Egyptian mummies, both animals and people, had a number of uses:
- Mummy brown, a pigment used in paints in the 1800s;
- Mummia, a medical preparation made of ground-up mummies;
- firewood; and
- fuel for trains :D

Henryed:
I've just read that when a farmer in Egypt discovered a cemetery of 40,000 mummified CATS in the late 1800's.....these were shipped to England...as fertilizer at £4 per ton....
Now, that is what I call a very strange "Bulk Cargo".
(Cats were much revered animals back in ancient Egypt. And 'Mummified' a la Pharaohs!)
I claim the Ship Spotters Prize for "Weird comment of the week"......Regards! Steve.

Peter ..thank you for leading us to the interesting photos ...I have left a comment on the bottom for you to answer??

David
New Zealand

Sadly to see this beauty at the breakers yard. I still hoped, she could be preserved by the danish Udviklingsfonden.

Rgds
Arne

My father once worked on a tanker [url=http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=620705[Marina[/url] & still remembers those worst days when after one oil the crew (except the captain & chief engineer) had to wash manually all tanks before taking another oil.

Yes Denis, not to mention cement clinker, china clay, potash, stone chippings and any other bulk cargo you can think of. Hold had to be dry by the morning so you could start loading. Happy days.!!!!

Awful. Imagine cleaning the hold after coal, so you can take grain.

This ship - classic of old school!

It's not meant to be a Battleship Denis....only needs to be waterproof.
Cheers,
Steve.

Funny I thought they all have a hold like this but not where cargo & water are separated only by some 10 - 15 mm thick plates.