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    hmmm who rembers the govt purchase of a new ship for the navy some years ago lots of hoopla as it was named in honour of one of our heroes Capt Charles Hazlett Upham VC and bar .

    Unlike charlie upham this thing turned out to be bloody hopeless and IIRC was last being used as an orange crop carrier in the mediterrainian.

    whilst i try to consider both points of view ithink this new govt was right the NZ Rail board may be suffering from a variation of delusions of granduer ,or as arfur daley would say"tryin it on."
    seems Nicola willis has her fist firmly on the purse strings! and itll take a sound case to loosen her grip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    hmmm who rembers the govt purchase of a new ship for the navy some years ago lots of hoopla as it was named in honour of one of our heroes Capt Charles Hazlett Upham VC and bar .

    Unlike charlie upham this thing turned out to be bloody hopeless and IIRC was last being used as an orange crop carrier in the mediterrainian.

    whilst i try to consider both points of view ithink this new govt was right the NZ Rail board may be suffering from a variation of delusions of granduer ,or as arfur daley would say"tryin it on."
    seems Nicola willis has her fist firmly on the purse strings! and itll take a sound case to loosen her grip.
    The nearest that pile of rubbish should have ever got to the military was where it ended up - full of naval oranges.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    hmmm who rembers the govt purchase of a new ship for the navy some years ago lots of hoopla as it was named in honour of one of our heroes Capt Charles Hazlett Upham VC and bar .

    Unlike charlie upham this thing turned out to be bloody hopeless and IIRC was last being used as an orange crop carrier in the mediterrainian.

    whilst i try to consider both points of view ithink this new govt was right the NZ Rail board may be suffering from a variation of delusions of granduer ,or as arfur daley would say"tryin it on."
    seems Nicola willis has her fist firmly on the purse strings! and itll take a sound case to loosen her grip.
    Different design requirement unfortunately, military cargo is bulky but not dense (kind of like the grunts) but that boat was designed for high density commercial cargos. What happened was the roll center or righting moment was too much and they couldn't ballast the thing enough to get it down to where it should be. The ship would roll over slowly then flick back upright - quite nasty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No.3 View Post
    Different design requirement unfortunately, military cargo is bulky but not dense (kind of like the grunts) but that boat was designed for high density commercial cargos. What happened was the roll center or righting moment was too much and they couldn't ballast the thing enough to get it down to where it should be. The ship would roll over slowly then flick back upright - quite nasty.
    as an ex grunt i could take umbrage ,but reading between the lines an ex blanket folder or corp of trucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    as an ex grunt i could take umbrage ,but reading between the lines an ex blanket folder or corp of trucks.
    Cough cough excuse you?????

 

 

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