Eastern City (5)
Ready to leave the building dock.These photos show the vessel when the building dock is to be flooded and the vessel towed around to the fitting out dock. This always happened on a Friday so the next ship could be started on the Monday. All the work in this dock was completed in 39 days. |
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| Eastern City just before the dock was flooded. The masking tape was removed before flooding. | ||
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| The bow section showing anodes and half round bars which are the protection from the anchor chain. | ||
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Above photo shows the grids on the sea suction boxes. The bolts are locked with copper wire. The photo on the right is an underneath view of the rudder showing welded inspection door and plug forward and aft.
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| The hull is now ready for floating out. On the hull there is a total of 118 anodes plus two small ones in each suction box. All photos copyright © Reardon Smith Ships. | ||
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Eastern City. Page [1] [2] [3] [4]
Building Eastern City. Page [1]
Memories from RSL staff. Page No. [1]