SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
When it comes to ships porn and good looks not much is gonna beat the Cutty Sark in the good looks department
Ship porn
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sleaterkinney
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USS Ohio in the Panama Canal:
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
In the bad looks department, here's the USS Zumwalt, the lead ship in a new class of guided missile destroyers. The production run has been halted at three due to cost overruns etc and the USN has gone back to more tried and tested designs.
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
HM Bark Endeavour anchored Port Davey, Tasmania.
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There might not be as precise or have the same range, but those big naval guns carried by the battleships of yesteryear piss all over cruise missiles AFAIC.tbh although now outdated to some extent the old battleship, for me, trumps the aircraft carrier
There was a breathtaking aerial photograph of a WWII US destroyer firing its big guns. The ripples the sonic boom made on the sea surrounding the ship were amazing. I'll see if I can find it.
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pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
The British designed a submarine that contained a plane in the conning tower. During testing it flooded and all 60 crew died when it flooded. Having a plane hanger in the conning tower wasn't the best ever plan. Ingenious though.
The US did something similar with an early cruise missile. The USS Growler - A boat so leaky with a missile so unreliable that it was often said to present a far greater threat to Canada than any country it might actually be targeting!
Yup. All of those 'clippers' were lovely to look at. Another one that Underhill waxed lyrical about in that book I mentioned upthread was this little beauty, Coriolanus, built in 1876:
There might not be as precise or have the same range, but those big naval guns carried by the battleships of yesteryear piss all over cruise missiles AFAIC.
There was a breathtaking aerial photograph of a WWII US destroyer firing its big guns. The ripples the sonic boom made on the sea surrounding the ship were amazing. I'll see if I can find it.
ETA: Found it...
That's not a destroyer; it's an Iowa-class battleship! IIRC that photo was taken in the early 1990s. The last time a battleship fired its guns in anger was one of the Iowas, which was used for bombarding targets on shore during the first Gulf War. All of the Iowas still exist and a couple could theoretically be reactivated, although it's unlikely to happen.
*e2a* No they can't - they've all been formally retired now, and donated for use as museum ships.
For my money, though, HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy's last battleship, is better-looking:
Apparently she was a better sea boat than the American ones as well, and could carry on steaming at speed in weather that forced them to heave to. On the downside her guns dated from World War I, and she was launched too late to see any action in World War II. She never fired her guns in anger and never saw service much more strenuous than NATO exercises and carrying the odd Royal tour party. For years she was known as 'Portsmouth's most expensive luncheon club,' before she was broken up in 1960.
Apparently she was a better sea boat than the American ones as well, and could carry on steaming at speed in weather that forced them to heave to. On the downside her guns dated from World War I, and she was launched too late to see any action in World War II. She never fired her guns in anger and never saw service much more strenuous than NATO exercises and carrying the odd Royal tour party. For years she was known as 'Portsmouth's most expensive luncheon club,' before she was broken up in 1960.
The Thomas W Lawson, the biggest sailing ship without an engine.
I'm not a fan of those big American schooners. They look odd, and they were difficult to handle and ultimately quite dangerous. Best you can say for Lawson is that she's marginally less hideous than this ugly duckling:
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DaveCinzano
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What about a ship carrying ships?
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mauvais
on reddit or something
That's the Missouri. Ohio is a submarine, at least in its latest form.USS Ohio in the Panama Canal:
sleaterkinney
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It is too.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Whichever it is - that is a *tight* fit in that lock ! the pilot earned his crust if she got in there without touching, even under tow you need a good hand or three on the wheel.
Bahnhof Strasse
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Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
This is also the class of ship as featured in Under Seige
oneflewover
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Superb looking and berthed hereAlways had a liking for the lines of the NS Savannah - It may have been everything bad about transport in its era i.e. Nuclear powered, impractical/compromised as a cargo vessel due to its design brief and a dinosaur even before it was launched due to changes in shipping as transport for people but it did'nt-half look good!
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And whilst searching, this ship within a ship (floating drydock?)
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oneflewover
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bi0boy
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In terms of big sailing ships, give me a square-rigger like Preussen, or her compatriot the five-masted barque Potosi:
I'm not a fan of those big American schooners. They look odd, and they were difficult to handle and ultimately quite dangerous. Best you can say for Lawson is that she's marginally less hideous than this ugly duckling:
While I agree those American ones are fugly, I do think a decent schooner is more pleasant to look at than too much square-rigging:
pogofish
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QUOTE="oneflewover, post: 14407129, member: 22104"]Superb looking and berthed here
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And whilst searching, this ship within a ship (floating drydock?)
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Yup - the Savannah has moved around a bit the last few years as steps were taken to maintain/preserve it.
If you have a look at older images on Google Earth proper, thanks to slow updating, you can find one image where it can be seen moored right next to the other redundant floating reactor ship in the James River Fleet and in the BAE shipyard at Newport News!
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And whilst searching, this ship within a ship (floating drydock?)
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Yup - the Savannah has moved around a bit the last few years as steps were taken to maintain/preserve it.
If you have a look at older images on Google Earth proper, thanks to slow updating, you can find one image where it can be seen moored right next to the other redundant floating reactor ship in the James River Fleet and in the BAE shipyard at Newport News!
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Seems like i'm spamming but this is now my favourite video on the internetz
