Engineering Secrets: How Do You Repair A 32,000 Ton Ferry? | Engineering Giants | Progress
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2023
- The North Sea ferry, "The Pride of Bruges," is a unique and incredible machine. This massive ship is being taken out of the water for the biggest overhaul of its life, giving us an amazing look into its engineering.
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I’ve used that ferry a few times taking my caravan to mainland Europe, driving down from Glasgow.
Much memory, faded over 8 decades, was brought back. I enjoyed the documentary and thank you for it. We forget so much when not 'on tap' every day, I am grateful, thank you
You never forget the first time you engage in the unnatural act of standing on the deck of a drydock looking UP at the hull of your ship. From then on, everything about the vessel is viewed with a slightly different perspective.
For me it was 1988, at the beginning of a 6 month maintenance/upgrade/refit drydock availability of the USS Kansas City (AOR-3). I called her "Home" for 2 1/2 years. Ship's schedule and my service dates didn't line up for me to have visited, but she was no stranger to Aussie ports.
47:27 Sadly the bean counters and owners of P&O failed to recognise the value of their crews last Christmas when many were replaced.
I, like many other cross channel passengers, have chosen to boycott P&O and now book with other companies even when it is less convenient or I have to change my travel arrangements.
You're a liar deep-throat. You don't care about them, you just want to feel important.
You did one heckuva job. It seems it would be stressful trying to do a selfie stick video with strangers looking at you.
You end up being the entertainment. I can’t speak for everyone, but I will say that I was entertained.
I was dragged to Rotterdam as a child, I remember getting back to the ferry with what I had bought and realized I needed batteries but the cover needed a screw driver....I saw a maintenance guy who was locking a door and he let me in to a service door while he sorted it for me and it ABSOLUTELY BLEW ME AWAY just the sheer amount of steel that was there was insane to see for my tiny eyes and the size of a wrench near by that was tucked into something was massive! He was smiling when I went to grab it off him I was gob smacked it looked insane. I sometimes think back and wish there was some sort of tour these sorts of boats are amazing.
I’ve used that ferry a few times taking my caravan to mainland Europe, driving down from Glasgow. The sailing times suited us perfectly.
We used to have a ferry going between only Bergen, Norway and Newcastle I believe. Hope it’s coming back
Amazing. Thanks for capturing this. :)
So well presented, clear explanations, having been on ferries some of it's technology I only now understand, great! What a relief from all those so called documentaries where half is about: o dear, what if this goes wrong and you learn virtually nothing. This is so informative. Well done and thank you for that!
Muy bonito y educativo su comentario sobre este video !.
Gracias.
Loved it well done guys cheers
Sked- u- al. Not…
Shed- u- al Dude!
Lol must be Aye eye 😂
beautifully restored
I was on one of the last journeys from Hull to Zeebrugge and I am so glad that I did. Miss Bruges and York so much. P&O Ferries are not the same nowadays....
Nais!.
good video .
Thank you.
nice
I remember very well when the Pride of Bruges and her sister ship came into service - they looked enormous in the dock and it was quite amazing how they'd squeeze through the lock at Hull. Enjoyed many mini-cruises on them....the greatest bargain in travel! Not so sure about P&O nowadays after their disgraceful behaviour sacking crews.
Excellent documentary. Even if I did understand most of what you showed it is still a overwhelming thought to manage such a huge and complex machine in day to day use let alone with the maintenance and what not required for the life of a vessel of that magnitude. My hat is of to both technicians and crew, impressive work indeed.
No, not excellent. The presenter is a budget Richard Hammond wannabe, and his friend is a refugee from a cheap 1970s porn film.
Had a summerjob at the P&O Ferries terminal (North Sea Ferries back then) in Rotterdam. Was doing lashings and work as much as possible (6 and a half day) Never got paid more I think. We too wondered a lot how amazing it actually is when you go look at every single wire, bolt or light, etc. All got functions but then also the ~5 decks on top with restaurants etc. and it floats ;) *The Pride of Rotterdam/ -Hull
Brilliant Documentary. That ferry is Massive 😅😅
I remember snuff videos
The Dover UK-based P&O Ferries sold the ships Pride of Bruges and Pride of York.
