Back in the mid 1980’s I was working for a small 2 ship company running to Northern Europe. The ships were WW2 C4 troop transports that were converted to containerships by Seatrain. Before the company went under they started cutting corners to save or make money. Shortly after sailing Norfolk for Bremerhaven one trip we started rolling. That in itself is not unusual but the 30 second roll period was. The mate started checking the cargo manifest and discovered a number containers “mis-stowed”. The worst were 5th tier containers that should be light loads or empties had loads in them. Thankfully the weather gods were with us and we ballasted what we could to increase stability. As I recall the Captain and Mate had a closed door talk with shore side so that such mistakes were not repeated.
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