my uncle rob was the engineer on australia largest ship, the iron pacific during the 80s
they nicknamed it the iron pathetic. it had some new autonavigation software that apparently worked well at sea but in port caused them to hit the quay several times and a lot of close shaves. Interesting bloke. When he died (at sea) we discovered he had a whole other family in korea that his australian wife never knew about
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 29 Sep 2020, 23:46,
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I'm a fan of john clarke too, but I think most things came off second best when this ship hit them, it was fucking massive
just looked at up. At the time of launch it was the worlds biggest bulk cargo ship, not just australias. had a crew of eight. It was so big uncle rob would ride his bike each morning from the stern to bow
collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/16334
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Oct 2020, 2:53,
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Sorry to hear about your uncle
but as an aside BHP also had a ship called Iron Knob
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