mvThamesborg
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Bookworm
Re: mvThamesborg
Thoughtful comment. Too often we focus only on the ships that visit the Great Lakes, but mariners anywhere in the world work in demanding and often dangerous conditions.
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Steamboater 66
mvThamesborg
About a week ago today you put up a story that I thought was good of you to cover. That was a story about the trouble the Wagenborg vessel, Thamesborg was having on her passage through the Northwest Passage enroute with cargo from China to Baie Comeau Quebec.
It was good of you to expand coverage beyond the Great Lakes. Just liked the lakers, Thamesborg has hard working mariners aboard.
She shoaled September 6. The hull was damaged. She did not take on water; nor did she release any environmentally hazardous material. She was just stuck on a shoal.
Eventually all the right red tape was negotiated, Canadian Coast Guard, Wagenborg, and I’m sure others organized a lightening operation.Last Thursday she was floated free.
This morning, October 16 she is steaming south on her own power, unassisted through Davis Strait toward the Labrador Sea and her destination.
Somewhere she will need drydocking and repairs. That will all be organized and done.
My point is that it was good to have the story on Boatnerd. Mainly in my view because mariners were on her in a very threatening situation and environment for a month with Arctic winter not far away. Good of Boatnerd to cover their story. When things don’t go well out there and the men and women on ships are in a tough situation, it’s a reminder that merchant mariners are important. It’s they and the ships they are on that keep the economy going...even beyond the Great Lakes.
Good luck to MV Thamesborg and her crew.
It was good of you to expand coverage beyond the Great Lakes. Just liked the lakers, Thamesborg has hard working mariners aboard.
She shoaled September 6. The hull was damaged. She did not take on water; nor did she release any environmentally hazardous material. She was just stuck on a shoal.
Eventually all the right red tape was negotiated, Canadian Coast Guard, Wagenborg, and I’m sure others organized a lightening operation.Last Thursday she was floated free.
This morning, October 16 she is steaming south on her own power, unassisted through Davis Strait toward the Labrador Sea and her destination.
Somewhere she will need drydocking and repairs. That will all be organized and done.
My point is that it was good to have the story on Boatnerd. Mainly in my view because mariners were on her in a very threatening situation and environment for a month with Arctic winter not far away. Good of Boatnerd to cover their story. When things don’t go well out there and the men and women on ships are in a tough situation, it’s a reminder that merchant mariners are important. It’s they and the ships they are on that keep the economy going...even beyond the Great Lakes.
Good luck to MV Thamesborg and her crew.