Ship porn

[2hats]

NOTAM issued for Russian Navy exercises ("training flights and rocket firings") east of Cyprus, active 10-15 and 17-22 November (though some Russian news outlets suggest a cruise missile strike on Syria during Wednesday).

The Russian carrier group is almost certainly around there as one sailor has been posting selfies on Twitter from that area.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Russian carrier group is almost certainly around there...

After careful analysis I think I've found it...

 

[HAL9000]

Quest tv 'built from disaster, Sunday 13th at 10pm. Safety systems and safer ship designs

TV Listings | Quest TV

 

[bi0boy]

The world's largest hovercraft. I guess it's not a ship as they have flights rather than voyages but whatevs:

 

[nuffsaid]

After careful analysis I think I've found it...

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You hit my aircraft carrier....

My go.......G6.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The world's largest hovercraft. I guess it's not a ship as they have flights rather than voyages but whatevs:

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Not exactly subtle, is it? Guessing it's an American thing?

 

[mauvais]

Not exactly subtle, is it? Guessing it's an American thing?

Soviet/Russian.

Spoils a few peoples' Baltic beach holidays every so often.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Soviet/Russian.

Spoils a few peoples' Baltic beach holidays every so often.

Oh yeah, here's the Sherman's effort...

 

[DotCommunist]

Not exactly subtle, is it? Guessing it's an American thing?

Russian engineering. We put a giant tank on a hovercraft because fuck you

 

[Sirena]

Remember the Titanic? Here it is compared to a modern cruise ship

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's all the same in the end though...

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Soviet/Russian.

Spoils a few peoples' Baltic beach holidays every so often.

I may be wrong but that doesnt look any bigger than the Seaspeed SRN4's that used to do the cross channel run pre Chunnel

 

[19sixtysix]

I may be wrong but that doesnt look any bigger than the Seaspeed SRN4's that used to do the cross channel run pre Chunnel

I thought the same but wiki says "The stretched SR.N4s (Super-4's) became the world's largest hovercraft, holding this title until the Russian Zubr class LCAC hovercrafts' arrival early in the 21st century."

 

[spliff]

 

[bi0boy]

America's first iron-clad warships, used in the civil war on the Mississippi

The USS Cairo, the first ship ever to be sunk by a remoetly operated mine, sunk in 1862:

 

[bi0boy]

Haruna in 1914 and in 1935. Loving all that shit they added on:

 

[Chz]

Oh yeah, the IJN went nuts with their masts. Fuso is insane.

The Kongo sisters are well pretty in comparison.

Edit: Compare a Fuso in as-built condition:

 

[oneflewover]

Our new carriers are going to be big. Didn't realise how big.

 

[oneflewover]

nope, didn't work. Video from twitter.

 

[cuppa tee]

pedal power houseboat.......

 

[Sirena]

3-masted barque 'Penang' in dry dock at Millwall 1932 ,London

 

[A380]

 

[Poi E]

Our new carriers are going to be big. Didn't realise how big.

 

[sim667]

Not strictly a ship, but my dive club is hoping our license to dive the A1 submarine will come through. Its English Heritage protected

HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties.

She was the lead ship of the first British A-class submarines (a second, much different A-class appeared towards the end of the Second World War), and the only one to have a single bow torpedo tube. She was actually sunk twice: first in 1904 when she became the first submarine casualty, with the loss of all hands; however, she was recovered, but sank again in 1911, this time when she was unmanned. The wreck was discovered in 1989 and is now a protected wreck.[3]

HMS A1 - Wikipedia

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not strictly a ship, but my dive club is hoping our license to dive the A1 submarine will come through. Its English Heritage protected

HMS A1 - Wikipedia

There's a WW2 tank in the sea near there too.

 

[sim667]

There's a WW2 tank in the sea near there too.

I'm going to dive the Far Mulberry next month, which is the remains of a floating Mulberry Harbour.

There's all sorts of wrecks smattered along the South Coast.

I might try and see if I can do HMT Pine with the club too....... but at the moment it looks like I'm diving every weekend, and I may need a break, especially as my ears tend to be utter arseholes.

 

[Sirena]

It's not really ship porn but it's interesting to see the Finns playing chicken with an icebreaker. 1920s

 

[coley]

Our new carriers are going to be big. Didn't realise how big.

All that money, sunk by a cheap underwater drone

 

[coley]

How those things don't capsize is beyond me?

 

[coley]

Well we don't have that many fishing boats now still better safe than sorryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

Never heard of that, ta.