Description

The launch is always a very spectacular event. In the silence, after the breaking of the christening bottle, everyone's expectation is: will it or won't it.
In 1972 was the first launch of a series of tankers of 220,000 tonnes and larger from a longitudinal slipway at the Verolme-Rozenburg shipyard. Not only was the ship unique in its size but also this method of launching had never been seen before. This happened 35 years ago and is already history. The speaker, a retired shipbuilder, will go into some background and show various launches how things went right and how things went wrong.
If the christening bottle does not break, will that ship be an accident ship? Is there any superstition in this technique?

10.30 h Reception with coffee
11.00 h Lecture by ir. W.A.Th. Bik
11.45 h Break
12.15 h Continuation of the lecture with a concluding discussion
12.45 h End of the meeting



ROUTE DESCRIPTION
From motorway A13 Rotterdam or Den Haag, exit Delft Zuid/TU Delft. Keep following TU Delft. At the end of the exit TU Delft turn right onto Schoemakerstraat. Then take the first turn left and immediately left again across the bridge. You are now in the Bouwkunde car park (Van den Broekweg). The Cultural Centre is at the end of this road, across the Mekelweg. Due to work on the newly constructed 'Mekelpark', the Mekelweg is closed. Public transport via NS Delft-Zuid (see: www.snc.tudelft.nl, then on contact and then on directions).

Speaker(s)

W.A.Th. Bik

Location

Cultuurcentrum, Theaterzaal 232, Mekelweg 10

2628 CD Delft. PLEASE NOTE: changed location!!!

Organiser

History of Technology

Histechnica

www.snc.tudelft

Register via

Register with R. Lutke Schipholt, using the e-mail address below.

RenM-Schipholt@planet.nl