Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours? - Gordon Lightfoot
That’s a big ass ship
Prolly 30-50,000 dwt?
They do sink
Prayers for their safety.
And U.S. flagged
Do posters realize how rare that is these days
Had to have US or BritLloyds or Norske Veritas or German Lloyds classification too
You can’t run banana classification with US flag except under wartime waiver
A well managed and kept motor vessel
Amazing lost at sea from a storm without a collision or running aground
It’s very rare
No propulsion and a 15 degree list?
From my hobby of following great lakes freighters I know that is really bad. No propulsion likely means no generators ergo, no pumps.
CC
U cannot do commerce between US ports without US flag baring expediency waiver
Which explains this vessel trading Jax to San Juan
Gales of November came early.
Geez, I hope those folks are OK.
Yes...from The Edmund Fitzgerald awesome and classic song
Gordon Light may be a liberal but no one can deny he is a hell of a songwriter. I love all of his songs, no one song I can say they are bad.
Hurricane Joaquin was a Cat 4 lately. That means winds of 130+ and gusting to godknowswhat. Don’t know what the swell was, but the seas on top of that would have been, well... Mind bending. 30 feet at least. Likely a lot more. Even a few waves of 40, 50, 60+ would ruin your whole day. An afternoon of that would be catastrophic. For any ship.
Prayers up for these sailors.
“the storm passed safely out to sea”.
Search has been suspended till first light Saturday morning.
27 US citizens and 5 Polish.
If the Captain was Polish that would explain a lot.