollente...
Hum...
E se...
Ari chiudi er frigorifero, ari mettite seduto a mangiare qualcosa, ari aspetta un tempo ragionevole, ari apri er frigorifero per controllare...
La lampadina scotta ancora!
Non sarà vero!
La suocera dall’alto della sua esperienza agraria dice che potrebbe benissimo essere... “anche ai pulcinelli appena nati a volte mettono una lampadina nella scatola per tenerli al caldo”.
Dice.
Io al momento, dopo aver trafficato tutta la mattina, con la pancia che mi scoppia ed un crescente stato agitatorio in corso, sti pulcinelli me li mangerei crudi davanti alla gallina che li ha partoriti e leccandomi le dita alla fine, ma comunque mi rendo conto, grazie all’esempio della suocera che il problema può essere proprio questo.
Unica cosa: come fare effettivamente ad appurare che la luce, una volta chiuso il frigorifero rimane accesa perennemente e non trattasi invece di una normale incandescenza che si verifica non appena la stessa si accende all’apertura del frigorifero?
Ci vuole un’ideona...
L’odio sconfinato verso il telefonino mi viene in soccorso: prendo l’aggeggio, accendo la videocamera e lo chiudo per qualche minuto dentro al frigorifero.
Nel frattempo... ari chiudi er frigorifero, ari mettite seduto a mangiare qualcosa, ari aspetta un tempo ragionevole, ari apri er frigorifero per controllare...
Il telefono (fottuto caparbio attaccato alla vita) ancora funziona, ma almeno, riguardando il video degli ultimi 5 minuti, posso appurare che la maledetta lucina rimane sempre accesa!
Quindi io è dalla mattina che traffico, ho mangiato come un bufalo, rischiato (rischiato?) di sputtanare il telefonino nonché di dover andare a comperare un frigorifero nuovo e tutto per una merdosa lampadina da un euro che non vuole saperne di spegnersi?
La prima soluzione che mi viene è prendere un martello e disintegrarla!
Ma dato che trattasi solamente di far rimanere pigiato un bottoncino, risolvo in maniera semplice ed assai meno belligerante.
Mia moglie sorride, mia figlia mi guarda come fossi un genio dell’elettronica e mia suocera affievolisce i sensi di colpa derivanti dall’averci pasturato come fossimo una vasca di Piranha.
Io invece, che sono molto più “basic” nella disamina delle situazioni continuo a pensare: “che culo!”.
SHIP DESIGN - VS 485 MK III
CLASSIFICATION - BUREAU VERITAS
BUILDER - HELLESØY VERFT AS, HULL NO 149
PORT OF REGISTRY - NASSAU
FLAG - BAHAMAS
MMSI - 311000256
IMO NUMBER - 9620982
DELIVERY - JUNE 2012
CALL SIGN - C6BG5
REGISTERED OWNER: Rem PSV AS
MAIN DIMENSIONS
LENGTH O.A - 85.00m
LENGTH P.P - 77.65m
BREADTH - 20.00m
MAX DRAFT - 7.16m
GROSS TONNAGE - 4,344mt
NET TONNAGE - 1,800mt
DEADWEIGHT - 5,549mt
LIGHTWEIGHT - 3,072mt
CLASS NOTATIONS
SUPPLY VESSEL OIL RECOVER SHIP -OIL PRODUCT,
UNRESTRICTED NAVIGATION
COMF-NOISE 3 COMF-VIB 3,
CPS(WBT), AUT-UMS,
SYS-NEQ-OSV, CLEANSHIP SUPER,
ICE CLASS ID, DYNAPOS AM/AT R,
SDS, IG,
ERN 99.99.99.96, NOFO 2009
ENVIRONMENT AND CARGO CONTROL PLANTS
Incinerator: Saniterm SH 20 SM/SR
Steam generator: 1600kW, Parat Halvorsen AS
Hot Liquid Cargo Tank: 1x 146m3
Tank Cleaning: Per Gjerdrum AS
Special Cargo Tanks: Stainless Steel Tanks for Methanol
Inert Gas System: N2 Generator, membrane separation
Cargo Manifolds: Centre/Aft each side inside “Safe haven”
MACHINERY AND PROPELLER PLANTS
Main Engines/Gen.: 4x 1825kW CAT 3516B-DSG
Emergency Generator: 1x 200kW Volvo Penta D9A
Main Propulsion: 2x 2300kW SteerProp SP 35 CRP
FWD Azimuth: 1x 880kW Brunvoll
FWD Tunnel Thrusters: 2x 1000kW Brunvoll
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2009
Deck Cargo: 2800mt
Deck Area: 1004m2
, 59.8m x 16.8m free space
Deck Strength: 10mt/m2
Fuel Oil: 903m3
Liquid Mud (SG 2.8): 703m3
, Agitators in all tanks
Brine (SG 2.5): 418m3
Base Oil: 203m3
Pot Water: 1007m3
Drill Water/Ballast: 2470m3
Methanol: 145m3
Special Product: 146m3
Slop: 186m3
ORO: 1803m3
Cement/Bar/Bent: 440m3
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: Seatex MRU 2
DP Motion System 1: Seatex MRU 5
Fanbeam: Kongsberg Laser Mk 4,2
DGPS: 2x Furuno GP 150
Wind Sensor: 2x Kongsberg Maritime
Radar 1: Furuno FAR 2137 S
Radar 2: Furuno FCR 2827 Chart Radar
Echo Sounder: Furuno FE 700
Gyro: 3x Simrad GC 80
Speed Repeater: Skipper IR 300
VDR: Furuno VR 3000
GPS: 2x Furuno GP 150
Bridge Watch: VICO system NAUT/OSV
ECDIS: Tecdis T 2138
Speed log: Furuno DS 80
SPEED AND FUEL CONSUMPTION
Full speed: 15.0 knots, 21.5 mt/d
Service speed: 12.5 knots, 12.0 mt/d
Economic speed: 11.0 knots, 9.7 mt/d
DP operation: 4.8 mt/d at position keeping
Harbour mode: 1.4 mt/d
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT
1x TTS Marine 3mt/15m GPK knuckle crane
1x TTS Marine 3mt/15m GPT telescopic jig
1x NDM SWM 8mt capstans aft
6x NDM SWL 3mt cargo securing winches
1x NDM TU SWL 15mt Tugger Winch
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Ship Certificate: 23 persons
Life Rafts: 4x 25 persons Unitron
MOB: 1x NORSAFE
MOB Davit: 1x HLT 3500 TTS
Survival Suits: 23 SOLAS Immersion Suits
Survival suits according to rules
COMMUNICATION
Navtex: Furuno NX-700 B
Radar Transponder: 2x 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: 3x Jotron Tron TR 20 GMDSS
VHF Station: Furuno FM-8800 S
UHF Portable: 5x 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
Sat. Communication: +47 55 62 81 53
Mobile Phone NOR: +47 46 90 79 06
Mobile Phone UK: +44 77 33 33 50 14
Vessel E-Mail: captain@mistral.remoffshore.no
ACCOMMODATION
Outfitted for 22 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 comfortably outfitted
Gymnasium: 1 fully outfitted
Entertainment: In Day Rooms and all Cabins
Antiroll Tank: 1x 440m3 + 1x 160m
Monument to one of the great Liberal Danes, Viggo Hørup - politician, journalist and agitator. King's Garden at Rosenborg Slot. (J F Willumsen, 1908).
"Don't light a fire under the pan of your laws when the enemy is making soup."
#Copenhagen #Statue
Faroese politician trying to impress/persuade the local trolls... Found this (and love it) on the museum of art in Tórshavn. By local author (and artist) William Heinesen. I recommend his novel : "The Lost Musicians".
