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A restoration and upgrade project. Approximately 40 year old plastic model of Oceanic. A German built and for many years operated Ocean Going Tug build 1969
Much to do as it needs a full mechanical refit, having just two 2mm shafts plus motors and a rudder but no other gear at all.
On the cosmetic side the superstructure needs some serious work as it has transfers for much of the detail, like windows, portholes, doors and vents. Strangely she has no handrails or companionways between decks, plus many other bits.
Have started a list of parts required to send off to Santa to see what may come at Christmas.
A restoration and upgrade project. Approximately 40 year old plastic model of Oceanic. A German built and for many years operated Ocean Going Tug build 1969
Much to do as it needs a full mechanical refit, having just two 2mm shafts plus motors and a rudder but no other gear at all.
On the cosmetic side the superstructure needs some serious work as it has transfers for much of the detail, like windows, portholes, doors and vents. Strangely she has no handrails or companionways between decks, plus many other bits.
Have started a list of parts required to send off to Santa to see what may come at Christmas.
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On the late watch this evening
Looks like Ro Ro is a tad older than we realise! Like 1851 and with trains and not road transport.
Attached is a link to an IMO page, a little heavy and tragic reading as it covers some sad history, which I remember! Also a Wikipedia page which is very similar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off
Nerys
Last one I went on weighed in at around 20,000 tonnes
SS Forde was less than 1000 Tonnes?? And initially not a Ro Ro either! How times have changed.
Added a more detailed link I found!
Ian
Nerys
Take a look at the attached link that good old Google has thrown up.
Looks like the first two ships Townsend used are repurposed RN vessels!
Ian
Re "Foundation Franklin"
Tush tush; poor research by that author!🙄
Apparently FF was built as HMS Frisky in 1918.
Scrapped in 1949 after being damaged in a hurricane the year before.
Cheers, Doug 😎
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Franklin
Nerys
Another famous actor owned a "Repurposed" ship, John Wayne, Wild Goose an ex WW2 Minesweeper that good old Google tells me is still in service as a Dinner Cruise Boat out of Newport CA.
Looks like it might have been an Apache (indian Tribes) class tug ?
Classic again - interesting history.
Have a book on Royal Navy tugs - but the one taken over by the Canadians and renamed Foundation Franklin is seemingly not listed at all. Although in her history author Farley Mowat clearly states that her original RN name (which escapes me at this moment ) was found on the builders plaque - which also gave the date of her build - no tugs of that class were listed in that year.........Strange
Thats more like it JB - classic lines - as you say a beautiful boat - wonder how he afforded it ?
JB
JB
Just re reading the thread, which is a tad off course from a model tug, but what the heck.
it would seem Superyacht is inaccurate, it looks like a sub set by the name Expedition Yacht is nearer the mark, especially given where they sail to. Antarctic Peninsular, transit of the Northwest Passage, destinations that one would nor expect from the shiny things in Monaco. Done the Antarctic, cannot afford to repeat so running on memories.
They Expedition Yachts do look like tugs, that is what they were, but they are strong well found vessels that deserve further use, not the cutters torch to end as bean cans.
ian
Absolutely, agree completely. Reuse comes way before the cutters torches!
Ian
I think a lot more ships should be repurposed instead of being scraped.
Martin555.
Nerys
Orrible JB - a giant plastic bottle - would suit Oracle however - one of the most useless systems I have ever worked with - very expensive and could not do the work done by a system costing perhaps 5% of the price - totally overated
JB
Just here on a quick run across the ditch!
JB
JB
Nerys
Me again, just another interesting aside, the link has details of Artic P voyage to the Antarctic Peninsular going as far as 67 . 50 south
Took the wife there for our Silver Wedding trip, we got to 68.17 south, Red Rock Ridge. Picture included, plus how you get ashore too. Awesome place, it was a bright sunny day with no swell at all. Around minus 5C with no wind. So beautiful to stand on the snow covered rocks and listen to the silence!! Have never been anywhere like it, and probably never will again!
Ian
Trawling around as you do and found this article on converted tugs. This is a sister ship of Oceanic that has been converted. It reads as if this was converted in Valetta, Malta. That may answer your question as to what Oceanic is doing in Malta.
Any how that is just an interesting diversion as the model will be rebuilt as a tug not a super yacht much more fun.
Ian
Nerys
Seems there is a whole bunch of these power ships.
Some still in Indonesia, some anchored off the Ghana coast and Lord knows where else🙄 Mostly converted bulk carriers as yousay.
What puzzles me is why they need tugs! They were built with their own propulsion!?
Whatever, bon chance with your refit, looking forward to the Blog👍
With ca 2kg payload (less weight of superstructure etc?) you have plenty of 'freeboard' to fit the goodies😉
Cheers, Doug 😎
Ah I to remember the programme featuring Indonesia Floating Power Stations on Mighty Ships. Am on dodgy ground here as I am using my memory, I seem to remember it was a refitted tanker or bulk carrier refitted with a number of Wartsila Diesel Gen sets and a Sub Station. All towed by tugs and anchored close in shore.
As has been said, not by Oceanic in this case.
Doug agree with the HO scale. That would also fit as I think it was built from a German Kit
More onto refit to follow in a Refit Blog.
Just a taste for a starter.
Have just done a test tank float out, as she is a bare boat with only two motors on board. Definitely unstable with no ballast, five cans of beans later and she is something like in trim. That gives me approx 2Kg of gear/batteries to play with.
Now drawing up a Bill of Quantities for the refit.
Nerys
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PS G'night all 😴💤
Nerys
That sounds like HO scale, 1:87, to me.
Re Floating power stations; that was her first use in Turkey, she was then called Osman 'something' I believe. Guess she got her new name of Orka Sultan when she was converted to a yacht.
Conversion must have been done, otherwise - what's she up to in Grand Harbour Valletta? They don't need floating power stations!😉
Happy renovating and converting. I can appreciate some of the challenges you will face along the way. Mucho head scratching!🤕
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS Seems she's underway and now in the Mamara Sea south-east of Istanbul.
https://www.myshiptracking.com/?mmsi=636016116
There also seems to be another, much bigger, ship of the same name belonging to the same company which IS equipped as a floating power station!?
Thanks for your comments
Your research matches mine. One bit of info suggested that she will be used to tow floating "Power Stations" to locations around Turkish coasts and then be converted into a Super Yacht for the owner.
As to the models scale, that is an interesting challenge. The real ship is 87 metres and the model is 40 inches which is approx 0.7 of an inch over a metre. So that is a odd ball one!!
Attached is a photo of what I think may be the original kit ???
I shall have fun with her restoration and later on the water
Cheers Ian
What size / scale is she?
She now seems to be Turkish owned,
https://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/tugs,-towing-and-salvage/oceanic-the-grand-old-lady-is-sold
renamed Orka Sultan and currently in Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:756051/mmsi:636016116/imo:6901490/vesselOCEANIC
Have fun with her 👍
Cheers, Doug 😎