Pride of York was handed over to her new owner and operator GNV-Grandi Navi Veloci on April 15. The sistership Pride of Bruges will be transferred within days and renamed "GNV Antares".
its as new, nice job
Very interesting and well exsplaned to many people that dont realise what goes on of a ships refit in dry dock
'exsplaned'???? WTF - too bad you didn't stay at school long enough to learn about spelling.
Loved the documentary. Got a question though about the anti-fouling paint. What is done about the strip along the bottom of the hull, the keel, where it was sitting on the blocks? It obviously can't be painted while the ship is sitting on them.
40:55 I took passage on a small freighter from Rotterdam to Hull and back. Once we were in open sea, the Captain (awesome guy, BTW) let me drive it for a while. The "wheel" was even more modest on that vessel - just a large-ish rotary knob.
Laying out a new metal deck, upon the old, would mean a lot more weight to ferry, meaning more fuel to burn 😮
They tell you that they are replacing what has worn off over the working life of the vessel, so although they are adding weight in theory they are returning her to her original weight.
God I love engineering it’s so magical and full of different and interesting things ❤❤
The Captain could assign you to the rust team and give you a battery powered Dremel tool to remove the rust.
@@kennethcapron1294 yep if I pissed him off 😜
Honestly, $50k sounds extremely reasonable for a huge engine.
Greetings to Captain McFadyan, remember you fondly from the Pride of Bilbao Jasper Gilder - Drive Espana
I believe de-welding ships aka dismantling ships is one of the most dangerous jobs
easy just cut them up
@@ruscador1 haha you’re joking I hope
Yes. Typically why the worst ones are done in poor countries with no labour protections
it's really sad that paper charts will soon disappear it's been something for centuries now will start going away
good
They keep referring to the dock as being in Newcastle, the dock is in Hebburn on south tyneside.
I was 4th Engineer on the old Pride of Bruges..
And have been 3rd Engineer on most of the current ones out of Dover..
Bruges was a brilliant vessel. I'm a lorry driver and was on it most weeks and wat amazed me was size of her for its age. Had bets with drivers how many time boat hit the lock wall whilst sat in red deck bar. Sad it now gone
Those Captains are superb at manoeuvring those ships and in all kinds of weathers.. I have spent a lifetime on them on and off and I can't ever remember one being bumped!..
Wow one paint job, some underwater, to last ten years thats impressive
WOW
Fixated, what an amazing job by the team of workers and engineers at Newcastle. 👏
great guidance i work in ship repair too , these hull ferries are sold to italian hands now and won't last many more years
Fascinating! Thanks for making this :-)
Hi, I have enjoyed the channel for a long time, and note with interest your article on Orcas being shot at in the Gib straights.
Clearly these actions should never be encouraged, but as you rightly point out there is much room for misinterpretation.
Many years ago I sailed these waters and crossed the Atlantic on SY Shenandoah, this you may be aware is a steel hulled 140+ foot 3 mast schooner. We encountered Orcas on several occasions an they can be quite boisterous and occasionally intimidating.
On smaller vessels, they are often frightening, it may seem like they are inquisitive or playing but the stakes are very high.
I recently listened to a podcast on Ladbible about a true story of an English family consisting 2 parents and 4 children who sold up about 30 years ago, brought a 40+ foot sailing boat, then leaving Blighty for the adventure of a lifetime.
They crossed the Atlantic, spent some months in the Bahamas, passed through the Panama Canal into the Pacific and their boat was 'attacked' by Orcas and ultimately sunk.
They went on to endure 4-5 weeks adrift in a life raft surviving on turtles blood etc before eventually being picked up by a Japanese (I think) freighter.
So, although I don't condone the shooting action, as you suggested, they may have had mitigating circumstances and a tragedy averted.
It's always easy to make quick judgement!
Thanks for all your hard work, research and entertainment.
Keep up the good work.
