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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #30 on: Dec 01, 2009, 08:13 PM »
See attached, sent to me by John Chillingworth, one of QE2's former Chief Engineers.

My Dad worked closely with the chap 2nd on the left, who also worked at John Browns - he's Willy Ireland.  John had hoped my father was also in this shot, but sadly he isn't, but I'm hoping John does have a photo of him in his vast collection.

Bill Coventry, the surveyor in the photo, framed the photo and put it in the chief engineers office on the ship.
John took it with him when he left the ship in 1989.

"they are doing what normally would have been a precision job on one of the turbine glands but in this case they are using a sledge hammer whilst your Dad is holding a brass dolly. "
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #31 on: Dec 03, 2009, 08:11 AM »
ROFL!!!!  That is a classic if ever I've seen one!  ;D

I just came across this forum yesterday & have always been a huge fan of the Cunard liners since I was a kid.

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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #32 on: Dec 14, 2009, 10:26 AM »
Another photo for the forum. The Engineering Department taken whilst alongside in N.Y. October 1986.
Chief Engineer John Chillingworth is shown front centre alongside the other Engineering Officers.
Me? Right of centre, blue overalls, arms folded in front of me. Next to the guy wearing the grey shirt.
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #33 on: Jan 26, 2010, 12:09 AM »
There's a fantastic video clip on facebook from Kenny Campbell of the engine room. Kenny... if you're reading this, perhaps you might consider posting the actual clip on here?

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4849581100&oid=2550025714
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #34 on: Mar 15, 2010, 10:38 PM »
Quick Quiz for the Engineers

What is   1-6-3-2-8-7-4-9-5   ?
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #35 on: Mar 15, 2010, 10:46 PM »
I'm not an engineer, but I can make an educated guess at that - engine sequence?
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #36 on: Mar 15, 2010, 10:50 PM »
Looks like the cylinder firing order  ;D
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #37 on: Mar 15, 2010, 10:52 PM »
Cylinder firing order.  The MAN's are straight 9 cylinder behemoths!
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« Reply #38 on: Apr 20, 2010, 03:54 PM »
As always thanks to youtube & gunner162 for posting , turn up the sound &  it still doesn't do it justice.    

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Re: For all of us who've never been in the bear pit
« Reply #39 on: Apr 20, 2010, 08:24 PM »
Awesome vid, thanks for the link!
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Re: For all of us who've never been in the bear pit
« Reply #40 on: Apr 21, 2010, 01:48 AM »
Gunner162 = Skilly56 ;D

My son Blair took this clip when he was on QE2 as a deck cadet in 2007.
After passing his 2nd mate's exams, Cunard put him straight back onto
QE2 as 3rd mate and he stayed with her until the ship was delivered to Dubai
in November 2008

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Re: For all of us who've never been in the bear pit
« Reply #41 on: Apr 28, 2010, 10:56 PM »
Ah! Nice one, thanks for uploading it for us all :-)
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2010, 02:07 PM »
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #43 on: May 17, 2010, 02:43 PM »
Wow... a fabulous picture. He should have been wearing... I SAID HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN WEARING EAR MUFFS THOUGH. TUT TUT!
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Re: Engine Room memories
« Reply #44 on: May 17, 2010, 05:05 PM »
Maybe they were switched off   lol

By the way just how do you start the engines.. in laymans terms.. push a button and off they go?
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