Pash Bulker

[charleville]

I cannot vouch for the authenticity of these pictures but they have been forwarded to me with the description that they are from the Pash Bulker before she ran aground in Newcastle. I reiterate that I cannot vouch for their authenticity although the ship is the same colour....

http://myskitch.com/charleville/pasha1-20070625-155052.jpg

http://myskitch.com/charleville/pasha2-20070625-155149.jpg

http://myskitch.com/charleville/pasha3-20070625-155301.jpg



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[trueblue]

Nope, not Pasha Bulker. An old set of photos that have circulated many times before.

This ship in the photos is in a deep ocean storm, and is fully laden.

The Pasha bulker was lightship (Unloaded and mostly out of the water) and in such seas as shown in the photo an unladen and unballasted vessel would have rolled and sunk.

Cheers

Mick

[DR]

if it was the Pasha Bulker, & you were crew.. you would have been pretty happy when it did run aground :)

[FNQCairns]

Possibly too much balast to be that stricken ship in the Newcastle storm but great pics! no place to be for a human!

cheers fnq

[Smithy]

I thought those pics, which have done the rounds a million times allready, were of the Selkirk Settler. If I remember the story right it was actually a vessel plying the waterways of the great lakes of the US. Those pics are actually on a lake not the open ocean if that is the case.

[Chris Ryan]

Holy Crap - a lake like that! Geez give me the Bay and a 30kt any day over that!

[charleville]

Thanks guys. I was also a bit sceptical because the ship seemed to be sitting too low in the water for an empty ship to me also - hence my cautious reservations about their authenticity. :-/

Anyway, that third picture makes the posting worthwhile anyway, I reckon. :)

[ffejsmada]

Yeah it is the Selkirk Settler, not on the Great Lakes of the U.S, but in the middle of an Atlantic crossing.
Google Selkirk Settler, there's some great oceanographic pics there.

These pics also did the rounds when the last big cyclone hit the WA coast as well!!

Cheers

[dnej]

The storm pictures below were taken during a North Atlantic storm February, 13, 1987 on an eastbound passage from Tampa, Florida to Ghent, Belgium with a load of phosphates. The pictures were taken by Capt. George Ianiev, who was the ship's Second Mate at the time. The big blue wave was the largest wave the ship encountered during the storm; seeing it hit the ship made the vessel's master question whether they would survive the storm.

The above notation was shown on a website,with the exact same pics.It is indeed the settler,as mentioned.
David

[dnej]

http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/spruceglen.htm
The web site to look at the pics.
David

[Smithy]

Yep sorry bout that but I knew it had a connection with the Geat Lakes which you can read all about on that Boatnerd site.

On the Great Lakes they did claim that 222m long Edmund Fitzgerald which is in that famous song by Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[1975fflh]

I recieved them as the ship Antrewp and it stated it was in the North Sea. (wont be fishing there)

[fish-freak]

Great pics!!

[Reef_fisher]

Hope the crew had brown undies on. Wonder how the phosphate was at the end.