Stupod
You made that zinc look so light
Excuse me, excuse me, I think you wore your little sisters coat. 😅😂
Tom Wrigglesworth' is also a great radio comedian: Look up, Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
I noted that the Dutch ship is Registered in Rotterdam but the British one in Nassau. P&O at its best.
all owned by dubai ports not english or dutch
DP World sacked all the British workers to pay more dividends to Dubai
Don’t blame P&O blame Britain, registering a ship in London opens you up to millions of extra tax each year not paid in countries like the Netherlands or Nassau.
@@fluggaenkoecchicebolsen Don't forget Liberia, the country where many ships are registered but have never seen a Liberian port.
Few ships are registered under the US flag for the same tax reasons. US law states that any ship carrying cargo between two US ports must be registered in the US. This pretty much limits the US-registered ships to coastal freighters and tankers, plus the relatively few ships which service Alaska and Hawaii.
How do they paint where it’s sitting on the blocks?
they dont, they will have the blocks slightly different the next time its docked to get them
Been on it many times.
I actually sailed on this ferry a long time ago.
No one cares.
bring back felixstowe to zeebrugge ferry that was an awesome route rather than dover...start the campaign to bring that ferry route back
They never really go into enough detail for me. I want to know more about the pitch control vs propeller speed.
Easy, the more pitch, the slower the prop has to turn for a given speed.
On SS Nevasa the stbd stabiliser could not be used, because of a cracked weld, so we could only use the port flipper!
Is t this the P&O owned by DP World out of Dubai that sacked all its British workers while it still paid record dividends out of Britain to Dubai?
Yes
How do I repair 32,000 ton ferrys? Bit of duct tape, superglue and a handful of cable ties.
And to think every employee we see lost their jobs to be replaced by cheap labour on minimum wage or just above!?
I'll never travel by P&O ferries ever again!
Don’t go to Dubai
I like how they pick the ship breaking years in Belgium to show…….show India or sub Africa
32,000 gross tons is a measure of ships internal volume, not its weight.
Sailed on this ship several times when she was originally known as Norsun, operated by North Sea Ferries. Always a good crossing. Service however tanked when P&O took over. Everything got more expensive and you got less for the money at the same time. Then they renamed her to "The Pride of Bruges".
Did anyone realize this is the first time they saw Inspector Gadget in real life?😂😂😂
WTF, where is the PPE of the painting crew??? Anti-fouling without PPE?!!!!
I have had some great nights out on this boat
loe this
Can you explain the zinc vs steel thing please. How can corrosion choose a surface over another?
Well the show is finished now. Where do you think the answer will come from? BrokenDummy.
@@Jenalgo helpful. I was hoping someone with experience would know better and give a better answer then google. Call me a dummy all you want but I would not seek medical advice on google.
When two dissimilar metals are immersed in water it in effect creates a battery and a minute electrical current flow. This is known as Galvanic Corrosion. As this occurs, atoms of the metals will migrate into the water. The salt in seawater greatly accelerates this process. When the two different metals are something like the steel prop shaft and the bronze prop, this can be a problem.
Some metals are more active than others, and will more easily release their atoms to the water. In this environment Zinc is very active, and will release its atoms much more readily than steel or most other metals. Thus, the Zinc acts a Sacrificial Anode and is corroded away in the place of the Steel or Bronze it is mechanically (and electrically) attached to. Even in a little pleasure boat with a dinky outboard motor, there will be a small Zinc bar or two bolted to the motor lower housing.
As we are talking an electro-chemical process, corrosion can also be somewhat prevented by use of sensors which can detect and measure this galvanic current coupled with equipment which can induce an exactly opposite current flow, cancelling out the undesirable current flow. This is known as Impressed Current Cathodic Protection, and is also used for buried pipelines.
If you take two pieces of metal, submerge them in an electrolyte, and hook up a Direct Current source (like a battery) to them with the proper polarity you can deliberately cause the metal atoms to migrate from one piece of metal to the other. This is known as Electro-Plating, and is how you get chromed steel car parts and cheap gold-plated jewelry.
The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. Knowledge is gained by the transfer of information. Assholes are outed by their sarcastic replies to a genuine request for information.