Design PSV VS 485 CD
Classification DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design,
Comf- V(3) C(3), E0, LfL, SF Oil rec,
d k+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
Builders Hellesøy Yard Løfallstrand
Port of reg. Fosnavaa g
Flag BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 071 800
IMO no 9470193
Delivery Date june 2010
Callsign C6ZY3
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
Deadweight: 5 486 t
Lightship: 3 069 t
Classification
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2 0 0 5
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging
of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Base oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Pot.water: 1 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Drillwater/ballast: 2 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Methanol: 1 x 0-75 m3 7.2 bar
Special Product: 1 x 0-75 m3 10.8 bar
Slop: 2 x 100 m3/hrs 7,0 bar
ORO: 8 x 0-100 m3/bar 7.0 bar
Cement / Barite: 2 x 30 m3/h 6.5 bar
CARGO MANI FOLDS
Manifolds midships each side inside safe haven and aft starboard and port side.
MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted
Main Engines: 4 x 1 901 kW Cat: Type 3 516 BTA
Main generators: 4 x AvK DSG 86 M1-4W. (2 028 kVA)
Harbour & Emergency Engine: 1 x 265 kW Volvo Penta D9A
Harbour & Emergency generator: 1 x 223 kVA. UC.M274H-1
690V; 60Hz
MAIN PROPULSION
Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi: 1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3/ 24 hrs
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 / 24 hrs
BRIDGE DES I GN: NA U T - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
DP S Y S TEM DYNPOS A U TR
Kongsberg DP II K-Pos
1 x Fanbeam Kongsberg Lazer Mk4.2
1 x Radascan
2 x DPS Kongsberg 200CM
2 x Vindsensor Gill
1 x Roll & Pitch Sea Tex MRU2
1 x DP motion Sea Tex MRU5
THRUSTER CONTROL
Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
BRIDGE WATCH MONITORING SYSTEM
Kongsberg Integrated Bridge
ACCOMMODATION 23 PERSONS
Cabins 13 off single cabins
5 off double cabins
1 off office
1 off Hospital
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons
Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons Viking
Mob boat: Norsafe type 655 makojet, 10 persons
Mob boat davit: 1 x HLT 3 500 TTS
Survival suits: 23 persons
INCINERATOR
1 x Teamtec. 500 000 kcal/h for solid waste, plastic and sludge oil.
STEAM GENERATOR
1x 1 450 kW and el.heating 4 x 10 kW
ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS
1 x Sat. TV: Seatel
1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners and 1x DVD
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
DEC K EQUIPMENT
Windless 2 x Windlass Mooring winch
Mooring 4 x Mooring lines 180 m each
Capstan 2 x 8t, NMD
Anchor chain 5225 m Ø 46 mm steel grade NVK3
Cargo securing winch 6 x 3t SWL. NMD CSW-3
Placed on each side Shelter Deck.
Tugger Winch 2 x SWL 15t, type TU-15
Deck Crane PS Basket transfer 1 x 3 t/13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPK 115
Deck Crane Stb. Cargo handling 1 x 3t /13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPT-80
ANTI ROLLING SYSTEM
2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system. 439.9 m3 (aft) and 159.6 m3 (fwd)
Navigation Equipment
1x Furuno FAR-2837S. S-band radar (10 cm)
1 x Furuno FCR-2827. X-band radar (3 cm)
1 x Autopilot. Simrad AP-50
3 x Gyro Simrad GC-80
2 x GPS Furuno GP-150
1 x AIS Furuno FA-150
1 x Speed Log. Skipper EML224
1 x Echo Sounder Furuno FE-700
1 x Speed repeater Skipper IR300
ECDIS. Furuno Tecdis T-2137
VDR. Furuno VR-3000
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GMDS S A 3
GSM Telephones. Samsung
Radar transponders. 1 x Jotron Tron SART
GMDSS hand portable VHF. Jotron Tron TR-20
UHF Portable radio. Motorola GP-340
Inmarsat-C. Furuno Felcom 15
Radio Station MF/HF. Furuno FS-2570C
Radio Station VHF/DSC. Furuno FM-8800S
DSC Terminal. MF/HF Furuno FS-2570C
NavTex. Furuno NX-700B
Manual EPIRB. Jotron 45 SX
Sarsat free float EPIRB. Jotron Tron 40S MkII
Internal Telephone System. Zenitel ACM-144-66/VO
Sound reception System. Vingtor
Fixed wiewlwaa terminal, Ericson G32/G36
Emergency Telephone System, Vingtor VSP-211-L
Public Announcement/GA Alarm: Zenitel VMA-2
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
Havila Crusader
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
C L A S S I F I CATION
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product
and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
MAIN PROPULSION Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi:1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMP TION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3 srh 42 /
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 srh 42 / B RIDGE DESIGN: NAUT - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
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 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
www.recyclart.org/2016/08/hand-crank-wash-tub/
There are many hand-crank washing tubs out there, but they cost money. Heck with that! I made my own Hand-Crank Wash Tub out of recycled and upcycled bits & pieces lying around my shed for FREE! The motivation behind it is that I like to do basic maintenance on my cars and motorcycles, and it always generates a lot of dirty, greasy rags.
I don’t like to run them through my washing machine because of the risk of spreading grease to my regular laundry. I also don’t like to take them to the laundromat for the same reason. It’s not fair to the next customer to ruin their clothes! So, I decided to make something that would at least do a good job of a first wash so that I could then use my own washing machine.
When I looked around, the cheapest ones were around fifty dollars. I looked around for plans, and the most prominent ones were basically versions of wash boards or the style that uses a plunger in a lid. I didn’t want to sit around and basically “churn butter”, as agitating washers work better. So this is my version of an agitating washer!
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – supplies & tools needed:
Supplies needed:
5-gal. bucket (like a used latex paint bucket that you’ve cleaned out)
Two 2x2” pieces of wood, approx. 18” long (I used redwood pallet boards for all wood on this project)
Two 2x2” pieces of wood, approx. 4 to 5” long
One 2x2” piece of wood, approx. 6” long
Front fork set from a kid’s BMX bike (don’t need the handlebars)
One piece of 6” black PVC pipe (the type used for sewer cleanouts, etc), approx. 8” long & cut into two pieces vertically
4 sets of nuts/bolts/washers – approx. 1.5” long (enough to go through forks and piece of PVC pipe)
2 sets of nuts/bolts/washers – approx. 4.5” long (enough to go through your 2x2 boards to clamp together)
4 wood screws, 2.5” or 3” long
1 pallet block (ensure all nails/screws are removed)
1 set of nuts/bolts/washers – approx.. 6” long (enough to go through hand crank and the 2x2 board
1 piece of wire (heavy gauge – like fence wrapping wire), enough to wrap around the bucket a couple times so you have places to hook bungee cords to. I used approx. 4’ of wire
Tools Needed:
Band Saw
Reciprocating Saw
Draw knife
Drill press
Drill & a few different drill bits
Hole saw bits (optional – can use the band saw too)
Impact driver
Circular Saw
Chop/Miter saw
Wrench & socket set
Utility knife
¼” chisel
Pencil
Tape measure
Sand paper (from 80-grit to 2000 grit)
Hand file
Small wood lathe
Sanding sponges (medium and fine grit)
End cutting pliers (dull is fine – you’re not cutting anything – just prying nails from blocks)
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – A BMX bike front fork set:
We had a leftover kid’s BMX bike that my husband had picked up at a used store for 8.00. He used the crankset for another project he made. The front fork set had been sitting around, so I thought I’d use it, as it has free-spinning bearings. I used a reciprocating saw with a metal-cutting blade to cut the front fork set loose from the frame just behind where it was welded together.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Tub & Supporting Frame:
My wash tub is a leftover, heavy-duty 5-gal bucket. I happened to have an old Behr latex paint bucket that we’d used up, let dry, and then peeled out the dry latex paint remnants. The frame is made from pallet wood. To begin the frame, I started with with the two 2x2 x18” pieces of wood. I placed them across the top of the bucket, side by side and used clamps to hold them together. I marked the outside and inside diameters of the bucket with a pencil on the bottom sides of the wood. Next, I used a band saw to cut notches into the wood along the cut lines, approx. 3/8” deep. It just needs to be deep enough to create a channel so the wood frame will sit securely on top of the bucket. I used a chisel to clean up along the ends of the curves that the band saw couldn’t cut.
