# More bridge steering issues

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [August 3, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279 "2024-08-03T14:56:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/1 "2024-08-03T14:56:36Z")

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> **[The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was briefly closed when a nearby ship had a...](https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/08/the-chesapeake-bay-bridge-was-briefly-closed-when-a-nearby-ship-had-a-steering-problem/)**
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> The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was briefly closed when a 946-foot vessel on its way to a scrapyard had a steering problem nearby, but it passed safely, officials said.

Seems like it all was fixed with no collisions, but we are understandably sensitive about more of our bridges getting knocked over before they fix the first one!

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**Author:** ![DamnYankee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/damnyankee/32/514_2.png) [@DamnYankee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DamnYankee)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/2 "2024-08-03T15:45:15Z")

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Letting any ready reserve fleet ship operate without tug assistance within the COLREGS demarcation line is a foolhardy pursuit in my opinion. An SL-7 on its way to the boneyard, is taking that to a new level entirely.

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**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/3 "2024-08-03T16:10:41Z")

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One last trip, what could possibly go wrong?

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**Author:** ![Zinopower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/aca169/32.png) [@Zinopower](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Zinopower)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/4 "2024-08-04T12:23:52Z")

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Was just talking about Algol class vessels with my son the other day. Those things were very fast, with 120,000 hp of steam turbine goodness. Glad there was no incident. Hopefully the crew gets to stretch her legs on the way down to the grave. Would be plenty fun to run 33 knots on a 946 ft ship if only for a few hours. And take some  
Video of wake, bow wave and in the engine room !

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**Author:** ![Bayrunner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/bayrunner/32/966_2.png) [@Bayrunner](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bayrunner)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/5 "2024-08-05T16:54:49Z")

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The Denebola is going to Beaumont, not Brownsville. At least not yet.

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**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/6 "2024-08-05T17:57:35Z")

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Are they all being scrapped or just this one?

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**Author:** ![BeerCaptain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@BeerCaptain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/BeerCaptain)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/more-bridge-steering-issues/70279/7 "2024-08-05T18:41:56Z")

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All of them sadly.

Also not scrapped yet but going into retention status in Beaumont. Just rafted up and rotting away.