Re: Oooops! Suez Blocked
Originally Posted by
reg
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With speeds restricted to 8knots(to reduce erosion to the banks)and taking up to 16hrs to travel the distance I can see that as being correct.
The ones, coming from the South, would hold up, in the lake, and wait for the South bound vessels to go by.
Passing, anywhere else, was not an option.
Back in 1956, I was on a Shell tanker, coming back from the gulf, when the canal was closed by the war.
Shell decided that routing round the cape was not an option and changed the ship's base to Singapore!
I finally got home after 14 months.
A lot of knock on effects when something like this happens.