Find the approximate center of the two boards, and if you have them clamped tightly, you could use a hole saw to drill one hole down between the two for where it will clamp around the top tube. If not, you can use a band saw and cut the half-circles out. My cut was a little crooked, so I just notched around my bad prep job. I’d suggest you cut it more evenly, haha! Then I re-clamped the boards together and drilled two holes, equidistant from the center hole. The bolts will clamp the top tube in between these two boards. Sand the boards down the way you want. They don’t have to be perfect.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Correcting my error (do yours right and skip this step):
I test-fitted mine, and because of the crooked frame cut, it caused it to slip a little when I tried it, so the two shorter 2x2” boards were my solution. If you cut straight, you may not need them. Repeat the hole cutting process, as these two smaller boards will squeeze tightly around the top tube, basically clamping all 4” of the top tube. I screwed these two smaller boards together and then down on top of the longer boards to anchor the tube tightly.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Woodturning!
To make the handle, I used a pallet block. It is CRITICAL when using a lathe, or most of your saws, to remove any nails or screws. I used a circular saw to make shallow cuts around the nails that were cut flush when I dismantled pallets with a reciprocating saw. After cutting close to the nails, I made more cuts around the edge that I just sliced across so I’d be able to chisel the wood away easily to expose a bit of nail top. Next, I chiseled the wood away, exposing about ¼” of the nail heads, and used an old pair of end-cutting pliers. The rolled cutting end does a great job of clamping onto the exposed nail, and then allows you to roll the pliers over and pull the deeply-embedded nails out easily.
Identify the approximate centers of your block. Use a ruler and draw a line from one corner to the other diagonally. Do the same in the other direction. X marks the spot! Do this on both of the end-grain ends of the block and carefully center it into the lathe. I used a draw knife to round over the edges. You can use a band saw or other tools if you choose, but a draw knife is fast and convenient for me. I turned the wood into the shape of an old-style hand-crank drill. Those old handles are a good fit for my hands, and I know my husband won’t be doing it, haha! I turned it, smoothed it down, starting with 80-grit sponges, all the way down to 2000 grit paper while still on the lathe. I removed it and cut the excess wood off, then sanded the ends. Next I turned the horizontal piece of handle from more pallet wood – the last piece of 2x2x6” wood. Find the centers again and load it into the lathe. You could chip or sand down a dowel instead, but I didn’t have any leftover dowels. Besides, I only needed about 2-3” of round wood that’ll fit into the round-shaped clamp at the top end of the top tube – where the handle bars clamp in. I turned it down to the size I needed, and then rounded over the edges just so if I hit my knuckles, it wouldn’t be too uncomfortable.
I used a drill press and a wood-boring bit to drill a centered hole through the handle knob and then through the location on the horizontal piece of wood. Cut it loose around the size of your bolt so it’ll turn freely like a drill handle.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – hardware stackup on crank knob assembly:
The hardware stackup is as follows: Long machine bolt, large washer, crank knob, large washer, connecting wood piece, large washer, and either a nylock or, if you don’t have those, I just used two bolts and tightened them against themselves so that the handle could turn freely. Bolt the crank knob assembly into the handlebar grip point and secure.
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – wash paddles (the agitator):
To agitate the dirty rags, I had to come up with something that would be a little flexible, but very durable. So, I used a piece of large, black PVC pipe – I think it was left over from when we installed a new cleanout drain on our 1920’s home. I cut a short piece off of the long tube – approximately 8” with the reciprocating saw, and then split it in half. I used the band saw to round over the corners, and then a hand file to smooth over the edges. It doesn’t have to be perfect; just not so rough that it’ll snag and tear your terry-cloth rags.
Next, clamp them onto the forks, in whatever pattern you want. You can stagger the height, or change the curve directions; it’s up to you. I put mine the same direction, but staggered the height. Drill two holes through the paddles and all the way through the forks. Hardware stackup: Bolt, tooth-washer, paddle, fork, tooth washer, nut. Repeat for the 2nd paddle, so you’ll have four holes to drill total (or more if you make your paddles bigger).
Hand-Crank Wash Tub – Putting it all together:
Final assembly begins now! Install your top tube in between your first two boards you cut, and secure tightly with bolts/nuts. Ensure that your tube assembly is level, or the paddles will slap up against the sides of the bucket and create drag. Put the entire assembly into the bucket and align the grooves on the two mounting boards onto the edges of the bucket. Secure with bungee cords. I did a non-permanent mounting so if anything got tangled, I could just unhook the bungees and pull it all out easily. However, you can mount the assembly any way you choose.
Now, time to give her a twirl! My assembly WORKED – other than the oops I listed above. With the extra little corrective boards I added, it stays level and slaps the dirty rags around. This probably seems like an excessively long post for such a little project, but I wanted to make this and not spend a single dime, and accomplished it! Are there other ways to make hand-crank washers? Sure. But I’ve got one load of rags that have been washed already so far. :D
It is always a joy to capture this beauty in the harbour , she sailed in a few minutes before I was due to leave as darkness had began to fall .
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
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 447a. Photo: Dorothy Wilding.
Benita Hume (14 October 1907 – 1 November 1967) was an English theatre and film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955, from the silent film era to sound film.
Brunette Benita Hume, born in London in 1907, did the RADA theatre academy and started to act on stage in 1924. From 1925 she played small parts in British cinema e.g. in Alfred Hitchcock's Easy Virtue (1927), and she had her first major part in the spy drama Second to None (Jack Raymond, 1927). She was one of the Sanger sisters in The Constant Nymph (Adrian Brunel, 1928), starring Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton, and had the female lead in the period piece Balaclava (Maurice Elvey, Milton Rosmer, 1928), set during the Crimean War. Elvey shot the silent version, but Rosmer reshot much to turn it into a talkie. In A South Sea Bubble (T. Hayes Hunter, 1928) Hume was paired again with Novello, but now as leading lady. Again Brunel directed her in A Light Woman (1928), in which she was the star, while she was the title character in The Lady of the Lake (James A. FitzPatrick, 1928). In the science fiction High Treason (Maurice Elvey, 1929), shot both as silent and sound version, pacifist women led by Hume's character and her father unite to prevent overheated leaders of the US and United Europe (it is SF!) and war mongering financiers and agitators from engineering a second world war. Hume next played in two more crime films: The Clue of the New Pin (Athur Maude, 1929) and the German-British coproduction The Wrecker (Géza von Bolváry, 1929).
In 1930 Benita Hume went to the US to act in her first Broadway play: Ivor Novello's Symphony in Two Flats (1930). In the same year she acted in the UK film version of the play. She continued to act in various British crime films and dramas by Maurice Elvey and others. In 1931 she would divorce her first husband, Eric Otto Siepmann, whom she had married in 1926. After one Warner production shot at their UK studios in 1932, Hume also started a prolific even if short-lived career as leading lady in Hollywood cinema, though she never became huge star. Between 1932 and 1933 Hume acted in 11 American films, including the impostors story Diamond Cut Diamond (Maurice Elvey, Fred Niblo, 1932), with Adolphe Menjou, the press drama Clear All Wires! (George Hill, 1933) with Lee Tracy, and Hume's last American film, The Worst Woman in Paris? (Monta Bell, 1933). From the second half of 1934 Hume acted in British films again. For some films she was occasionally called to the US again, e.g. for Tarzan Escapes (Richard Thorpe, 1936), though not as the female star of the films anymore. In 1938 Hume quit film acting altogether, though she continued with radio and TV work.
In 1938 Benita Hume married British actor Ronald Colman, with whom she appeared on the Jack Benny radio show and on the radio show The Halls of Ivy (1950-1952). They co-owned a resort in California, and had one daughter. After Colman's death in 1958, Hume remarried with British actor George Saunders in 1959. They remained together till her death. Benita Hume died in 1967 at Egerton, Kent, UK, due to bone cancer.
