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OCEANS BIG FISH FOR MCMULLEN AND WING This September, Big Fish comes back to McMullen and Wing, the yard where she was built, to undergo her first significant refit. TITANIC SERIES OF DISASTERS The superstition that bad luck comes in threes certainly rang true for British born Violet Jessop. Violet joined the White Star Line as a stewardess in 1910 and narrowly escaped from SS Olympic when it collided with a British cruiser in 1911. Just one year later, she was rescued from the sinking RMS Titanic, Olympic's sister ship, on the morning of April 15, 1912. A lucky survivor, Violet was picked up by the rescue ship Carpathia from Lifeboat 16. Her certificate of discharge records: Titanic, discharged April 15, 1912. At Sea. It was an abrupt end to a disastrous voyage, but there was more to come. During the First World War Violet enlisted as a nurse. She almost drowned when her ship HMHS Britannic, Olympic and Titanic's other sister ship, was struck by enemy mines and sank. Even after three narrow misses she continued serving at sea until her retirement in the 1950s. As one of the few crew members to survive the Titanic disaster Violet received a rose gold and pearl medal In Memory of Titanic minted by Vaughtons of Birmingham in 1928. Only two of these medals exist in Australia. The first was given to Violet, and the second to another Titanic stewardess Kate Gold, who later retired in Queensland. Both medals along with Violet's certificates of discharge, are now on display in the South Australian Maritime Museum's exhibition RMS Titanic: Voyage of the Century. JAW DROPPING MILESTONE Western Australia's Port Hedland is known for exporting vast tonnages of iron ore per annum. The port passed a huge milestone recently when a jaw-dropping one million tonnes of ore was shipped out of the Pilbara region port on a single tide, just three hours! BHP, FMG and Atlas Iron are estimated to export around four hundred million tonnes through the port each year, so it came as no surprise that the million-tonne target would be broken. It was only a matter of weeks ago that the port saw a single-tide shipment of 950,000 tonnes head out over the horizon. Shipments of this magnitude will become the norm as there are plans to double the yearly output over the coming years. Port manager John Finch says the port is gearing up in both manpower and infrastructure levels to achieve those projected targets. McMullen and Wing built Big Fish in 2010. Since then she has completed more than 60,000 nautical miles of charter and world cruising, including visits to the most remote and exotic destinations on earth, earning a name for being among the world's most active charter yachts and one of the most travelled cruising yachts in modern yachting. McMullen and Wing will be working with Diverse Projects Ltd on a four month refit and maintenance period. Big Fish is a 45m luxury expedition motor yacht built by McMullen and Wing for Aquos Yachts to a design by Gregory C Marshall Naval Architects. Her masculine lines, luxury expedition capabilities and innovative features that include opening bulwarks and terraces, internal tender stowage and advanced audio visual system have earned her numerous awards including major recognition in the International Superyacht Society Awards, Showboats International Awards, World Yachts Trophy, World Superyacht Awards and Asian Boating Awards. McMullen and Wing will be giving Big Fish and her extraordinary, all-purpose, custom aluminium tender, Triple Ripple, a fresh coat of paint as well as a full service of electrical and mechanical systems. HOTEL QE2 The former Cunard flagship Queen Elizabeth 2 will open to the public as a floating hotel in Dubai in 18 months. The future of the former luxury liner has been uncertain since November 2008 when she was towed to Dubai amid plans for conversion to a luxury hotel and conference centre, but these have been on hold in the wake of the recession. The once stately liner can now look forward to a future as a 300 room floating hotel complete with all her original fittings and furnishings, including the name of her original port of registry, "Southampton" emblazoned across her stern. Queen Elizabeth 2 NZ'S LARGEST EVER SUGAR CARGO The largest single cargo of raw sugar to be shipped to New Zealand arrived at the Chelsea Sugar wharf in July on the MV Lyttelton. The MV Lyttelton was carrying 32,250 tonnes of raw sugar from Queensland and is the first of the new season's sugar cane harvested by Queensland growers. The supplier, Queensland Sugar Limited, has shipped over 5.4 million tonnes to Chelsea since 1972. The Chelsea Sugar Refinery will take six weeks to process this consignment into a range of around 30 different sugars and sugar based ingredients. A significant amount of product will also be exported to markets in the Pacific Islands, Australia and Japan. The Birkenhead site was originally chosen for sugar refining because of its natural deep water berth, and when the Harbour 68 Professional Skipper September/October 2012