Extensive and in-depth training, experience, and OJT in all things Nautical can be arranged at your local US Navy Recruiting Office. :)
impressive condition after 25 years what is expected life span?
Watch it to the end and they tell you, another ten years! 🙄
😳 54:28 ...WOW! that's what we can call pollution !!!
I wonder what that paints consists of and how environmentally unfriendly it is. Am I eating this as I eat fish? Ouch...
A bit of a miscalculation.
When you put in 133 mil liter of water in a dok. Then a ship of 32,000 ton.... when you drain the dok there is not 133 mil liter of water to drain.
Archimedes principle ❤
So wait 4 lifeboats carrying up to 150 people each that only means 600 isnt this ship capable if carrying more passengers than that??
Don’t ask. 😂
For passenger ferries at certain routes/trading area’s it can be possible to sail with a smaller capacity in the lifeboats. The remaining capacity is covered by a system of liferafts.
@@bas6983 tbf on a ferry of RORO design the chances of filling/deploying the lifeboats successfully intime before the vessel turns turtle is quite slim makes sense to have the liferafts mop up any survivors but they only deploy once they are submerged and thats assuming you arent trapped within the ship (upside down stairs are no fun) if your lucky and can swim to one of these rafts and get into it, dying of hypothermia is now your biggest challenge to defeat *edit where are the lifejackets getting to said rafts requires you dont drown before doing so, where are they and how many are there?
@@urbansnipe not sure about your prognoses. Present ferries have down flood gates to keep the vessel upright during flooding and rafts and MERS are designed to be deployed/launched when the ship is afloat. Thats the reason of the shutes. Normal vessels have disembarkation ladders to go down het hull in case of abandoning ship by means of the rafts.
Commercial vessels of a certain size will not capsize that easy. Yes keeping a bow door open and flooding the complete car deck is not ideal (herald of free enterprise and the Estonia)
I’m more triggered by the idea of evacuating upto 6000 people in 90minn at the biggest cruise liners.
@@bas6983 yeah cruise liners are a disaster waiting to happen alot of elderly and elevators dont work when a ship is listing also imagine the looting instead of muster stations and life jackets they literally fill their pockets with duty free perfume 😂
4 lifeboats that can carry 150 people each? That's not enough for everyone surely? 0_0
max capacity for this ship 1250 pax, looks like not
Auto deployed inflatable rafts, those white cylinders that are often seen on ferries and other ships, make up the rest of the requirement.
@@grahamstretch6863 to expand upon your reply a bit...
I'm assuming that the US Navy and civilian versions are similar. The raft canisters can be manually released or the canister restraint system will auto-release when submerged to a certain depth. When the canisters sink to a certain depth the canisters will open and deploy the life raft, which then rapidly heads for the surface.
This is actually a very rapid process, but it is my understanding that it seems like it takes months if you are treading water waiting for the raft to appear.
Speaking to grim reality, the ship that I was stationed on was a Replenishment Ship which carried about 7.5 million gallons of Marine Diesel and Turbine (jet) fuel, plus 600 tons of munitions. We always just assumed that if we were hit by a missile or torpedo the ship, crew, and life rafts would be raining down upon several square miles of ocean, and the whole life raft question would be academic at best. The running joke was "the first USN ship to achieve Low Earth Orbit".
We just hoped that the 8 Sea Sparrow missiles and the 2 CIWS mounts would delay the inevitable long enough to allow for Final Prayers. Such was life living on a sea-going warehouse/grocery store/fuel depot/munitions dump.
@@grahamstretch6863 ahhhh. Nice thanks :D
So the paint constantly releases microscopic particles into the sea 🤦♂️
Strum boxes, not Sea boxes. wayaye man!
Sea Chests and Sea Cocks. Unfortunately, one of these terms doesn't do well with American English slang. We are discussing where outside water enters the ship and the valve used to control this water, NOT sailors on liberty who have been known to evaluate the former in order to hopefully employ the latter.
I will strenuously deny any personal experience of dumb sh*t behavior or morally deficient activities by drunken Navy sailors on liberty. Besides, THEY started the fight, the bar didn't press charges, and we DID pay for the furniture...