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The statue to Charles Stewart Parnell MP in Parnell Park, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.
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The statue is set on a block-like granite plinth with scabbled finish and 'Parnell' inscribed on the front (south) face.
The statue was created by Fred Conlen and is set within a small paved area overlooking Parnell Park, Rathdrum located near Parnell’s home of Avondale House.
A small plaque set into the retaining wall behind the monument states that it was unveiled by President Mary Robinson in September 1991.
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891 and Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882.
He served as an member of parliament from 1875 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1890.
Born into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning family, he was a land reform agitator, founder in 1879 of the Irish National Land League.
He became leader of the Home Rule League, operating independently of the Liberal Party, winning great influence by his balancing of constitutional, radical, and economic issues, and by his skilful use of parliamentary procedure. He was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, in 1882, but he was released when he renounced violent extra-Parliamentary action. The same year, he reformed the Home Rule League as the Irish Parliamentary Party, which he controlled minutely as Britain's first disciplined democratic party.
The hung parliament of 1885 saw him hold the balance of power between William Gladstone's Liberal Party and Lord Salisbury's Conservative Party. His power was one factor in Gladstone's adoption of Home Rule as the central tenet of the Liberal Party.
The Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890, following the revelation of Parnell's long adulterous love affair, which led to many British Liberals (a number of them Nonconformists) refusing to work with him, and engendered strong opposition to him from Catholic bishops. He headed a small minority faction until his death in 1891.
Parnell is celebrated as the best organiser of a political party up to that time, and one of the most formidable figures in parliamentary history. Many believe that Irish Home Rule could have been achieved without conflict, if he had not been brought down by personal circumstances.
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
Kent State University May 4 Shooting Site, Kent, Portage County, Ohio
THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
BY JERRY M. LEWIS and THOMAS R. HENSLEY
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
In the nearly three decades since May 4, l970, a voluminous literature has developed analyzing the events of May 4 and their aftermath. Some books were published quickly, providing a fresh but frequently superficial or inaccurate analysis of the shootings (e.g., Eszterhas and Roberts, 1970; Warren, 1970; Casale and Paskoff, 1971; Michener, 1971; Stone, 1971; Taylor et al., 1971; and Tompkins and Anderson, 1971). Numerous additional books have been published in subsequent years (e.g., Davies, 1973; Hare, 1973; Hensley and Lewis, 1978; Kelner and Munves, 1980; Hensley, 1981; Payne, 1981; Bills, 1988; and Gordon, 1997). These books have the advantage of a broader historical perspective than the earlier books, but no single book can be considered the definitive account of the events and aftermath of May 4, l970, at Kent State University.(1)
Despite the substantial literature which exists on the Kent State shootings, misinformation and misunderstanding continue to surround the events of May 4. For example, a prominent college-level United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994), which is also used in high school advanced placement courses.(2) contains a picture of the shootings of May 4 accompanied by the following summary of events: "In May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen confronted student antiwar protestors with a tear gas barrage. Soon afterward, with no provocation, soldiers opened fire into a group of fleeing students. Four young people were killed, shot in the back, including two women who had been walking to class." (Norton et al., 1994, p. 732) Unfortunately, this short description contains four factual errors: (1) some degree of provocation did exist; (2) the students were not fleeing when the Guard initially opened fire; (3) only one of the four students who died, William Schroeder, was shot in the back; and (4) one female student, Sandy Schreuer, had been walking to class, but the other female, Allison Krause, had been part of the demonstration.
This article is an attempt to deal with the historical inaccuracies that surround the May 4 shootings at Kent State University by providing high school social studies teachers with a resource to which they can turn if they wish to teach about the subject or to involve students in research on the issue. Our approach is to raise and provide answers to twelve of the most frequently asked questions about May 4 at Kent State. We will also offer a list of the most important questions involving the shootings which have not yet been answered satisfactorily. Finally, we will conclude with a brief annotated bibliography for those wishing to explore the subject further.
WHY WAS THE OHIO NATIONAL GUARD CALLED TO KENT?
The decision to bring the Ohio National Guard onto the Kent State University campus was directly related to decisions regarding American involvement in the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States in 1968 based in part on his promise to bring an end to the war in Vietnam. During the first year of Nixon's presidency, America's involvement in the war appeared to be winding down. In late April of 1970, however, the United States invaded Cambodia and widened the Vietnam War. This decision was announced on national television and radio on April 30, l970, by President Nixon, who stated that the invasion of Cambodia was designed to attack the headquarters of the Viet Cong, which had been using Cambodian territory as a sanctuary.
Protests occurred the next day, Friday, May 1, across United States college campuses where anti-war sentiment ran high. At Kent State University, an anti-war rally was held at noon on the Commons, a large, grassy area in the middle of campus which had traditionally been the site for various types of rallies and demonstrations. Fiery speeches against the war and the Nixon administration were given, a copy of the Constitution was buried to symbolize the murder of the Constitution because Congress had never declared war, and another rally was called for noon on Monday, May 4.
Friday evening in downtown Kent began peacefully with the usual socializing in the bars, but events quickly escalated into a violent confrontation between protestors and local police. The exact causes of the disturbance are still the subject of debate, but bonfires were built in the streets of downtown Kent, cars were stopped, police cars were hit with bottles, and some store windows were broken. The entire Kent police force was called to duty as well as officers from the county and surrounding communities. Kent Mayor Leroy Satrom declared a state of emergency, called Governor James Rhodes' office to seek assistance, and ordered all of the bars closed. The decision to close the bars early increased the size of the angry crowd. Police eventually succeeded in using tear gas to disperse the crowd from downtown, forcing them to move several blocks back to the campus.
The next day, Saturday, May 2, Mayor Satrom met with other city officials and a representative of the Ohio National Guard who had been dispatched to Kent. Mayor Satrom then made the decision to ask Governor Rhodes to send the Ohio National Guard to Kent. The mayor feared further disturbances in Kent based upon the events of the previous evening, but more disturbing to the mayor were threats that had been made to downtown businesses and city officials as well as rumors that radical revolutionaries were in Kent to destroy the city and the university. Satrom was fearful that local forces would be inadequate to meet the potential disturbances, and thus about 5 p.m. he called the Governor's office to make an official request for assistance from the Ohio National Guard.
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ON SATURDAY MAY 2 AND SUNDAY MAY 3 AFTER THE GUARDS ARRIVED ON CAMPUS?
Members of the Ohio National Guard were already on duty in Northeast Ohio, and thus they were able to be mobilized quickly to move to Kent. As the Guard arrived in Kent at about 10 p.m., they encountered a tumultuous scene. The wooden ROTC building adjacent to the Commons was ablaze and would eventually burn to the ground that evening, with well over 1,000 demonstrators surrounding the building. Controversy continues to exist regarding who was responsible for setting fire to the ROTC building, but radical protestors were assumed to be responsible because of their actions in interfering with the efforts of firemen to extinguish the fire as well as cheering the burning of the building. Confrontations between Guardsmen and demonstrators continued into the night, with tear gas filling the campus and numerous arrests being made.
Sunday, May 3 was a day filled with contrasts. Nearly 1,000 Ohio National Guardsmen occupied the campus, making it appear like a military war zone. The day was warm and sunny, however, and students frequently talked amicably with Guardsmen. Ohio Governor James Rhodes flew to Kent on Sunday morning, and his mood was anything but calm. At a press conference, he issued a provocative statement calling campus protestors the worst type of people in America and stating that every force of law would be used to deal with them. Rhodes also indicated that he would seek a court order declaring a state of emergency. This was never done, but the widespread assumption among both Guard and University officials was that a state of martial law was being declared in which control of the campus resided with the Guard rather than University leaders and all rallies were banned. Further confrontations between protesters and guardsmen occurred Sunday evening, and once again rocks, tear gas, and arrests characterized a tense campus.
