Silver Ray Completes Conveyance on River Ems

[Host Jazzbeau]

New article on CruiseIndustryNews:

Silver Ray Completes Conveyance [on River Ems]

 

Not your usual 'river cruise' but an interesting picture!

[RobInMN]

The Meyer Werft's Papenburg building amazes me. The fact that a ship the size of Odyssey (and CCL's Excellence class, NCL's Breakaway Plus class ships) is actually built indoors is unreal. The building hall is 504m long (482m of interior dock), 125m wide and 75m tall, with an 800 ton crane. Odyssey is 347m long and 49m wide. So the building is well over twice the width, and half again as long as Odyssey. Amazing. By comparison, Silver Ray is 244m long, and 30m wide. Can't find a height, but it's 11 decks compared to Odyssey's 16

 

The videos of the 22mile (36km) conveyance that ships built here have to do down the Ems to get to open sea are also amazing. The Ems is not that wide in many places, nor is it really all that deep in spots either.

 

 

 

[RobInMN]

Silver Ray's Float out:

 

 

[notamermaid]

The Ems is a river that like most starts with a tiny whole. Here the stream just a few hundred metres from its source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_(river)#/media/File:Ems_nahe_Quelle.jpg

 

River cruise ships can sail on the Ems, but that is only possible since modern man has altered the river. For the transport of the ocean ships the river is artificially dammed so much that ships of a draft of up to 8.50m can use it. This thing does it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emssperrwerk#/media/Datei:Flug_Leer_nach_Emden_2010_252.JPG

 

Would love to see that - flat land, sheep, all quiet and then this massive monster of a ship is coming past.

 

notamermaid