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Lolabelle

19-Jun-07, 13:29

We had huge storms a floods a couple of weeks ago and this washed up on a local beach at Newcastle.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Lolabelle_2007/ship005.jpg

Lolabelle

19-Jun-07, 13:31

Here is another one of the Pasha Bulka

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Lolabelle_2007/ship012-1.jpg

Ash

19-Jun-07, 13:33

wow that looks amazing!!:cool:

Lolabelle

19-Jun-07, 13:33

And here is one that was taken from the ship in the storm

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Lolabelle_2007/SELKIRK_SETTLER_1.jpg

Lolabelle

19-Jun-07, 13:36

And at night

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Lolabelle_2007/ship001.jpg

buggyracer

19-Jun-07, 14:03

wow!! a bit of a headache that one lol.

Tubthumper

19-Jun-07, 14:06

The boat parked on the beach is impressive, but what a beautiful town. Is that where you live?

Victoria

19-Jun-07, 14:21

Lolabelle - my friend lives there and sent me pictures too!!!

JimH

19-Jun-07, 16:39

Do you think they would let me come down and play with it?

lynne duncan

19-Jun-07, 16:40

would love to build a sandcastle on that beach

johno

19-Jun-07, 17:52

Phew, can you just imagine that coming onto Reiss or Freswick beach about 80 or 100 years ago , the famous Keiss pirates would make short work of that.
good pics though 10 out of 10 to the picture taker.
Sorry Keiss just going with hearsay that has been handed down throughout the generations [lol]

Sporran

19-Jun-07, 19:00

The boat parked on the beach is impressive, but what a beautiful town. Is that where you live?

I agree with Tubthumper, and am curious to know if that's where you live too, Lolabelle. If so, would love to see more photos of the place! :)

Geo

19-Jun-07, 19:48

Amazing pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

horseman

19-Jun-07, 23:03

And here is one that was taken from the ship in the storm

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Lolabelle_2007/SELKIRK_SETTLER_1.jpg

Best ever, you can only say 'dive dive';)

Lolabelle

20-Jun-07, 08:24

I agree with Tubthumper, and am curious to know if that's where you live too, Lolabelle. If so, would love to see more photos of the place! :)

Tubthumper & Sporran,
yeah I live about 45 min from there. We live in the Hunter Valley right in the middle of the vineyards. It is a really beautiful area, I will post some more photo's of the area in the Photography section in the next day or so.

I am glad you all liked the pics, the ship is only about a year old and is a coal frieghter. Fortunately it is not breaking up as it has 40,000 litres of diesel on board. The swell was about 18m in the storm that pushed her up onto the beach. They are not sure how the will salvage the ship as it is a flat bottomed ship and it is all firmly sucked into the sand apparently.

brew

20-Jun-07, 11:03

. They are not sure how the will salvage the ship as it is a flat bottomed ship and it is all firmly sucked into the sand apparently.

Can they not get in the RAF to air lift it like the Bull that was stuck in Argyll and Bute

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6765929.stm

Tubthumper

22-Jun-07, 00:22

Can they not get in the RAF to air lift it like the Bull that was stuck in Argyll and Bute

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6765929.stm
I think you'd need a pretty big helicopter to shift that boat. Bull indeed!;)

Tubthumper

22-Jun-07, 00:25

Tubthumper & Sporran,
yeah I live about 45 min from there. We live in the Hunter Valley right in the middle of the vineyards. It is a really beautiful area, I will post some more photo's of the area in the Photography section in the next day or so.

I am glad you all liked the pics, the ship is only about a year old and is a coal frieghter. Fortunately it is not breaking up as it has 40,000 litres of diesel on board. The swell was about 18m in the storm that pushed her up onto the beach. They are not sure how the will salvage the ship as it is a flat bottomed ship and it is all firmly sucked into the sand apparently.
It's really a gorgeous place , can I come & visit? I'm a flat-bottomed bloke.

brokencross

29-Jun-07, 07:33

For anyone interested in ships and especially the fate of this one they have set up a streaming webcam on Nobbys Beach (just love that name).
Remember the time difference or you just end up looking at a set of floodlights. At high tide you can see the ship move. This a.m. 29/6 it has its radar going????
The other day I saw the sunrise over there, quite a sight.

http://www.coastalwatch.com/camera/NobbysBeach.htm

brokencross

29-Jun-07, 07:42

Found another rather impressive photo of the ship while still afloat in the very heavy seas.
http://forum.caithness.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=931&stc=1&d=1183098547

Ricco

29-Jun-07, 20:12

Tubthumper & Sporran,
yeah I live about 45 min from there. We live in the Hunter Valley right in the middle of the vineyards. It is a really beautiful area, I will post some more photo's of the area in the Photography section in the next day or so.

I am glad you all liked the pics, the ship is only about a year old and is a coal frieghter. Fortunately it is not breaking up as it has 40,000 litres of diesel on board. The swell was about 18m in the storm that pushed her up onto the beach. They are not sure how the will salvage the ship as it is a flat bottomed ship and it is all firmly sucked into the sand apparently.

Easy... at high tide get a couple of tugs at the stern. Then, along the hull set in some of those vibrators that they use to settle concrete to loosen up the sand / water mix while the tugs pull like billy-o. Should slide off nice and sweet.

JAWS

29-Jun-07, 23:25

Sorry about the mess on your beach Lolabelle but I definitely told them not to turn left at Cape Town.

brokencross

03-Jul-07, 08:21

©Amethyst

03-Jul-07, 08:37

Lolabelle

03-Jul-07, 11:01

She is free and floating, three methods were considered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfHvLAv0x-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpKkmg7VVqo

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pasha-bulker-free-at-last/2007/07/02/1183228999518.html

Preferred the first two myself!

Aren't they clever, the first two that is.
But it's good that it has been gotten off the beach. Apparently they just waited until high tide and then gave it a tug with the tugs and there you go. Off she went.

changilass

03-Jul-07, 11:43

Would defiantely have gone with the first option :lol:

2nd was just silly and 3rd was boring but hey it worked.

Geo

03-Jul-07, 12:12

Brilliant! Liked the 2nd one best.

seren

03-Jul-07, 13:24

there was a constant threat of these coming ashore where we used to live until one night an oil tanker did just that and broke its back. the oil spill was devastating and took a good couple of years to clean up :(

amazing picture! that's gone into my album :D

Echidna

04-Jul-07, 06:01

Aren't they clever, the first two that is.
But it's good that it has been gotten off the beach. Apparently they just waited until high tide and then gave it a tug with the tugs and there you go. Off she went.

For those who have been following the thread on the vernacular idiom, 'why do we draw a bath', at least three meanings of 'draw' can be applied to this nautical event on the NSW coast; a nautical meaning for draw is "to require a specified depth of water to float", and 'draw' as a transitive verb "to drag or pull, to haul; to extract or remove by pulling" [The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary].

saxovtr

04-Jul-07, 08:45

excellent photos looks a nice place to be:D

stratman

04-Jul-07, 08:55

For those who have been following the thread on the vernacular idiom, 'why do we draw a bath', at least three meanings of 'draw' can be applied to this nautical event on the NSW coast; a nautical meaning for draw is "to require a specified depth of water to float", and 'draw' as a transitive verb "to drag or pull, to haul; to extract or remove by pulling" [The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary].

Keep them coming Echidna.

Great Photos, must have been awesome (in its true sense) in real life).