WHAT TYPE OF RALLY WAS HELD AT NOON ON MAY 4?
At the conclusion of the anti-war rally on Friday, May 1, student protest leaders had called for another rally to be held on the Commons at noon on Monday, May 4. Although University officials had attempted on the morning of May 4 to inform the campus that the rally was prohibited, a crowd began to gather beginning as early as 11 a.m. By noon, the entire Commons area contained approximately 3,000 people. Although estimates are inexact, probably about 500 core demonstrators were gathered around the Victory Bell at one end of the Commons, another 1,000 people were "cheerleaders" supporting the active demonstrators, and an additional 1,500 people were spectators standing around the perimeter of the Commons. Across the Commons at the burned-out ROTC building stood about 100 Ohio National Guardsmen carrying lethal M-1 military rifles.
Substantial consensus exists that the active participants in the rally were primarily protesting the presence of the Guard on campus, although a strong anti-war sentiment was also present. Little evidence exists as to who were the leaders of the rally and what activities were planned, but initially the rally was peaceful.
WHO MADE THE DECISION TO BAN THE RALLY OF MAY 4?
Conflicting evidence exists regarding who was responsible for the decision to ban the noon rally of May 4. At the 1975 federal civil trial, General Robert Canterbury, the highest official of the Guard, testified that widespread consensus existed that the rally should be prohibited because of the tensions that existed and the possibility that violence would again occur. Canterbury further testified that Kent State President Robert White had explicitly told Canterbury that any demonstration would be highly dangerous. In contrast, White testified that he could recall no conversation with Canterbury regarding banning the rally.
The decision to ban the rally can most accurately be traced to Governor Rhodes' statements on Sunday, May 3 when he stated that he would be seeking a state of emergency declaration from the courts. Although he never did this, all officials -- Guard, University, Kent -- assumed that the Guard was now in charge of the campus and that all rallies were illegal. Thus, University leaders printed and distributed on Monday morning 12,000 leaflets indicating that all rallies, including the May 4 rally scheduled for noon, were prohibited as long as the Guard was in control of the campus.
WHAT EVENTS LED DIRECTLY TO THE SHOOTINGS?
Shortly before noon, General Canterbury made the decision to order the demonstrators to disperse. A Kent State police officer standing by the Guard made an announcement using a bullhorn. When this had no effect, the officer was placed in a jeep along with several Guardsmen and driven across the Commons to tell the protestors that the rally was banned and that they must disperse. This was met with angry shouting and rocks, and the jeep retreated. Canterbury then ordered his men to load and lock their weapons, tear gas canisters were fired into the crowd around the Victory Bell, and the Guard began to march across the Commons to disperse the rally. The protestors moved up a steep hill, known as Blanket Hill, and then down the other side of the hill onto the Prentice Hall parking lot as well as an adjoining practice football field. Most of the Guardsmen followed the students directly and soon found themselves somewhat trapped on the practice football field because it was surrounded by a fence. Yelling and rock throwing reached a peak as the Guard remained on the field for about 10 minutes. Several Guardsmen could be seen huddling together, and some Guardsmen knelt and pointed their guns, but no weapons were shot at this time. The Guard then began retracing their steps from the practice football field back up Blanket Hill. As they arrived at the top of the hill, 28 of the more than 70 Guardsmen turned suddenly and fired their rifles and pistols. Many guardsmen fired into the air or the ground. However, a small portion fired directly into the crowd. Altogether between 61 and 67 shots were fired in a 13-second period.
HOW MANY DEATHS AND INJURIES OCCURRED?
Four Kent State students died as a result of the firing by the Guard. The closest student was Jeffrey Miller, who was shot in the mouth while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot, a distance of approximately 270 feet from the Guard. Allison Krause was in the Prentice Hall parking lot; she was 330 feet from the Guardsmen and was shot in the left side of her body. William Schroeder was 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when he was shot in the left side of his back. Sandra Scheuer was also about 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when a bullet pierced the left front side of her neck.
Nine Kent State students were wounded in the 13-second fusillade. Most of the students were in the Prentice Hall parking lot, but a few were on the Blanket Hill area. Joseph Lewis was the student closest to the Guard at a distance of about 60 feet; he was standing still with Four men sit staring at a candle-lit stage, on which there are portraits of the four Kent State students who died as a result of the firing by the Guard.his middle finger extended when bullets struck him in the right abdomen and left lower leg. Thomas Grace was also approximately 60 feet from the Guardsmen and was wounded in the left ankle. John Cleary was over 100 feet from the Guardsmen when he was hit in the upper left chest. Alan Canfora was 225 feet from the Guard and was struck in the right wrist. Dean Kahler was the most seriously wounded of the nine students. He was struck in the small of his back from approximately 300 feet and was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Douglas Wrentmore was wounded in the right knee from a distance of 330 feet. James Russell was struck in the right thigh and right forehead at a distance of 375 feet. Robert Stamps was almost 500 feet from the line of fire when he was wounded in the right buttock. Donald Mackenzie was the student the farthest from the Guardsmen at a distance of almost 750 feet when he was hit in the neck.
WHY DID THE GUARDSMEN FIRE?
The most important question associated with the events of May 4 is why did members of the Guard fire into a crowd of unarmed students? Two quite different answers have been advanced to this question: (1) the Guardsmen fired in self-defense, and the shootings were therefore justified and (2) the Guardsmen were not in immediate danger, and therefore the shootings were unjustified.
The answer offered by the Guardsmen is that they fired because they were in fear of their lives. Guardsmen testified before numerous investigating commissions as well as in federal court that they felt the demonstrators were advancing on them in such a way as to pose a serious and immediate threat to the safety of the Guardsmen, and they therefore had to fire in self-defense. Some authors (e.g., Michener, 1971 and Grant and Hill, 1974) agree with this assessment. Much more importantly, federal criminal and civil trials have accepted the position of the Guardsmen. In a 1974 federal criminal trial, District Judge Frank Battisti dismissed the case against eight Guardsmen indicted by a federal grand jury, ruling at mid-trial that the government's case against the Guardsmen was so weak that the defense did not have to present its case. In the much longer and more complex federal civil trial of 1975, a jury voted 9-3 that none of the Guardsmen were legally responsible for the shootings. This decision was appealed, however, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a new trial had to be held because of the improper handling of a threat to a jury member.
The legal aftermath of the May 4 shootings ended in January of 1979 with an out-of-court settlement involving a statement signed by 28 defendants(3) as well as a monetary settlement, and the Guardsmen and their supporters view this as a final vindication of their position. The financial settlement provided $675,000 to the wounded students and the parents of the students who had been killed. This money was paid by the State of Ohio rather than by any Guardsmen, and the amount equaled what the State estimated it would cost to go to trial again. Perhaps most importantly, the statement signed by members of the Ohio National Guard was viewed by them to be a declaration of regret, not an apology or an admission of wrongdoing:
In retrospect, the tragedy of May 4, 1970 should not have occurred. The students may have believed that they were right in continuing their mass protest in response to the Cambodian invasion, even though this protest followed the posting and reading by the university of an order to ban rallies and an order to disperse. These orders have since been determined by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to have been lawful.
Some of the Guardsmen on Blanket Hill, fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were in danger. Hindsight suggests that another method would have resolved the confrontation. Better ways must be found to deal with such a confrontation.
We devoutly wish that a means had been found to avoid the May 4th events culminating in the Guard shootings and the irreversible deaths and injuries. We deeply regret those events and are profoundly saddened by the deaths of four students and the wounding of nine others which resulted. We hope that the agreement to end the litigation will help to assuage the tragic memories regarding that sad day.
