The Steamtug Blog

I have had to spend some time in the 4th biggest city in the USA, Houston. I have been part of the plant design review team who are still working out how everything is going to work in our new plant we are going to construct. So while in Houston, I got to catch a ball game… Baseball, it’s just not cricket! The Houston Astro’s were playing the Los Angeles Angels. Although we lost (me being such a big Astro’s fan…) it was a great experience to see a real live ball game. (continue reading…)

Is that a corvette I see? Did you know the Corvette stingray was actually named after a small navy ship. But this one is a full sized destroyer, USS Orleck. She was built in 1945 and just missed out on service in the second world war, but made up for it in the Korean and Vietnam wars. I was desperate to be in the engineroom of a steamship, and luckily these chaps didn’t mind me snooping around down below. (continue reading…)