Daily Echo reporter takes control of virtual vehicle carrier to find out the challenges pilots face
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Daily Echo reporter takes control of virtual vehicle carrier to find out the challenges pilots face
A PILOT'S LIFE for Rory: lecturer Steve Window coaches Echo reporter Rory McKoewn in the art of piloting a vehicle carrier.
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WITH minimal sailing experience under my belt, the prospect of piloting a cargo ship was a daunting one.
I had grappled the Dongfeng ocean racing vessel on the Solent during Cowes Week, which was an exhilarating moment.
Thankfully my opportunity at guiding a 200-metre vehicle carrier – similar to that of the Hoegh Osaka – was on dry land and in the safety of a hi-tech simulator at SouthamptonSolent
Roamer: Pilot-ship memories make history come alive
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Belfast Pilot moored off Carrickfergus between 1943 and 1959
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Amongst the many reminiscences and accounts shared here every week, ships, very understandably, have featured regularly.
Little wonder! We live on an island where the sea and our maritime heritage profoundly affects us in every way.
“The sound of a steamer’s horn at night still conjures up my whole boyhood,” admitted C.S. Lewis, who used to gaze across Belfast Lough and the shipyards with his beloved telescope.
One of the highlights of Lewis’s childhood was the annual seaside holiday with his mother and brother, often to Castlerock.
In 1901 his mother wrote home from the north coast to husband Albert “Today baby was very anxious
World's largest car ferry Ulysses heads to dry dock for annual overhaul
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World's largest car ferry Ulysses heads to dry dock for annual overhaul
Irish Ferries' main Holyhead to Dublin vessel will undergo maintenance work at Cammell Laird shipyard on
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