This is from the stability thread, anyone have more info on this? the capsizing and sinking of eight offshore supply vessels in the Gulf of Mexico between 1956 and 1963

In the ‘50s and ‘60s, the mud tanks were on the main deck. Usually just aft the house there were usually 2-1000 cubic ft tanks. They’d normally keep the fwd tank for cement and the aft for bulk mud. With a deck load of drill collar and drill pipe on these 150’ to 165’ mudboats, things could get a li…

[IMG_2678] A problem with this type of ship is the large deck area, affectionately called the bathtub by the crew, that can result in large amounts of water being trapped and flowing freely on the deck. With this ship you can take on, if fully filled, as much 691 tons of seawater and that on a rela…

My first involvement with the offshore industry was in 1970 on this type of “mud boats”. My first job was on a boat very much as you describe; Built by Burton in 1965, 165 ft.LOA,198 GRT, 1500 Hp. Two portable mud tanks and a compressor was situated just aft of the towing winch, which was also “por…

I believe quite a few of the GoM-type boats capsized in the North Sea because they did not use caps to close off the ends of casings and no dunnage to ensure proper drainage? (Second/third hand information, I was not there)

[image] ombugge: Compound driven by a V-71 diesel and the Chief Eng. seated on a little “tractor seat” straddling the engine with the drum right beside him. What we have here is a Tidex self contained suitcase winch. All tidewater mudboats from the late '50s into the '80s have winch base plat…

Pretty sure that’s the way the Moon Tide went down. Different part of the world though.

The Smit Lloyd boats were very well designed and were well equiped. Our oil patch is very unforgiving and the weather can change quickly. Even the port has to be abandoned in a North westerly gale. Dutchie was quite correct concerning the amount of water on deck. When a rigmove is cancelled due to w…

Brings back old memories of the Dutch Smit Lloyd supply vessels with a length of 180 feet. I attended the sea trials of the Smit Lloyd 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14. The Smit Lloyd number 13 was in good seaman’s fashion skipped. During the sea trials in bad weather the ship was a mess as the yard personnel v…

[image] cmakin: Folks not complying to the requirements stated in the stability letter. . . Some of the older vessels from the '50s I’ve heard were classed as self propelled barges.

The capsizing and sinking of eight offshore supply vessels in the Gulf of Mexico between 1956 and 1963

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cmakin May 30, 2018, 10:53am 3

Folks not complying to the requirements stated in the stability letter. . . .

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The capsizing and sinking of eight offshore supply vessels in the Gulf of Mexico between 1956 and 1963

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