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To: Jonty30
Read a report yesterday that the pilot tried to reverse engines. Ship travelling at 9 miles per hour at time of collision. Even at that low speed not enough time to stop.

The Queen Mary cut her engines 30 miles from destination port.

4 posted on 03/27/2024 3:45:13 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

If there was no power, how could he have reversed?

BTW

I was told that he couldn’t drop the anchor because that function requires power, also.


60 posted on 03/27/2024 5:51:30 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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