What's amazing is that the scrap value of a ship built in the 30s is high enough to justify the two ocean going tugs and the incredible amount of manhours of towing halfway across the world to the scrappers!
TS Pretoria (1936-45) TS Empire Doon (1945-49) TS Empire Orwell (1945-49) TS Gunung Djati (1949-73) MV Gunung Djati (1973-80) KRI Tanjung (1980-84) Very interesting history of this ship Scrapped in 1987
Wish they had an English translation. Even with all the naval changes you can still see that she must have been a really beautiful passenger liner, the SS Pretoria, when she was new in 1936. Sad that she could not have had some of her dignity restored by returning to that use before being scrapped. You don't see many ships as beautiful as she must have been anymore. The ships being build and used today in the cruise industry are so ugly and look more like pizza boxes stacked one on top of the other.
Nice movie!! In the days that Smit Tak was all around the world with his big sea tug boates. And the proude dutch people who loves big sea tugs called this "Dutch Glory" but these days are gone. They are all sold or scrapped no sentimental feelings says a now days "manager" to bad these days are gone, and also that there is none of these big sea tugs installed as a museum ship, maby the former Smit Singapore, she is still working, but i guess she will be scrapped some day....
The vesel being towed looks like an old passenger vessel which has been converted to a naval support ship. It is very old, maybe from the fourties, plus minus?? Anyone know the name of this vessel?
Nice to hear Lowieke van 't Wout's voice ones more.!
What's amazing is that the scrap value of a ship built in the 30s is high enough to justify the two ocean going tugs and the incredible amount of manhours of towing halfway across the world to the scrappers!
The last Indonesian navy as KRI TANJUNG PANDAN 971
mooi filmpje over vergane tijden van Hollands trots en een mooie stomer waar er ook maar weinig van zijn nog
TS Pretoria (1936-45)
TS Empire Doon (1945-49)
TS Empire Orwell (1945-49)
TS Gunung Djati (1949-73)
MV Gunung Djati (1973-80)
KRI Tanjung (1980-84)
Very interesting history of this ship
Scrapped in 1987
Wish they had an English translation. Even with all the naval changes you can still see that she must have been a really beautiful passenger liner, the SS Pretoria, when she was new in 1936. Sad that she could not have had some of her dignity restored by returning to that use before being scrapped. You don't see many ships as beautiful as she must have been anymore. The ships being build and used today in the cruise industry are so ugly and look more like pizza boxes stacked one on top of the other.
it is Dutch since these tugs are dutch ships
and because it is mainly chi-chat it is hardly worth the effort
Nice movie!! In the days that Smit Tak was all around the world with his big sea tug boates. And the proude dutch people who loves big sea tugs called this "Dutch Glory" but these days are gone. They are all sold or scrapped no sentimental feelings says a now days "manager" to bad these days are gone, and also that there is none of these big sea tugs installed as a museum ship, maby the former Smit Singapore, she is still working, but i guess she will be scrapped some day....
Looks like one of the American President Line's ships... one of the President class...
The vesel being towed looks like an old passenger vessel which has been converted to a naval support ship. It is very old, maybe from the fourties, plus minus?? Anyone know the name of this vessel?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TS_Pretoria
Hij wil niet in het beeld,zijn moeder weet niet dat hij daar is😉
*starring
I see guy martins dad
liberty ship? ??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TS_Pretoria
Richard Cline Thanks for that tidbit of history.
Nice interference of radar in soundtrack...
Can talk English language