The Globe tanker

[L4Everton]

Worlds largest container ship, docks for the first time in the UK. Felixtow only port big enough to handle it.

19,100 containers.

Edit: Felixstowe as well.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...the-worlds-biggest-ship-docks-in-Britain.html

A quarter of a mile long. That one on the solent hasn't been refloated yet has it.

 

[orchard]

Thanks kurt

 

[heatmeiser]

Is it bringing anything good?

It better not just be 500,000 cheap phone chargers.

 

[ste d' indica]

I guess they probably don't need a bigger boat.

 

[Moomin]

Is it bringing anything good?

It better not just be 500,000 cheap phone chargers.

Full of immigrants according to the Daily Mail.

 

[L4Everton]

Full of immigrants according to the Daily Mail.

I heard it was new knee's for Gibbo, all 500k, he'll need the lot.

 

[Toffeelover]

Another big pile of Chinese goods coming into the country!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Impressive bit of engineering.

 

[Toffeelover]

Impressive bit of engineering.

Bruce, it is big but basically just a great empty space inside a metal skin like an oil tanker.

 

[The Cowboy]

What always astounds me is how little of the ship is actually below the water.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Bruce, it is big but basically just a great empty space inside a metal skin like an oil tanker.

Aye, but I like stuff like this. Used to love watching the Megastructures programs when they were first done a while back.

 

[Maxwell]

Aye, but I like stuff like this. Used to love watching the Megastructures programs when they were first done a while back.

This might interest you then Bruce
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30394137

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This might interest you then Bruce
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30394137

Vast great thing, and they all require hardly any people to run them. That's arguably as impressive as the scale of them.

 

[Garrick]

I guess they probably don't need a bigger boat.

Man goes into cage.

Cage goes into salsa.

Shark's in the salsa.

Our shark.

 

[L4Everton]

Man goes into cage.

Cage goes into salsa.

Shark's in the salsa.

Our shark.

fairwell and adieu ye fair spanish ladies