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Photographer:
Ken Smith [ View profile ]
Captured:
Feb 16, 2014
Title:
Marco Polo
Location:
Tilbury, United Kingdom
Photo Category:
Casualties
Added:
Feb 16, 2014
Views:
4,683
Image Resolution:
1,600 x 1,067

Description:

MARCO POLO 22,080gt Built 1965
What appears to be the damage to the ship when hit by a freak wave.
Tilbury Landing Stage
Feb 16th 2104

Vessel
particulars

Current name:
MARCO POLO

Former name(s):

 -  Aleksandr Pushkin (Until 1991 Jul)

 -  Aleksandr (Until 1991 Jan)

 -  Aleksandr Pushkin (Until 1991)

Current flag:
Tanzania
Home port:
Zanzibar
IMO:
6417097
Status:
Dead
Build year:
1965
Builder:
Nordic Yards Wismar - Wismar, Germany
Vessel Type:
Passenger (cruise) Ship
Gross tonnage:
22,080 tons
Summer DWT:
5,180 tons
Length:
176.3 m
Beam:
23.65 m
Draught:
8.2 m
Photos:
912 photos by 253 photographers

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This ship exists in the following categories:

Shipping - 4 photos

Cruise Ships and Liners - 7 photos

Ship Interior - 5 photos

Casualties - 1 photos

Passenger Vessels - 3 photos

Ships under Repair or Conversion - 2 photos

Ship's engine rooms - 3 photos

Ship's Deck - 11 photos

Cruise Ships and Liners built 1961-1970 - 876 photos

Photographers
of this ship

(253)

Glenn Towler

3 photos

Seatowage

1 photos

Hans Deijs

3 photos

Federico Bolognini

1 photos

Capt. Hilmar Snorrason

2 photos

Ken Smith

8 photos

Pieter_Inpijn

15 photos

bert pellegrom

1 photos

Folke Österman

22 photos

Edson de Lima Lucas

8 photos

Sinisa Aljinovic

1 photos

Gerolf Drebes

2 photos

adaf

2 photos

Benoit Donne

3 photos

Simon Kruyswijk

2 photos

Neill Rush

1 photos

Julien IMBERT

22 photos

Phil English

3 photos

Vedran Mlacic

4 photos

Marc Piché

9 photos

BRIAN FISHER

5 photos

simonwp

4 photos

n-nogues

1 photos

Allan RO

1 photos

Javier Bueno Iturbe

1 photos

Wil Weijsters

2 photos

TEDINGHAM

1 photos

John Jones

11 photos

DEREK SANDS

5 photos

Knut Helge Schistad

3 photos

Michael Hahn

1 photos

Manuel Moreno Mart

3 photos

Elisa Ahtiainen

1 photos

Juan Carlos Cilveti

1 photos

Michel Tremblay

4 photos

Tender

1 photos

Sondre

2 photos

kevin blair

2 photos

GEOFF HOATHER

2 photos

Gianpaolo

1 photos

Robert J Smith

9 photos

keltic

1 photos

Aleksi Lindström

8 photos

Yvon Perchoc

3 photos

Jacques Trempe

3 photos

Victor

2 photos

toni tuppurainen

2 photos

Eero Isotalo

2 photos

Anthony Vella

1 photos

Doug Newman

2 photos

friendship

3 photos

buddhaJoe

2 photos

michell

3 photos

Cpt. Lawrence Dalli

2 photos

Ulf Kornfeld

3 photos

M. S

1 photos

Birkir Agnarsson

1 photos

john white

8 photos

Eerik Laine

24 photos

bob_57

1 photos

Ostseefoto

1 photos

William Edward Burton

2 photos

Aad Hoogesteger

2 photos

Tomas

20 photos

Tomasello Letterio

1 photos

Malte Wulf

1 photos

Martin Melzer

1 photos

Arne Luetkenhorst

18 photos

John Grace

2 photos

Lu

1 photos

Arne J

1 photos

Eddie Walker

1 photos

JORGE MONTORO FORT

1 photos

Andreas Schlatterer

2 photos

Pedro Amaral

2 photos

Marc Boucher

10 photos

Geir Vinnes

2 photos

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1 photos

Willi Thiel

2 photos

Sydney Sinclair

9 photos

canberra97

2 photos

Malte Classens

3 photos

Paul Newland

1 photos

René Beauchamp

2 photos

Wayne ACourt

2 photos

Ingvar

1 photos

CedricH

1 photos

Marius Esman

1 photos

Colin Hunter

1 photos

Bartul Silic

1 photos

R.Trommel

1 photos

Henk Kouwenhoven

1 photos

Eduardo Fern

1 photos

Marcel & Ruud Coster

28 photos

Chad Carleton

1 photos

Moolen

7 photos

Jose Ricardo Rodriguez Montero

7 photos

Manuel Hernandez Lafuente

8 photos

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2 photos

eckhard uhrbrock

2 photos

John Mavin

5 photos

Hilmar Peschel

1 photos

Christian Krajewski

10 photos

Mats Brevik

6 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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3 photos

