Post by nolonger on Apr 8, 2005 16:28:16 GMT -8
Ferryman said:
Hey back in the 80s didn't she smash into the dock at Horseshoe Bay and do lots of damage to the dock and her hull not long after she was launched. I'm not sure why, but I think her engines broke down coming into the dock or something. I remember BCTV bringing that up the day she had the fire and they showed her history. I bet that rumor is true, if a ship gets the same name another ship had before, then the second ship that gets called under that name gets cursed for its life or something. Anywho someone back me up on all of that.It was in the early '80s. She had pitch problems on the #2 end prop (forward) during a landing in Horseshoe Bay. Apparently the pitch was reversed so that instead of pushing to slow the vessel, it was in fact pulling her into the dock. The more thrust applied to stop her the faster she went and there was too little time after realizing the error to stop her up. About 5 years ago again in Horseshoe Bay, again during a landing, she blew a control air line thus leaving the bridge unable to operate her propulsion systems, and she had a "hard landing"