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Date Posted: 17:40:48 08/09/00 Wed
Author: Carl Ireton
Subject: Re: Raise the Britannic
In reply to: Remco 's message, "Re: Raise the Britannic" on 06:37:00 12/24/99 Fri

> > > Would it be possible to raise the Britannic?
> >
Does Simon Mills have an e-mail address I could send him a message to? Anybody know? Carl Ireton

> > It doesn't look like it took too much damage when it
> > went down.... Would it be possible to plug up such a
> > big hole in the hull? Then fill it with ping pong
> > balls? or foam?
> >
> > Maybe if someone could hook some chains and lift the
> > back a little and fire up the engines.. then throw it
> > into reverse,it would pull itself up from the merky
> > depths and rise once again...
> >
> > How much does the ship weigh with all the sea life
> and
> > build up on it? Would it tear apart if it was
> > raised,after being in the sea for so long...?
>
> I seriously doubt that it could be done, it'll cost a
> LOT of money for example.
> And after that, what would you do with her??
>
> Also remember that she's lying on her side, and
> putting her straight up would be very good I
> think....and the bow is only attached by C-deck to the
> rest of the ship, raising would mean removing the bow.
>
> And the engines don't work anymore, and it's very
> difficult to get permission, you'll have to get it
> from: Simon Mills, Greek government and the English
> government.
> She weighted about 48.158 tons as a hospitalship.
>
> I have a Yahoo!club(well, I got a co-founder, the
> 'real' founders want to raise her, I tried to talk it
> outta them....I left the name of the club as it was)
> If you look into the postarchive(please don't take
> notice of the message to send money), you can read al
> about
> it...<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/raisethebritannic">http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/raisethebritannic</a>
>
> Remco:-)

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