toward the vessel.  The lip or drip pad of the overboard discharge line, at the vessel's loaded draft, was then about 2 feet above the water level and some 4 feet below the level of the dock.  This was at the flaring contour of the bow so that the shell plating was in a plane in the shape of a spheroid.  Contact between the dock and the ship's port bow was an intentional part of the traditional and purposeful maneuver of simultaneously undocking and turning the vessel around for departure from the port of Santos.


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At 2133 hours September 10, the vessel, moored as customary, port side to the dock, was made ready for sea and for her customary maneuver away from the dock.  Shesingled up her mooring lines and a local Santos pilot came aboard to unberth the vessel.  Her engines were put on stand-by at 2157 hours.  The Tug Neptune made fast on the starboard quarter with a hawser in order to swing the stern of the Del Sud away from the dock out into the channel to permit her to turn about in a counterclockwise manner.  By 2208 hours the stern mooring lines and all lines other than the bow spring line and breast line were cast off.  The bow spring line and breast line were held fast to the dock in order to hold the port bow at the dock while the stern was brought out into the channel by means of the Tug