A starkly different interpretation to that of the Guards' has been offered in numerous other studies of the shootings, with all of these analyses sharing the common viewpoint that primary responsibility for the shootings lies with the Guardsmen. Some authors (e.g., Stone, 1971; Davies, 1973; and Kelner and Munves, 1980) argue that the Guardsmen's lives were not in danger. Instead, these authors argue that the evidence shows that certain members of the Guard conspired on the practice football field to fire when they reached the top of Blanket Hill. Other authors (e.g., Best, 1981 and Payne, 1981) do not find sufficient evidence to accept the conspiracy theory, but they also do not find the Guard self-defense theory to be plausible. Experts who find the Guard primarily responsible find themselves in agreement with the conclusion of the Scranton Commission (Report , 1970, p. 87): "The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."
WHAT HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTINGS?
While debate still remains about the extent to which the Guardsmen's lives were in danger at the moment they opened fire, little doubt can exist that their lives were indeed at stake in the immediate aftermath of the shootings. The 13-second shooting that resulted in four deaths and nine wounded could have been followed by an even more tragic and bloody confrontation. The nervous and fearful Guardsmen retreated back to the Commons, facing a large and hostile crowd which realized that the Guard had live ammunition and had used it to kill and wound a large number of people. In their intense anger, many demonstrators were willing to risk their own lives to attack the Guardsmen, and there can be little doubt that the Guard would have opened fire again, this time killing a much larger number of students.
A man and young boy stare up at a May 4th Memorial.Further tragedy was prevented by the actions of a number of Kent State University faculty marshals, who had organized hastily when trouble began several days earlier. Led by Professor Glenn Frank, the faculty members pleaded with National Guard leaders to allow them to talk with the demonstrators, and then they begged the students not to risk their lives by confronting the Guardsmen. After about 20 minutes of emotional pleading, the marshals convinced the students to leave the Commons.
Back at the site of the shootings, ambulances had arrived and emergency medical attention had been given to the students who had not died immediately. The ambulances formed a screaming procession as they rushed the victims of the shootings to the local hospital.
The University was ordered closed immediately, first by President Robert White and then indefinitely by Portage County Prosecutor Ronald Kane under an injunction from Common Pleas Judge Albert Caris. Classes did not resume until the Summer of 1970, and faculty members engaged in a wide variety of activities through the mail and off-campus meetings that enabled Kent State students to finish the semester.
WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PHOTO OF THE YOUNG WOMAN CRYING OUT IN HORROR OVER THE DYING BODY OF ONE OF THE STUDENTS?
A photograph of Mary Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, screaming over the body of Jeffery Miller appeared on the front pages of newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and the photographer, John Filo, was to win a Pulitzer Prize for the picture. The photo has taken on a life and importance of its own. This analysis looks at the photo, the photographer, and the impact of the photo.
The Mary Vecchio picture shows her on one knee screaming over Jeffrey Miller's body. Mary told one of us that she was calling for help because she felt she could do nothing (Personal Interview, 4/4/94). Miller is lying on the tarmac of the Prentice Hall parking lot. One student is standing near the Miller body closer than Vecchio. Four students are seen in the immediate background.
John Filo, a Kent State photography major in 1970, continues to works as a professional newspaper photographer and editor. He was near the Prentice Hall parking lot when the Guard fired. He saw bullets hitting the ground, but he did not take cover because he thought the bullets were blanks. Of course, blanks cannot hit the ground.
WHAT WAS THE LONG-TERM FACULTY RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTINGS?
Three hours after the shootings Kent State closed and was not to open for six weeks as a viable university. When it resumed classes in the Summer of 1970, its faculty was charged with three new responsibilities, their residues remaining today.
A student holds a candle at night to remember the victims of the May 4th shootings.First, we as a University faculty had to bring aid and comfort to our own. This began earlier on with faculty trying to finish the academic quarter with a reasonable amount of academic integrity. It had ended about at mid-term examinations. However, the faculty voted before the week was out to help students complete the quarter in any way possible. Students were advised to study independently until they were contacted by individual professors. Most of the professors organized their completion of courses around papers, but many gave lectures in churches and in homes in the community of Kent and surrounding communities. For example, Norman Duffy, an award-winning teacher, gave off-campus chemistry lectures and tutorial sessions in Kent and Cleveland. His graduate students made films of laboratory sessions and mailed them to students.
Beyond helping thousands of students finish their courses, there were 1,900 students as well who needed help with gradation. Talking to students about courses allowed the faculty to do some counseling about the shootings, which helped the faculty as much in healing as it did students.
Second, the University faculty was called upon to conduct research about May 4 communicating the results of this research through teaching and traditional writing about the tragedy. Many responded and created a solid body of scholarship as well as an extremely useful archive contributing to a wide range of activities in Summer of 1970 including press interviews and the Scranton Commission.
Third, many saw as one of the faculty's challenges to develop alternative forms of protest and conflict resolution to help prevent tragedies such as the May 4 shootings and the killings at Jackson State 10 days after Kent State.
WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS?
Although we have attempted in this article to answer many of the most important and frequently asked questions about the May 4 shootings, our responses have sometimes been tentative because many important questions remain unanswered. It thus seems important to ask what are the most significant questions which yet remain unanswered about the May 4 events. These questions could serve as the basis for research projects by students who are interested in studying the shootings in greater detail.
(1) Who was responsible for the violence in downtown Kent and on the Kent State campus in the three days prior to May 4? As an important part of this question, were "outside agitators" primarily responsible? Who was responsible for setting fire to the ROTC building?
(2) Should the Guard have been called to Kent and Kent State University? Could local law enforcement personnel have handled any situations? Were the Guard properly trained for this type of assignment?
(3) Did the Kent State University administration respond appropriately in their reactions to the demonstrations and with Ohio political officials and Guard officials?
(4) Would the shootings have been avoided if the rally had not been banned? Did the banning of the rally violate First Amendment rights?
(5) Did the Guardsmen conspire to shoot students when they huddled on the practice football field? If not, why did they fire? Were they justified in firing?
(6) Who was ultimately responsible for the events of May 4, l970?
WHY SHOULD WE STILL BE CONCERNED ABOUT MAY 4, 1970 AT KENT STATE?
In Robert McNamara's (1995) book, "In Retrospect:The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" is a way to begin is an illustration of the this process. In it he says that United States policy towards Vietnam was "... terribly wrong and we owe it to future generations to explain why."
The May 4 shootings at Kent State need to be remembered for several reasons. First, the shootings have come to symbolize a great American tragedy which occurred at the height of the Vietnam War era, a period in which the nation found itself deeply divided both politically and culturally. The poignant picture of Mary Vecchio kneeling in agony over Jeffrey Miller's body, for example, will remain forever Students gather in a circle, holding hands around a May 4th memorial to remember the victims of the Guard shootings.as a reminder of the day when the Vietnam War came home to America. If the Kent State shootings will continue to be such a powerful symbol, then it is certainly important that Americans have a realistic view of the facts associated with this event. Second, May 4 at Kent State and the Vietnam War era remain controversial even today, and the need for healing continues to exist. Healing will not occur if events are either forgotten or distorted, and hence it is important to continue to search for the truth behind the events of May 4 at Kent State. Third, and most importantly, May 4 at Kent State should be remembered in order that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. The Guardsmen in their signed statement at the end of the civil trials recognized that better ways have to be found to deal with these types of confrontations. This has probably already occurred in numerous situations where law enforcement officials have issued a caution to their troops to be careful because "we don't want another Kent State." Insofar as this has happened, lessons have been learned, and the deaths of four young Kent State students have not been in vain.
The day was quiet.
I had heard about an incident on the Michigan Avenue bridge earlier that resulted in a confrontation and some arrests.
Someone shot me a text about some more arrests on Jackson.
At the Bowman Statue there was nothing but peace and love.
And about a bazillion cops.
It was a major show of force and it seemed like every cop in the city was geared up Downtown.
Only an idiot would try to pull anything with that kind of law enforcement presence.
And I've never seen so many Federal Protective Service Chevy Tahoes.
They pretty much surrounded every Federal building in the city.
I walked around and tried to catch a vibe.
I really couldn't.
Here and there I tuned into conversations people were having about politics and such...
but there was no real anger out there...
