Marine Pilot – Lowestoft

When I was a deck officer back in the early nineties I worked on a ship that used to load grain at different ports along the Mississippi river. The name of the ship was Golden Hope, a 600 feet long dry bulk carrier with a 95 feet in beam. An average size vessel for those days' standards.

Getting to work via the pilot cutter and Tees Foyboat.

A Pilot Boat alongside a Cruise Ship

What do you think about this unusual manoeuvre here?

Ships don't exactly have brakes. Lou Vest, a retired Houston ship channel pilot tells us about a close encounter between a ship and a barge.
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