Posted on 05/23/2025 11:32:00 PM PDT by Morgana
A 440-foot-long cargo ship apparently failed to make its turn after entering Trondheim fjord, ending up in the garden of a water-front resident, but incredibly beached without waking the sleeping householder.
The NCL Salten, a Norwegian-operated container ship capable of carrying 886 twenty foot containers (or the equivalent thereof) ran aground in the early hours of Thursday morning after it had entered the Trondheim fjord. The ship had sailed from Averøy on Bremsnesfjorden on Norway’s Atlantic coast the previous day on coastal trade.
The Salten may be relatively small by container ship standards — the largest carry the equivalent of over 24,000 twenty foot containers — but it dwarfed its new neighbour after coming to rest on the shore. After failing to make its turn, and Norwegian police say they are investigating whether this was technical malfunction or human error, the ship ended up directly alongside a small water-front home.
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Damn things, I’ve tried everything I can to keep them out. The lighthouse didn’t work worth crap.
> A 440-foot-long cargo ship apparently failed to make its turn after entering Trondheim fjord
Is that the Norwegian Albuquerque?
I’m also a very sound sleeper, so I understand
Was it a UPS or FEDEX delivery? I used to live on a narrow street and nobody could pass until they finished making their deliveries. The first thing that came to mind was thinking how irritating it would be to have something that size parked outside my house and not being able to get out.
Are we stopping soon, I have to pee?!. She said. Again.
I ordered Chinese food for the family and the containers were bigger than the last time.
At least it wasn’t the Tirpitz.
OOppps...
Cut off the Aquavit.....
““It is understood the same vessel has run aground three times previously within the last three years.””
Norway has DEI?
Looks like thy dropped anchor and forgot a clevis.
I get Japanese beetles, but this sounds worse.
Will Round Up get rid of it?
I think the last sentence was kind of important. “The ship has run aground three times in the past three years.” Good to leave that til last. It may be kind of embarrassing.
He needs a bigger “oogah” horn
Uff Da!
That’s gonna be a b**ch to turn unto a planter.
Ship-to-Shore
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