Branch Notes - September 2018
Harry Spong recently visited Meyer Werft, Papenburg ship builders, on an excursion from one of his many cruises. His presentation told us that this family firm dating from 1795 was for many years working on a restricted site 56 kilometres from the sea and modest sized vessels were their normal output. Even their first large liner HOMERIC (47,000/1986) was launched sideways. Now, with greatly expanded facilities, ships like NORWEGIAN BLISS (168,000/2018) are taken down the river stern first. We greatly enjoyed the evening enlivened with many facts and anecdotes about the company and his own experiences cruising in Meyer’s and other ships.