E-Type Maiden Voyage

There is always something advanced. Something You think You will never be able to experience. It is distant, but You can see. At the same time You do not even realize how people even get there.

The fastest, the biggest, the strongest... List is endless. But there should also be the best professionals

My first vessel as Second Officer was a proper ship, but small comparing to the ones I sail on now.

She sailed in Northern Europe. North and Baltic Sea.

I came out on deck being in Aarhus. In front of us was enormous piece of steel. I knew about that type of vessel from magazine. But for the first time I saw that ship with my own eyes.

There was also Chief Mate who complained about his life, family, not being promoted and that he was tired of small ships. That he belonged there. One board of one of those floating terminals.

He took his camera and started walking along the pier towards “Ebba Maersk”. Worth to mention that it took only a glance for me to know that she was just out from Odense Shipyard. Fresh paint, almost no draft. Maiden Voyage. During such voyages vessel is full of supervisors, technicians, company representatives.

I told my concerns in respect to stop my fellow mate from uselessly covering long distance. But he insisted on going to see his “next ship”(dreamer).

E-Type is almost 400-meter long. Accommodation is in the middle. Gangway is in the line. So You I thought he would have to cover 200 meters from stern of Ebba before he would start performing walk of shame back. But the guard stopped our glorious Chief before he had even reached aft part.

He came back with the comment that he had never wanted to go there in first place.

I sailed on E-Type one and half year later.