I couldn't identify any 'agitators.'
I could be wrong but I think that there might be sporadic incidents and arrests...
but I didn't get a feeling that things were gonna get crazy.
We'll see tommorow.
There's a couple of marches and demonstrations planned and those always create a different atmosphere.
There were a lot of faces that didn't look familiar to me.
A lot of people have come in from 'out of town.'
If anyone's gonna pull some shit it's those guys.
And as the weekend winds down they're gonna be more likely to get crazy.
I think tomorrow I'll be able to get more 'dialed into it.'
Feel the mojo a little bit more.
I hope you're feeling the Friday-Love!
I'll try and keep you posted about what's happenin' on the street here in Chicago.
Round and Round
I almost didn't use this today since Ken used his, but I didn't think he'd mind if I used mine.
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
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
Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Exhibition 'Engineer, Agitator, Constructor - The Artist Reinvented'
'Programm für die Städtischen Bühnen Hannover - Opernhaus' by 'Kurt Schwitters' (1932)
'Programm für die Städtischen Bühnen Hannover - Opernhaus' by 'Kurt Schwitters' (1930-1931)
'Brochure for Celle Volks Möbel (People's furniture)' by 'Kurt Schwitters' (ca. 1929)
'Brochure for Edler & Krische' by 'Kurt Schwitters' (1927-1928)
DSC02006
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
CR4498
Foton Auman GTL2535
670-FE-2
Probably a 2015-16
Playa del Carmen, Q.Roo, Mexico
[Fuji X-E1 + Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8-4R LM OIS]
June 17, 1966: We Shall Overcome
Deep in my heart I do believe… We shall over come.
Now I join hands often with students and others behind jail bars singing it: “We shall over come.”
Sometimes we’ve had tears in our eyes when we joined together to sing it, but we still decided to sing it! “We shall over come.”
Lord before this victory is won some will have to get thrown in jail some more but we shall over come. Don’t worry about us, before the victory is won some of us will lose jobs, but we shall over come…
Before the victory is won, even some will have to face physical death. But if physical death is the price that some must pay, to free their children from a permanent psychological death.. then nothing shall be more redemptive… We shall over come.
Before the victory is won.. some will be misunderstood and called bad names and dismissed as rebel-rousers and agitators… But we shall over come.
and I’ll tell you why.
We shall over come because the arch of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
We shall over come because Carlyle is right: “No lie can live forever."
We shall over come because William Collin Bryant is right: “Truth crushed to earth will rise again."
We shall over come because James Russel Lowell is right: “Truth forever on the scaffold.. Wrong forever on the throne… Yet that scaffold sways the future. And behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadows, keeping watch above his own."
We shall over come because the Bible is right… “You shall reap what you sow."
We shall over come… Deep in my heart I do believe! We shall over come.
And with this faith… We will go out and adjourn the counsels of despair and bring new light into the dark chambers of pessimism. And we will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. And this will be a great America! We will be the participants in making it so…
And so as I leave you this evening I say… “Walk together children! Don’t you get weary!”
Polaroid Automatic100 Land Camera + Fuji Film FP 100c
Biscuit, from the Italian biscotto, baked twice, actually rusk, a fine, light pastry made mainly from flour, eggs, butter and sugar. The most important kind of it are the English B. (so called because they were formerly made exclusively in England) or cakes (pron. kehks), which in recent times have been popular because of their high nutritional value, their easy digestibility and pleasing shape, as well as because of the convenience, to be able to be stored for a long time without changing the taste, for the purposes of housekeeping, especially nursing, and for use when travelling, have gained all the greater practical importance as the price is relatively low as a result of mass production and given the great variety of products sorts is given the opportunity to find something suitable for every special need. The production of the B. is now almost exclusively done with the help of machines. The substances used to prepare B. are first fed into the mixing machine, in which an agitator works them into a fairly firm dough. From here the dough is taken to the dough sheeter and, passing between heavy cast-iron rollers several times and in different directions, is rolled out into long sheets of rubbery consistency.
In order to obtain the desired shape, the dough is fed to the leveling and cutting machine (see figure below), in which a pair of rollers at B gives the plates, which are fed in at A, a precisely uniform thickness and connects them to form a continuous dough band , which, guided by cloths, passes under an apparatus C, which is provided with a large number of cutters, so that with each stroke of the machine dozens of B. are cut out and embossed. The pieces cut out fall onto an endless cloth, which they automatically place on the trays at F, while the leftover dough in the form of a net D is also caught by a cloth and placed on a table E. The occupied sheets then get into the oven, the facility differs from the usual name in that it is of significant length, and that by means of a mechan. Device the sheets are slowly moved through. The finished baked B. fall into boxes below; individual varieties are provided with cast or other decorations, which is done by hand. In the manufacture of the soft B. (Queens, etc.) the so-called Queens syringe is used, a device which is very similar to a sausage stuffing machine, and from which the dough is pressed out in long strands to be cut off as required. Of the hundreds of types of biscuit, they are excellent for breakfast and dessert: lunch, dessert, crackers, butter: with coffee, tea and chocolate: pic-nic, chocolate, cocoa nut, fine tea, coffee bread, biscuit rings; with ice cream, wine, liqueur, etc.: fancy routs, macaroons, ratafias, ginger nut, spice nut, cinnamon, almond drops; for children: Milk, Pearl, Leaflet, Nic-Nac, Star, Sugar Nuts; for sick people, especially those with stomach problems: Cracknel, Nusks, Soda, Diet, Albert, Water, Friedrichsdorfer Zwieback, waffles; for land and sea voyages: cabin, captain, tourist, mixed, queen, ship bread; to use for soups: Soup, Gem, Vanilla Drops. Especially in Germany, due to the high efficiency of local factories, the B. has become one of the most important trade items. In addition to the larger port places, Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Breslau, Magdeburg and others are also preferred. under consideration. In 1890, 6,543 quintals of such baked goods were imported into the German Empire, 2,214 of them from Switzerland and 1,340 from England; On the other hand, 16,421 quintals were exported, of which 2,704 went to China, 1,998 to Holland, 1,738 to the East Indies, and 1,409 to Venezuela. About two-thirds to three-fourths of these fine baked goods can be attributed to B.
In the crockery industry, B. denotes twice-fired unglazed porcelain (see Porcelain).
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Biskuit, vom ital. biscotto, zweimal gebacken, demnach eigentlich Zwieback, ein feines, leichtes, im wesentlichen aus Mehl, Eiern, Butter und Zucker hergestelltes Gebäck. Die wichtigste Art desselben bilden die englischen B. (so genannt, weil sie früher ausschließlich in England hergestellt wurden) oder Cakes (spr. kehks), die in neuerer Zeit ihres hohen Nährwerts, ihrer leichten Verdaulichkeit und gefälligen Form wegen sowie infolge der Annehmlichkeit, längere Zeit ohne Veränderung des Wohlgeschmacks aufbewahrt werden zu können, für die Zwecke der Haushaltung, insbesondere der Krankenpflege, und für den Gebrauch auf Reisen eine um so höhere praktische Bedeutung gewonnen haben, als infolge der Massenfabrikation der Preis verhältnismäßig niedrig und bei der großen Mannigfaltigkeit der Sorten die Möglichkeit gegeben ist, für jeden speciellen Bedarf Passendes zu finden. Die Herstellung der B. geschieht jetzt fast ausschließlich mit Hilfe von Maschinen. Die zur Bereitung von B. verwendeten Substanzen werden zunächst der Mischmaschine zugeführt, in der ein Rührwerk dieselben zu einem ziemlich festen Teig verarbeitet. Von hier aus wird der Teig auf die Teigwalzmaschine gebracht und, indem derselbe mehrmals und in verschiedenen Richtungen zwischen schweren gußeisernen Walzen hindurchgeht, zu langen Platten von gummiartiger Konsistenz ausgewalzt.
