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19. If at sea, better to get away from land.

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 12:01 PM

Oct 2012

If in port, or can reach port before storm, better off there. 500 years of history tells us sailing ships and hurricanes don't mix.
A square-rigged cruise ship sank in a hurricane in the Carribean in the 80s trying to outrun the storm. All crew dead. The topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore capsized and sunk in a sudden storm. Half the crew dead. Full ship Palomir sunk in Atlantic storm about 1960, I think all crew died.

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Some crew rescued as ship sinks in Sandy's path [View all] dipsydoodle Oct 2012 OP

Way to go Coast Guard! Botany Oct 2012 #1

Silly socialist coastguard personel! go west young man Oct 2012 #12

The Coast Guard is great! kentauros Oct 2012 #14

they have a 1.5 year waiting list to join enlisted service and ... Botany Oct 2012 #15

I didn't know that! kentauros Oct 2012 #17

Congress keeps cutting their funding. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #25

I knew about them being involved with the DEA and Customs kentauros Oct 2012 #36

That was the fifty year old HMS Bounty reproduction Kolesar Oct 2012 #2

Plenty of pictures of her here dipsydoodle Oct 2012 #3

Um, pardon me, but WTF were they trying to sail it "around" a hurricane? The Stranger Oct 2012 #23

Dry docking it might have helped if it was pulled far from shore but,... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #26

The ship can be replaced. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #30

This only LOOKED like an old fashioned ship. It was a powered reproduction.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #31

No, it was a replica of a 19th century sailing ship. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #33

I know that, what I'm saying is while this ship had full rigging, it's wasn't it's primary power. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #39

The weight and windage of that rigging and masts adversely affects stability. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #41

I think it went faster than 8 knotts. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #44

Just got off phone with my father. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #45

Oh wow. This is looking more and more like a major screwup to put that ship at sea. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #47

I don't know if they made any stops after leaving Boothbay. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #50

No doubt the waves went over the deck. They must have been huge. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #51

Yes. 18 feet isn't all that high, but.... HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #52

If the waves were coming from all directions as you say you can't exactly steer into them. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #53

Yes, exactly. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #54

Yep. Sailing ship and hurricane a bad mix. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #28

The storm is not a surprise, what were they doing there? Democat Oct 2012 #4

A vessel can take a pounding in the breakers or if tied to pier during the hurricane swell Kolesar Oct 2012 #5

For a ship like this they would often send it as far up a river as they could. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #29

The thing with sailing ships is that land is a danger in a storm Recursion Oct 2012 #6

If at sea, better to get away from land. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #19

Tall ship cruise vessel Fantome sank in Hurricane Mitch in 1998 DinahMoeHum Oct 2012 #27

Tnx. Fantome was the ship I was thinking of. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #32

It's not just these types of ships either.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #48

The size of the storm is. Posteritatis Oct 2012 #34

they are now saying there were 16 on board not 17; 2 still unaccounted for. planes searching Justice Oct 2012 #7

Did it sink? nichomachus Oct 2012 #8

That ship not safer at sea in storm. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #9

She was bermuda rigged, from the pictures I can see (nt) Recursion Oct 2012 #11

No it is not! HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #18

My bad! I was looking at the wrong ship Recursion Oct 2012 #21

What a shame. Old and In the Way Oct 2012 #10

.."The old Navy Brig" formercia Oct 2012 #16

"Graveyard of the Atlantic" NCarolinawoman Oct 2012 #13

Sad it made it way up the Hudson a few times... Historic NY Oct 2012 #20

oh no - I booked passage on that ship for 4 days CitizenLeft Oct 2012 #22

That headline should get some kind of booby prize for spin slackmaster Oct 2012 #24

I believe it sunk after it had been abandoned. dipsydoodle Oct 2012 #35

Very sad bec Oct 2012 #37

Body found in Bounty search dipsydoodle Oct 2012 #38

She was alive but has passed... bluedigger Oct 2012 #43

News about her HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #46

Pray for Captain Robin Walbridge. Historic NY Oct 2012 #40

Thank to the men & women of the Coast Guard..... skeewee08 Oct 2012 #42

The tall ships have a call that sometimes can not be resisted. PavePusher Oct 2012 #49