Cruise ship returns to Seattle after boiler room fire

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Jun 30, 201410:46 AM

No one is injured as the crew aboard Westerdam helps extinguish the flames

(SEATTLE) — The Holland America cruise ship Westerdam returned to port Saturday after a fire in the boiler room, The Seattle Times reported. The fire started about 5 p.m. near Kingston in Puget Sound as the ship was bound for Alaska. A combination of high-pressure mist and crewmembers using hoses extinguished the fire, said a Seattle Fire Department spokesman. No one was injured and no evacuations were needed

 

Procedure for Chief Engineers to Take Over Large Vessels

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Chief engineer of the ship is the head of the engine room department and the sole controlling authority for all machinery systems of the ship. He has the responsibility to ensure that all the systems of the ship function smoothly without any breakdown.

 

For this reason, while assigning duties of handling a ship, the chief engineer is required to go through a specific procedure to ensure safety of the new ship and its personnel.

The procedure for “taking over” of a large vessel is often divided into several steps starting from the briefing at the shipping office to that on the vessel.

Briefing at the Office

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Ancient bronze vessel reunited with lid in Hunan

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Published on Monday, 30 June 2014 16:26
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2014-06-30 16:45 China Daily Web Editor: Gu Liping

 
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Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee Xu Shousheng, Governor of Hunan province Du Jiahao, and Vice Minister of Culture Li Xiaojie together put the lid onto the Min Fang Lei vessel. [Photo by Zhou Guoqiang/asianewsphoto.com]

A 3,000-year-old Chinese wine vessel was reunited with its long-separated lid for the first time in nearly a century, at a reuniting ceremony in Hunan province on June 28. The ancient vessel called Min Fang Lei is considered the "king" of its kind, because it's the biggest and finest ever excavated in China.

Hunan Provincial Museum in central China has welcomed home

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Sailor jailed for deliberately charging his boat at another vessel in unprovoked attack

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Among his victims was an eight-year-old boy who was with a group of three  other people fishing from a skiff in Anchorage, Alaska