Um die gewünschte Form zu erhalten, kommt der Teig auf die Egalisier- und Ausstechmaschine (s. umstehende Abbildung), in der bei B ein Walzenpaar den Platten, die bei A aufgegeben werden, eine genau gleichmäßige Stärke erteilt und sie zu einem fortlaufenden Teigbande verbindet, das, durch Tücher geführt, unter einen Apparat C tritt, der mit einer großen Anzahl von Ausstechern versehen ist, sodaß bei jedem Hub der Maschine Dutzende von B. ausgestochen und geprägt werden. Die ausgestochenen Stücke fallen auf ein endloses Tuch, das sie selbstthätig bei F auf die Bleche ablegt, während die Teigreste in der Form eines Netzes D gleichfalls durch ein Tuch erfaßt und auf einen Tisch E abgelegt werden. Die belegten Bleche gelangen hierauf in den Backofen, dessen Einrichtung sich von der sonst üblichen namentlich dadurch unterscheidet, daß er von bedeutender Länge ist, und daß mittels einer mechan. Vorrichtung die Bleche langsam hindurchbewegt werden. Die fertig gebackenen B. fallen in untergestellte Kisten; einzelne Sorten werden noch mit Guß oder sonstigen Verzierungen versehen, was durch Handarbeit geschieht. Bei der Herstellung der weichen B. (der Queens u. s. w.) bedient man sich der sog. Queensspritze, einer Vorrichtung, die mit einer Wurstfüllmaschine große Ähnlichkeit hat, und aus welcher der Teig in langen Strängen ausgepreßt wird, um nach Erfordernis abgeschnitten zu werden. Von den nach Hunderten zählenden Biskuitsorten eignen sich vorzüglich zum Frühstück und Nachtisch: Lunch, Dessert, Cracker, Butter: zu Kaffee, Thee und Schokolade: Pic-Nic, Chocolate, Cocoa-Nut, Fine Tea, Kaffeebrot, Biskuitkringel; zu Eis, Wein, Liqueur u. s. w.: Fancy-Routs, Macaroons, Ratafias, Ginger-Nut, Spice-Nut, Cinnamon, Almond-Drops; für Kinder: Milk, Pearl, Leaflet, Nic-Nac, Star, Zuckernüsse; für Kranke, insbesondere Magenleidende: Cracknel, Nusks, Soda, Diet, Albert, Water, Friedrichsdorfer Zwieback, Waffeln; für Land- und Seereisen: Cabin, Captain, Tourist, Mixed, Queen, Schifssbrot; zum Gebrauch für Suppen: Soup, Gem, Vanille-Drops. Speciell in Deutschland sind, infolge der hohen Leistungsfähigkeit einheimischer Fabriken, die B. einer der wichtigsten Handelsartikel geworden. Außer den größern Hafenplätzen kommen vorzugsweise noch Berlin, Dresden, Köln, Breslau, Magdeburg u. a. in Betracht. Im Deutschen Reiche wurden 1890 an derartigen Backwaren 6543 Doppelcentner eingeführt, davon 2214 aus der Schweiz, 1340 aus England; dagegen 16421 Doppelcentner ausgeführt, davon 2704 nach China, 1998 nach Holland, 1738 nach Ostindien, 1409 nach Venezuela. Unter diesen feinern Backwaren dürften etwa zwei Drittel bis drei Viertel dem B. zuzurechnen sein.
In der Thonwarenindustrie bezeichnet man mit B. zweimal gebranntes unglasiertes Porzellan (s. Porzellan).
Design PSV VS 485 CD
Classification DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design,
Comf- V(3) C(3), E0, LfL, SF Oil rec,
d k+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
Builders Hellesøy Yard Løfallstrand
Port of reg. Fosnavaa g
Flag BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 071 800
IMO no 9470193
Delivery Date june 2010
Callsign C6ZY3
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
Deadweight: 5 486 t
Lightship: 3 069 t
Classification
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2 0 0 5
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging
of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Base oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Pot.water: 1 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Drillwater/ballast: 2 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Methanol: 1 x 0-75 m3 7.2 bar
Special Product: 1 x 0-75 m3 10.8 bar
Slop: 2 x 100 m3/hrs 7,0 bar
ORO: 8 x 0-100 m3/bar 7.0 bar
Cement / Barite: 2 x 30 m3/h 6.5 bar
CARGO MANI FOLDS
Manifolds midships each side inside safe haven and aft starboard and port side.
MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted
Main Engines: 4 x 1 901 kW Cat: Type 3 516 BTA
Main generators: 4 x AvK DSG 86 M1-4W. (2 028 kVA)
Harbour & Emergency Engine: 1 x 265 kW Volvo Penta D9A
Harbour & Emergency generator: 1 x 223 kVA. UC.M274H-1
690V; 60Hz
MAIN PROPULSION
Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi: 1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3/ 24 hrs
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 / 24 hrs
BRIDGE DES I GN: NA U T - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
DP S Y S TEM DYNPOS A U TR
Kongsberg DP II K-Pos
1 x Fanbeam Kongsberg Lazer Mk4.2
1 x Radascan
2 x DPS Kongsberg 200CM
2 x Vindsensor Gill
1 x Roll & Pitch Sea Tex MRU2
1 x DP motion Sea Tex MRU5
THRUSTER CONTROL
Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
BRIDGE WATCH MONITORING SYSTEM
Kongsberg Integrated Bridge
ACCOMMODATION 23 PERSONS
Cabins 13 off single cabins
5 off double cabins
1 off office
1 off Hospital
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons
Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons Viking
Mob boat: Norsafe type 655 makojet, 10 persons
Mob boat davit: 1 x HLT 3 500 TTS
Survival suits: 23 persons
INCINERATOR
1 x Teamtec. 500 000 kcal/h for solid waste, plastic and sludge oil.
STEAM GENERATOR
1x 1 450 kW and el.heating 4 x 10 kW
ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS
1 x Sat. TV: Seatel
1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners and 1x DVD
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
DEC K EQUIPMENT
Windless 2 x Windlass Mooring winch
Mooring 4 x Mooring lines 180 m each
Capstan 2 x 8t, NMD
Anchor chain 5225 m Ø 46 mm steel grade NVK3
Cargo securing winch 6 x 3t SWL. NMD CSW-3
Placed on each side Shelter Deck.
Tugger Winch 2 x SWL 15t, type TU-15
Deck Crane PS Basket transfer 1 x 3 t/13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPK 115
Deck Crane Stb. Cargo handling 1 x 3t /13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPT-80
ANTI ROLLING SYSTEM
2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system. 439.9 m3 (aft) and 159.6 m3 (fwd)
Navigation Equipment
1x Furuno FAR-2837S. S-band radar (10 cm)
1 x Furuno FCR-2827. X-band radar (3 cm)
1 x Autopilot. Simrad AP-50
3 x Gyro Simrad GC-80
2 x GPS Furuno GP-150
1 x AIS Furuno FA-150
1 x Speed Log. Skipper EML224
1 x Echo Sounder Furuno FE-700
1 x Speed repeater Skipper IR300
ECDIS. Furuno Tecdis T-2137
VDR. Furuno VR-3000
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GMDS S A 3
GSM Telephones. Samsung
Radar transponders. 1 x Jotron Tron SART
GMDSS hand portable VHF. Jotron Tron TR-20
UHF Portable radio. Motorola GP-340
Inmarsat-C. Furuno Felcom 15
Radio Station MF/HF. Furuno FS-2570C
Radio Station VHF/DSC. Furuno FM-8800S
DSC Terminal. MF/HF Furuno FS-2570C
NavTex. Furuno NX-700B
Manual EPIRB. Jotron 45 SX
Sarsat free float EPIRB. Jotron Tron 40S MkII
Internal Telephone System. Zenitel ACM-144-66/VO
Sound reception System. Vingtor
Fixed wiewlwaa terminal, Ericson G32/G36
Emergency Telephone System, Vingtor VSP-211-L
Public Announcement/GA Alarm: Zenitel VMA-2
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.
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