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taxi

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2. Isn't that the truth!

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Sun Mar 28, 2021, 09:51 AM

Mar 2021

Full astern and hard-a-starboard sounds familar. Oh, that's a different ship.

The Titanic

"Iceberg, right ahead!"

These three words were spoken by Lookout Frederick Fleet at 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912 from the crow’s nest of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. The story has come down that, reacting to this three-word warning, First Officer William Murdoch ordered "hard a-starboard." The ship started to turn left, but its bow grazed the iceberg.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/hard-a-starboard.html

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Can only imagine gusts of laughter if a Navy captain claimed their vessel "grounded due to strong wi [View all] soothsayer Mar 2021 OP

Considering this thing Sgent Mar 2021 #1

US air craft carriers transit the Suez Canal every couple of years hack89 Mar 2021 #3

Isn't that the truth! taxi Mar 2021 #2

If canal pilots were driving the thing, and I assume they are Egyptian, panader0 Mar 2021 #4

Does it not seem unlikely that something... 3catwoman3 Mar 2021 #5

I was on an aircraft carrier maxrandb Mar 2021 #7

Well its containers are stacked so high, they're like a sail soothsayer Mar 2021 #8

Thank you for the explanation. 3catwoman3 Mar 2021 #9

Actually, it's quite probable that it was the wind maxrandb Mar 2021 #6