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  Certainly a wild old day and the dramatic photos above do it justice. The problem is not actually in leaving the harbour safely, it is in berthing safely in the first place. In those sort of winds, it takes a lot of fine judgement and bottle on the part of the Master to get the ship alongside the berth without either the ship or the berth suffering major damage. Equally, the deck crew handling the ropes and anchors have a very dangerous job at the best of times and this is exacerbated in heavy weather. For almost everybody else onboard, it is just another day at the office - unless a technical fault develops in which case the engineering staff are precipitated into a nailbiting cliffhanger to fix it pronto.

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