Great Video Mersey Shipping. What's all that steam about on Aquitaine. Was the laundry being done? Was that smaller tender we see in the video connected to the Aquitaine. It amazes me that the I-O-M ferry's can moor easily to the stage without assistance, and I'm assuming a fast frigate like Aquitaine will be twin screw. So why do they need tugs. She is a little Rusty too.
The little tenders was heading out to the windfarm, they were HST Brixham and HST Llanelli. Yeah your right, the IOM ferry can berth a lot easier than the smaller Reigate. Strange. The tugs helped her turn in the river and gave her a couple of nudges to help her alongside the terminal. Thanks once again.
The Aquitaine class is not only twin screwed, but it also has a deployable rotary electric motor behind the bow to manoeuvre by itself. In this case we see a tug because it is custom for a foreign ship unaccustomed to a port to be tugged, not because it can’t do it by itself. As for the steam, it is its side waterline exhaust, to reduce infrared signature for stealth purposes. It is the exhaust of the two forward diesel generators that power the electric motors . Sometimes in relatively cold water it appears as vapour.
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Great Video Mersey Shipping. What's all that steam about on Aquitaine. Was the laundry being done? Was that smaller tender we see in the video connected to the Aquitaine. It amazes me that the I-O-M ferry's can moor easily to the stage without assistance, and I'm assuming a fast frigate like Aquitaine will be twin screw. So why do they need tugs. She is a little Rusty too.
The little tenders was heading out to the windfarm, they were HST Brixham and HST Llanelli. Yeah your right, the IOM ferry can berth a lot easier than the smaller Reigate. Strange. The tugs helped her turn in the river and gave her a couple of nudges to help her alongside the terminal. Thanks once again.
The Aquitaine class is not only twin screwed, but it also has a deployable rotary electric motor behind the bow to manoeuvre by itself. In this case we see a tug because it is custom for a foreign ship unaccustomed to a port to be tugged, not because it can’t do it by itself. As for the steam, it is its side waterline exhaust, to reduce infrared signature for stealth purposes. It is the exhaust of the two forward diesel generators that power the electric motors . Sometimes in relatively cold water it appears as vapour.
@@brunol-p_g8800 Thank you very much for your informative reply.
Has it come to pickup arms for Ukraine?
Not sure what she's in for, but she's here for a few days.
No last defence ciws