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Predators and Prey

TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
So many new preds. The prey will come to fear our might.
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I fear NOTHING!!!!!


(Seriously I have a mortal dread of being trapped in a void of nothing....)
 

TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
Who's up for some FACTS?

Everyone? Good!

Continuing the Lord Armstrong and Victorian engineering topic...

As mentioned Armstrong's Elswick Works included shipbuilding, two notable projects were the SS Gluckauf (1885) and the Baikal (1896).
The Gluckauf was the first ocean going oil tanker to carry oil in tanks formed from the holds (the skin of the vessel) and had all her machinery mounted aft, making her the forerunner of the modern oil tanker.

The Baikal was a very unusual project. She was a 3000 ton train ferry to be operated on lake Baikal, however she couldn't be sailed there. So the ship was built, then dismantled into 7000 parts and shipped that way, then she was reassembled on the shore of the lake and entered service.
 
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