[QUOTE=c.captain;100551]agreed…1300 miles does not make it right offshore and ready to go on the rocks.
I will say though that I am surprised as hell that the ship is still afloat after drifting out there in the North Atlantic in the middle of winter. I wished there were photos available.[/QUOTE]
Good Lord, how I hate these abominations.
[QUOTE=c.captain;100551]
I will say though that I am surprised as hell that the ship is still afloat . . . I wished there were photos available.[/QUOTE]
Me too. I figured that the locator beacons stopped working because she went down. There have been at least two hurricane force storms cross that area.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;100552]Good Lord, how I hate these abominations.[/QUOTE]
HEY…those are my words! They’re copyrighted here you know and now you owe me royalties so pay up!
[QUOTE=c.captain;100554]HEY…those are my words! They’re copyrighted here you know and now you owe me royalties so pay up![/QUOTE]
OK, here’s your Snickers Bar. I thought it was Jujubes.
I can get so confused in my Dotage.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;100570]I can get so confused in my Dotage.[/QUOTE]
well just stop it!
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;100562]OK, here’s your Snickers Bar. I thought it was Jujubes.[/QUOTE]
actually I am a Mars Bar man myself but Snickers works just as well in a pinch…
thanks for the snak…MUNCH!
Hey Sweat n Grease, can ya fax me a drink? I finished my wine. Damn this is a nice room I’m staying in. Big soaker tub with air jets. Ahhhh
I can’t wait till it does come ashore somewhere, hopefully right in front of a Hilton on a beach.
It ought to be a useful target for someone to test a weapon on, and soon.
Word is around St. John’s is that the owner who purchased her at public auction for 250K dumped his contract to get it scrapped in the Dominican and has one to scrap her in Turkey. The tug that was initially towing her was slated to be scrapped also. I guess he got a free tow across the Atlantic 
[QUOTE=catherder;100581]Hey Sweat n Grease, can ya fax me a drink? I finished my wine.[/QUOTE]
Sure -
Got some cheap chardonnay, chilled, interested?
[QUOTE=catherder;100581]Damn this is a nice room I’m staying in. Big soaker tub with air jets. Ahhhh[/QUOTE]
So that was you splashing about in my hot tubby. Why didn’t you tell me?
Maybe the Royal Navy will use it for some live fire drills before it gets to close to the coast.
From Maritime Bulletin:
Lyubov Orlova, woman at her best
Category :- Accidents Author :- Editorial
Posted on February 25, 2013, 10:17 pm
Passengers vessel Lyubov Orlova last known position at 18:14 UTC Feb 24 13 was in 52 01N 035 43W. Vessel drifted some 700 nautical miles from St. John’s, Canada, in NE direction towards North Europe. Unsinkable Lyubov Orlova is heading for Europe, all on her own. Vessel is hardly posing any threat to shipping, less than small icebergs anyway, because she is easily spotted by radars and visually in good weather. Strange or not, but Lyubov Orlova is quite a topic in Canada, with a lot of attention drawn to Transport Canada, which permitted the 60-year old port tug to tow Lyubov Orlova through winter Northern Atlantic. Marine Consultant Mr. John C. McCarthy kidnly informed me, that:
“The Orlova was a mess in St. John’s Harbor for over 2 ans one half years - Transport Canada allowed the Tug Charlene Hunt to tow it out hoping it would be gone forever and not occupying extremely expensive dockage space in St. John’s Harbor”.
Orlova drove the authorities crazy, and as a Russian man with quite an experience in this respect, I can only witness, that Russian women are exceptionally skilful in driving men crazy, be the women live or impersonated in vessels’ names.
Voytenko Mikhail
Feb 26
Previous news:
Passenger vessel Lyubov Orlova drifting towards Europe
February 20, 2013
Unmanned passenger vessel Lyubov Orlova was spotted on Feb 19 13 in the vicinity 49 22.70N 044 51.34W in North Atlantic. Vessel is drifting towards Europe. Vessel sailed Russian Far East waters for many years, and was well known by seamen and coastal locals, nicknamed as Lyubka.
