Blue Star Logbook

Just been digitizing some old slides that I have not seen for years and here is one of Tuscan Star in Barry Docks form around July 1979. I was working on the RRS Shackleton at the time and the whole dock area was closed down one day complete with large police and security bods whilst we loaded several tons of high explosives that were destined to be detonated in the outer English Channel whilst using towed sonar scanner array. All went well until one charge exploded too near the stern and blew all the steering gear breakers so we lost steerage for a while until the the boys down dingly dell sorted it.