HORIZON CRUSADER - IMO 6905252
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IACSman on Dec 23, 2009 10:16 (3 years ago) | |
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:-) Thanks for telling. Just asking since I still have a valid chief engineer license for steam propulsion, and there is not so many steam vessel's left trading, although some new deliveries of the LNG-carriers have steam propulsion.
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rd77 on Dec 23, 2009 09:41 (3 years ago) | |
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Yes, she was a steamship. She only kept going for so long because she was engaged in a Jones Act trade, otherwise she'd been scrapped years ago I guess...
Brgds. Ralph |
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IACSman on Dec 22, 2009 11:55 (3 years ago) | |
| :-( Sad. I'm not sure, but she had turbine propulsion? Quite a few US container vessels from that era was buildt with steam-turbines. Turbines, combined with the miserable box-ship market is perhaps not the best combination for a 40 year old vessel... |
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rd77 on Dec 22, 2009 11:18 (3 years ago) | |
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OK, thanks! Yes. I agree it's uncommon for US ships to be scrapped anywhere else than Brownsville or Chesapeake Bay in recent years. I did see somewhere else on Shipspotting that the CRUSADER had been laid up for over a year.
Brgds. Ralph |
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Paul Sullivan on Dec 22, 2009 04:21 (3 years ago) | |
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Ralph,
I'm not sure how many older ships Horizon lines may have laid up at the moment. I was suprised to see a vessel being towed up the Miss. for scrap, as most of the vessels scrapped in the U.S. seem to be taken to Brownsville Texas. The pilot said she was to be towed to a location to first cut down the house so she could be towed further up the river beyond Baton Rouge for the final dismantling. Rgds, Paul |
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rd77 on Dec 21, 2009 18:56 (3 years ago) | |
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Sad to see this floating antique go for scrap, but 40 years is a good run for any ship and certainly for a container ship.
I take it she will be scrapped locally in the US? Will Horizon Lines also be retiring its other oldies soon? Brgds. Ralph |
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