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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.in 1996, the Erskine Bridge was hit by an oil platform loaded on a barge. it was shut for months, and it cost £3m to repair, with a further cost of £0.7m in lost tolls. the Scottish government claimed on the 6 companies who built and transported the platform.
in 1960, the Severn Rail bridge was partially demolished by 2 barges that overshot Sharpness Docks in thick fog. the bridge carried a gas main, fracture of which cut the Forest of Dean off from the networked gas supply. the bridge was going to be repaired but 2 subsequent collisions (by a capsized tanker, and a crane barge belonging to the company who were to repair it) rendered the bridge beyond repair.
There's a good article about the bridge in Wiki:
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There is a large picture of the entire bridge, one of which can be enlarged. I've taken a snip of the base of one of the main piers and you can see there is nothing in the way of protection provided. In any case, a 32,000 ton ship, seemingly out of control (as reports suggest) is going to make easy meat of anything that may have been provided.
"err - as "a bridge" I would say it was totally destroyed."
I liked thought that too dave. Partially????
"...the ship appears to have lost power immediately before the collision."
Seems that way, mush. The lights also went out when it was further away from the bridge. There is thick black smoke coming from the funnels. This looks like "clag" which typically presents itself when attempts are made to start large diesel engines and incomplete combustion occurs.
The engine room looks like it is functioning as there is black smoke from the stacks right up to the collision. The way I look at it the ship appears to have gone under and immediately u-turned as if it had lost steerage and then hit the pier under power.I can't believe a vessel that size could turn so quickly.My eyes must be deceiving me.
12:50 the bit that collapsed is only about 30% of the whole bridge, hence "partially":
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