Talk:MS Berge Stahl

Etymology 'Berge Stahl'
I think it's useful to have the meaning of ship's name in the article. Ctbolt 01:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree, but had to remove the paragraph below because it is incorrect in several places:

The name Berge Stahl means "Steel Mountain" when translated directly from German to English, but many of Bergesen's ships are named Berge "Something", Berge may be used as both first and last name in Norwegian. The word Berge does also mean to save or rescue in Norwegian.


 * Now, why one would want to try a German-to-English-translation to analyze the name of a Norwegian ship is a bit beyond me, but anyway: As a German native speaker, I can tell for sure that "Berge Stahl" is not a correct German construction. "Steel mountain" would translate to "Stahlberg". "berge!" is, however, the imperative form of "to salvage" in both German and Norwegian, but I believe that all that's behind the name is a pun on the shipowner's name. --217.225.15.12 04:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Because 'Berge' is norwegian and 'Stahl' is german. The best (aproximate) translation I can come up with is 'Haul Steel'. 130.237.216.122 (talk) 09:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Is the Berge Stahl owned by Bergesen d.y. or the BW group? I want to know because I changed it from Bergesen d.y. to the BW Group. If Bergesen d.y. still operates as a subsidiary of the BW group please change it for me. Thanks! class="autosigned">—Preceding 24.22.115.31 (talk) 03:44, 7 October 2008 (UTC) 8:43 pacific time 6 October 2008unsigned comment added by 24.22.115.31 (talk) 01:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Satelite Imagery
http://www.terraserver.com/view.asp?cx=576252&cy=5757904&proj=32631&mpp=0.75&pic=img&prov=gx19&stac=2753&ovrl=-1&drwl=-1

I have no way of measuring her to be sure, but I believe that this is the Berge Stahl in the port of Rotterdam on the 1st of April 2004. It looks like her and she's the largest ship in the area. Can anyone confirm to me whether or not that's actually her?--165.84.1.71 (talk) 23:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Scrapped?
The original word from Berge Bulk seemingly was that she was to be scrapped, but this has apparently not happened as she has been continuing to operate throughout 2017. The current last position received was from the 30th of November 2017 and puts her on a course from Brazil to Sohar, Oman, indicating that's she's still carrying iron ore nearly a year after her supposed retirement. http://www.bergebulk.com/our-fleet/berge-stahl/ Furthermore the Berge Bulk website now says this, "After 30 years, the legend performed her last voyage to Rotterdam in the second half of 2016. She was then headed for dry dock, where she was refitted before commencing her new contract," with new contract apparently meaning that she's been put on to different route rather than scrapped, at least for the meantime.--101.98.222.59 (talk) 13:39, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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"A trip from Brazil to The Netherlands"
I've removed this entire section was it was unsourced and IMHO consisted of WP:Original Research, Thanks. – Davey 2010 Talk 20:44, 13 October 2020 (UTC)