Lyubov Orlova lost in North Atlantic
February 17, 2013
Canadian Transportation Safety Board says a report into the circumstances surrounding the failed attempt to tow the Lyubov Orlova to the Caribbean for scrap will be released in about a year. The tug Charlene Hunt is being detained in St. John’s Harbour due to a long list of mechanical and safety deficiencies. The tow line from the Hunt broke just outside the Narrows, sending the Orlova adrift. After the derelict ship came uncomfortably close to offshore oil rigs, it was towed outside Canadian waters and is floating somewhere out in the North Atlantic. One of the owners of the ship, Reza Shoeybi, who is now living on the Charlene Hunt, is still hoping to retrieve the former Russian cruise ship.
Passenger vessel Lybov Orlova drifting in the Atlantic
January 26, 2013
The unmanned passenger vessel Lybov Orlova is drifting in the Atlantic after tow line broke in the afternoon Jan 24 13. Vessel was to be towed to Dominican Republic for dismantling, and left port of St. John’s, Canada, on Jan 23 on tow of tug Charlene Hunt. Lyubov Orlova was stranded in St. John’s since September 2010. In year 2002 vessel was refurbished and chartered by Quark Expeditions for the Antarctic and Cruise North Expeditions for the Arctic. Powerful cyclone is forming in North Atlantic, south of Cape Farewell in Greenland, with forecasting seas 10-15, up to 20 meters high. Vessel is not causing a hazard to marine traffic or the environment, says Transport Canada. On a photo Orlova in St. John’s harbour.
Passenger vessel Lyubov Orlova, IMO 7391434, 4251 gt, built 1976, flag Cook Islands. Tug Charlene Hunt, Callsign WDC4507, flag USA, length 29 meters, owner Hunts Tugs and Barges Inc.
Tagged Keywords: Tug Charlene Hunt, Passenger vessel Lyubov Orlova, IMO 7391434
She is now approaching the halfway mark in the Atlantic.
Location map
Are there other random empty ships out there, just sailing themselves around, or is it (as far as you know) just this one?
Anyone know what’ll happen to it eventually? Is it likely that some authority’ll take it in hand and dispose of it? What if it runs aground - will it just get left to bash itself to pieces, or will someone come and sweep up the pieces? Is anybody actually liable for it if it damages anything or sinks itself in a narrow channel or something?
If someone does go along and pick it up while it’s drifting about at sea, how’re they likely to do it? [I] (latter question asked in my capacity as total ignoramus, being as how I’ve only worked on sailing vessels, despite always looking at tugs and thinking “they’re so cool” as they go past)[/I].
[QUOTE=nobody special;101260]Are there other random empty ships out there, just sailing themselves around, or is it (as far as you know) just this one?
Anyone know what’ll happen to it eventually? Is it likely that some authority’ll take it in hand and dispose of it? What if it runs aground - will it just get left to bash itself to pieces, or will someone come and sweep up the pieces? Is anybody actually liable for it if it damages anything or sinks itself in a narrow channel or something?
If someone does go along and pick it up while it’s drifting about at sea, how’re they likely to do it? [I] (latter question asked in my capacity as total ignoramus, being as how I’ve only worked on sailing vessels, despite always looking at tugs and thinking “they’re so cool” as they go past)[/I].[/QUOTE]
If you really want to know how it will be done. (And learn a little about the ‘old time methods’) Find a book called “Grey seas under”. (Farley Mowat) It is old fashioned, but it pretty much sums up how this industry works. (the salvage industry.) Besides, it’s a really nostalgic look back at the towing industry. After looking at some of the responses, I have to go to the library and take it out… again. It really IS that good!
[QUOTE=cappy208;101267]If you really want to know how it will be done. (And learn a little about the ‘old time methods’) Find a book called “Grey seas under”. (Farley Mowat) It is old fashioned, but it pretty much sums up how this industry works. (the salvage industry.) Besides, it’s a really nostalgic look back at the towing industry.[/QUOTE]
That is a great book. I first read it while at sea onboard one of the Crowley tugs on the Lake Charles/San Juan run. I remember it was a winter run and the weather was crappy all the way across the Gulf and through the Old Bahama Channel. Better than “smellavision” or Sensurround. . . .
[QUOTE=cappy208;101267]If you really want to know how it will be done. (And learn a little about the ‘old time methods’) Find a book called “Grey seas under”. (Farley Mowat) It is old fashioned, but it pretty much sums up how this industry works. (the salvage industry.) Besides, it’s a really nostalgic look back at the towing industry.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I’ll have a rummage on Amazon 
there’s many first edition hardcover copies available at Addall.com
a must have for any mariner’s library!
