Corrosion Devastation of Trawlers

A correspondent writes: Anyone in search of a dramatic illustration of the effects of corrosion and neglect need look no further than the illustrations reproduced on this page. A recent issue of a leading Calcutta daily English‐language paper featured a story on the deep‐sea trawlers Kalyani IV and V. The incredibly bad state of repair of the vessels is illustrated by the photograph (by courtesy of the Statesman) of the condition of the steel floor of the captain's cabin of of the Kalyani V and is confirmed by your correspondent who visited the government shipyard carrying out the repairs. One wonders where, in fact, the captain resided or how the obvious inroads of corrosion could have been ignored. The corrosion, largely, was caused by escaping fluid from the cooling system.