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11 photos

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1 photos

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6 photos

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7 photos

Ian Thomas

3 photos

Jukka Koskimies

15 photos

CaptMoto

1 photos

Martin Palardy

4 photos

Calum Fraser

2 photos

Jens Taxwedel

1 photos

Malcolm Cranfield

2 photos

Angel Luis Godar Moreira

7 photos

Guido Blokland

2 photos

Ian Boyle

11 photos

Juan Carlos C.

2 photos

Jens Boldt

3 photos

Bj

1 photos

scott william goudie

2 photos

Lyndon Henry

5 photos

Michel FLOCH

4 photos

Derek Lilley

2 photos

TomJones

6 photos

charlie umphray

1 photos

Pascal Bredel

4 photos

Willem Oldenburg

15 photos

Robbie Shaw

1 photos

Benny Elbæk Dahl

3 photos

Gordy

1 photos

Alec Sansen

1 photos

Dieter Luetkenhorst

3 photos

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6 photos

Patrick Kenealy

3 photos

Chris Howell

3 photos

Serge Beauchemin

1 photos

ROBERTO TONINI

3 photos

erwin willemse

11 photos

Ken Lubi

4 photos

Grant Butler

4 photos

Vitor Torres

1 photos

Clive Harvey

6 photos

Vitaliy

1 photos

Neil C McBride

10 photos

Edgar Rausandhaug

1 photos

Ian Busby

3 photos

Kenneth Karsten

2 photos

Daniel Capella

1 photos

Pekka Jarvinen

1 photos

Miguel T

1 photos

Esteban Gonz

1 photos

German Iluhin

2 photos

Lassi Liikanen

1 photos

wes pretty

2 photos

Kim Viktor

1 photos

Trevor Thornton

1 photos

Patrick Tschiedel

6 photos

Michael Neidig

2 photos

willie ryan

2 photos

Trevor Dry

1 photos

Wolfram Tribull

2 photos

Dennis J. Dubinsky

3 photos

Poul Erik Olsen

1 photos

frode adolfsen

15 photos

Wolfgang Barnitzke

3 photos

Jorge Fernandes

1 photos

RON DOBSON

2 photos

Gena Anfimov

23 photos

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10 photos

Christophe Dedieu

1 photos

Robert Foy

3 photos

DIMENG

3 photos

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2 photos

Tony Martin

18 photos

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2 photos

Perseefonee

1 photos

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1 photos

Kenno

3 photos

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1 photos

WalSha

3 photos

Doug Shaw

8 photos

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1 photos

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2 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

Pascal RITEAU

2 photos

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1 photos

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6 photos

Damien McCarthy

9 photos

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1 photos

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3 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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8 photos

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4 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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2 photos

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3 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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3 photos

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1 photos

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2 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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3 photos

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6 photos

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2 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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4 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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3 photos

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2 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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2 photos

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19 photos

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5 photos

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11 photos

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3 photos

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2 photos

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1 photos

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1 photos

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5 photos

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1 photos

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4 photos

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Hi Marcel & Ruud
The deleted photograph you refer to did not show the rope ladder and cradle above a window, this I understand was the damaged window and not those with what appears to tape around them.
Regards
Ken

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person
Hello,

Then you should also delete this picture Photo Admin. !!!

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person
I see from today's press that the ship has been repaired & has departed on it's current cruise.(Norway-Northern Lights)As per schedule.
Therein lies the heart of the matter.

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person
When I started as a young officer on the bridge in 1970 one of the first I learned from my elderly and fully experienced captain was to slow down the ship's speed in bad weather.

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person
Excellent Captain Ted and David Meare ..... I totally agree with both your comments. In any condition there will be a 'prevailing significant wave height' be it in a force 3 or storm force 10. They are not Freaks or Rogues they are there so beware ...ease back on the levers and they wont bother you so much. Love your description David ... very true.

David
Westport NZ

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person
I seem to recall that 50 years ago, the harder you kept your foot on the gas in storm conditions, the more 'freak' waves you'd see.

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person
BBC news piece on the incident. Including a video of the conditions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26216192

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person
Good "info" shot Ken,, but honestly I don,t believe in the FREAK-WAVE theory,,more in unusual bad seas where the ship should not have been. Too much accidents are nowadays explained by socalled freak-waves. A real freak wave and they would have real damage, like you see sometimes on S-African E coast.

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