SteveP LFC
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SteveP LFC
@Steveplfc
Well travelled. Occasionally well oiled. Sage but also Onion. #Maritime #liverpool #lfc #History #WW2 @festivalgardns plus all the usual pleasures
Liverpool, England Katılım Eylül 2015
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Rush hour, The Strand, Liverpool.
I took this in 2006 and I can still smell that walkway across the road😃
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Do you ever buy books you plan to read… while still having a whole pile you haven’t touched yet?
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MOVIES I’VE NEVER SEEN
#14 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie
Some call it a wild, dark comedy about greed, others say it was already dated when it appeared (or is that the point?)
Should I watch?
Convince me: YES or NO—and why.
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A Chinese bulker briefly disrupted traffic for the southbound convoy of the Suez Canal on April 2 after the vessel experienced a reported “technical failure.” maritime-executive.com/article/chines…
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@campbellclaret @MarinaPurkiss USA has completely lost the plot. Half the country thinks he’s the GOAT. It will surely get worse.
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Deranged. We should have as little to do with this guy in this mode as is humanly and strategically possible.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL@campbellclaret
This says to me the Iranians have got him where they want him … Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@Antunes1 Shock horror. omg. Again and again. Ad infinitum. And they carry on. Not even laughing at us. Oblivious to us.
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When was the last time you bought a half pint?
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@BartGonnissen @JJanegle A lot of perishable cargo was lost of course. Perishable foodstuffs were also pilfered by locals or 'liberated' by crews and shared amongst the vessels.
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@BartGonnissen My company were one of those tasked with salvaging cargoes once the vessels were released. Some pages from archives..
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@BartGonnissen Not my expertise but Is the LNG still supercooled? If so how?
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The final docking of Royal Iris of The Mersey at Liverpool Landing Stage.
Farewell, lass. After 67 years, you definitely deserve a rest.
The Royal Iris of the Mersey actually started life in 1959 as the MV Mountwood, spending decades as a proper Birkenhead commuter workhorse. It wasn't until a massive £2 million makeover at Cammell Laird in 2001 that she was renamed to keep the "Royal" title alive on the river-a rare honor granted to the ferry fleet for bravery during the 1918 Zeebrugge Raid.
If you watch the 1965 film Ferry Cross the Mersey or the opening of The Liver Birds, you are seeing this boat in her original form. Her biggest modern claim to fame was carrying the Olympic Torch in 2012. As of today, March 29, 2026
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@SimonMcCoyTV It is adaptive cruise and intelligent speed limiters reading signs on side roads or even trucks/vans.
There’s a 30 sign on the side road to Channel tunnel along the M20 near J12 that my speed limiter always reads, same as a 20 at the port of Dover bridge yet the bride is 30.
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Have noticed a lot more random braking on motorways lately. It’s dangerous and causes others to brake. Is it because drivers of electric vehicles using regenerative braking don’t realise their brakes lights come on when they take their foot off the accelerator? Just a thought….
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@ATRightMovies “ I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then”
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@BartGonnissen The scale of operations at Antwerp and Rotterdam is just stunning.
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3/x The ECA project includes a 2nd tidal dock next to the current Deurganckdok. 3,130m of quayside will be added for seagoing vessels, while for inland shipping, it concerns 750 meters. In total, this will create 81 hectares of additional container handling capacity.
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1/x The @PortofAntBruges has just announced that the complete capacity that will be provided by the 2nd tidal dock in the ECA project (Extra Container capacity Antwerp) will be assigned to MPET (MSC PSA European Terminal).
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@BartGonnissen Yes. Too often problem vessels are just moved on somewhere else. No port authority wants an abandoned hulk on their berth. But it’s obvious this vessel is unseaworthy and shouldn’t sail anywhere. When the owner stops providing money conditions on board are grim for the crew.
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21/x What will happen to the crew? What will happen to the vessel? CEYO is not a lone case. There are hundreds of CEYOs sailing around. We wave with PSC authority, but in the end, it's about getting this vessel out of our own waters and making it someone else's problem.
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1/x So what is the story of the MV CEYO? It's not an exceptional one, but it serves as an example of how shipping sometimes works and how seafarers can be the victims of greed... a small 🧵
Bart 🌊⚓️@BartGonnissen
MV Ceyo is now moored in Gibraltar. When she entered the Med, she had technical problems and water ingress in the holds. Her fresh water and food situation was dire, the bilge pump gave out, and the captain transmitted a Mayday against the will of the ship owner (who threatened the crew). They are now in port and are receiving food from other ships. A Dutch journalist has been following them and will publish an article soon with the full story. The dark side of shipping, if you didn't know this already. Chances are, they will slap some patches on her and send her out to sea again
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@BartGonnissen I was on board as her ships agent ( and STS Kruzenshtern) when the Tall Ships visited Liverpool in 1984.
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