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This edition of the Ships and Oil Newsletter contains a narrative about the new Bitish aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, a further appeal for my “We Were Seafarerts” project, some words about Brent Delta, now at Able UK, memories of the Oriana and the Kearsarge accident prompted by the USS Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal event and more knock down ships on the Yangtze.
This is the Thistle Platform about 35 years ago. The little ship alongside is one of the Stirling Shipping platform ships. They really looked as if they should not have been allowed to go that far north, but despite the fact that they were mostly under water some people preferred them because they were easier to manoeuvre due to the reduced windage. The Thistle Platform was one of the many developed in the North Sea in the 1970s. It was photographed through the smoked glass shades on the bridge of the Star Capella.
Looking back through the Picture of the Day for 2016 I found it just a bit awkward to look at more than one picture, and if I wanted to look at several it required quite a bit of work to move from one place to another, and so I am combining all the 2016 photos in one file. This is not the easiest thing in the world to do, since Joomla has quite a few rules, particularly to avoid duplication. I have also found that there are limitations to the number of photographs which can be held on file on the site. This may be because of the maximum size of the site, and we certainly have begun to collect a few photographs. In essence I am just writing these words in order to get a start, so it may all change later.