The noise humans introduce into the oceans. I wonder how it affects sea life.
13:46 wow, an engineer that doesn't know about density of fluids and gases being temperature dependent? 4°C brother, above or below, water will increase its volume/decrease density.
Why can't they fill it up by dropping or lowering the gate? Seems like it would be much easier and quicker.
I think its a combination of the amount of force that would be required (pushing possibly 1000's on tonnes of water) and they need a level a control to stop the blocks they have set from being washed away.
@@garethoneill5666 yeah probably way better control when there is ships inside
Canberra, flat out would burn 500 tons of fuel oil a day.
Oh, but arent you just too excited . . in my opinion Y E S . . its too much , , be fair
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Haircut time, really
Please stop using Double Decker Buses and Olympic Size swimming pools as Engineering Units.
What was the power of the engines??? Try MW or KWs, not how many family cars
That always irritates me too.
cold water is more buoyant than warm water (for the ship). Warm water is more buoyant than cold water - that's why heat rises. Confusing explanation.
It's a shame p&o sold it off and not in hull anymore
I know. Was on it 3 times a week and got say it was a awsome vessel. And staff on there were brilliant too
Sailed aboard her many times. Fabulous vessel. Very very sad when p & o sold her off also remembering her sister pride of york❤
@@tipperscum You can still sail on her. Fly to Palermo in Sicily on a cheap Ryanair flight. Then you can sail overnight on the Bruges from Palermo to Naples. Then a cheap Ryanair flight back to the UK.
@@christopdeck3457 wow. Didn't know she was still sailing. I was led to believe she went for scrap. Thanks for the reply.
@@tipperscum The Pride of Bruges and the Pride of York were both sold to the Italian shipping line GNV Grandi Navi Veloce.
The Bruges was renamed GNV Antares and the York was renamed GNV Aries. Both ships now ply the Naples Palermo route which is about eight hours long I believe, so you can still sail aboard both ships for old times sake.
This was absolutely amazing. What's even more amazing is how blind people are to think that all this can be done with wind and solar power. That will never happen in a thousand years.
6:11 I wouldn't sail on such a fragile vessel! A real snowflake or a Ford Pinto!
The man misspoke. Cold water is NOT more buoyant than warm water. Cold water is denser and therefore "less buoyant"... And the statement that saltwater is more buoyant AND denser than freshwater is also incorrect. "denser and more Buoyant" are mutually exclusive. That is a liquid can not be denser and more buoyant at the same time. He should have said that salt water is denser and therefore "less buoyant" than fresh water.
I did a drydock on SS Canberra in 1976, not much fun, a busy time for us engineers. No more smoked salmon only KFC! hahahaha
was engineer on Canberra 1970/ 71 and have worked in most dry docks on the Tyne. She was a good running ship. Did dry dock in Southampton on Canberra too
Too much TV.
Made in Japan......$ay no more , we'll take 3.
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With a 32,000 ton jack!! Duh!🤪
I'm Wei Jing Burr, I'm a trained commercial janitor, and I still don't believe either of you are anything but actors, paid, Actors.
What an absolute pee take😩 it’s sad that people watching these videos don’t actually understand what is going on 😩
The overly dramatic narration gets old after a while. A very short while.
why all those drama queen statements? you're as bad as the bloody yanks, mate!
That ship is unsafe, RoRo ferries have no watertight doors so even a puddle causes them to capsize. That whole design needs banning.
Loads of incorrrect narration.
Bet that ship turned the owners a pretty profit. When you got a big ship you make big money. Hundreds of millions some times. The advrage Joe will never own a ship , it is a members only club.
And a big ship costs millions in maintenance, crew, fuel, insurances etc per year. 30,000us$\£ per day in fuel costs at least.
13:22 What ridiculous coat and hair
Presentation lacks sincerity and integrity.. maybe a bit ... Oooh just "turning japanese" as the song goes.
It's a bit of a dumb question. Is that the goal, then, to preferentially attract dumb viewers?
Horrible horrible over loud music noises its like a bad musical is the content so lacking ??
Repair what? 😊