SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I think the record should be how many of the containers are still there when the ship arrives at the other end.
Ship porn
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I think the record should be how many of the containers are still there when the ship arrives at the other end.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Subscribed - As a boy spent all my time around the docks in Hull watching the ships come in and dock yard operations. Still can't go places for holidays or trips unless I get to see a bit of sea.
Sitting at Castle Monjuic looking out over the Docks in Barcelona - i've lost hours.
Sitting at Castle Monjuic looking out over the Docks in Barcelona - i've lost hours.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's on the equator, so the sea is slanty there, any fool who looks at a globe can see that.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I love this picture.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
it's amazing it doesn't attract more water skiers
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Always 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!
Flickr set of interiors and other stuff:
NS Savannah
Ships must run in the family a bit - My father started his working life in the Greenock shipyards and his father was one of the men who built this:
handyman121
Well-Known Member
The wreck of the Preussen, near Dover.^ I saw that in Yarmouth last summer (e2a the ship in StoneRoad's post.
Modern ships are mighty impressive in terms of efficiency, but they're hardly pretty. Have some old ships, thread:
Preussen, built in 1902. One of the largest commercial sailing ships ever built.
SS United States, 1952. She's been laid up since being withdrawn from service in the 60s and seemed destined for the scrapyard, but AFAIK there are now moves afoot to reactivate her.
Pilgrim, an old Brixham trawler. I love these things - they're so functional, but so beautifully proportioned.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
The main reason I learnt to Dive is to do wrecks.......
I've been eyeing up the indiana as my first Dive..... its quite shallow and there's not a lot of it left, but it would be my first dive since qualifying.
Never seen that in the flesh, but I have seen the remains of the Herzogin Cecilie, just around the coast from Salcombe. She really was one for a ship porn thread:
Reputedly she was timed at some insane speed going through The Sound, albeit helped by an ideal wind and a strong tide. Those big windjammers were surprisingly fast - they could shake off a contemporary cargo steamer with a favourable wind - but IIRC Herzogin Cecilie was doing something like 20 knots over the ground.
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A ship porn thread wouldn't be complete without an armoured cruiser or two. Pretty much obsolete by the time World War I broke out and a few came to sticky ends partly as a result, but they were magnificent looking things.
HMS Good Hope, sunk with all hands at Coronel in December 1914.
Kent chased down and sank the German light cruiser Nurnburg at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1915, burning the wardroom furniture because Doveton Sturdee's fleet had had to break off coaling in a hurry when Von Spee was sighted.
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Supine
Newt Member
Fair play, lots of better wrecks to dive in the UK after you've got some experience with that one
M2, The Lucy, James Eagan Layne, Hood, Decotian, Brummer, James Barrie, Hispania, Kyarra, Rondo to name a few
ffsear
Well-Known Member
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
sim667 said:
Pioneering Spirit, please
"The original name created a controversy due to Pieter Schelte Heerema's service in the Wafen-SS"during World War II,
mauvais
on reddit or something
What's the context of this photo?I love this picture.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I like the container ships. They look like a really satisfying game of Tetris.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I didn't know but a bit of gooogling says:
"The salvage tug is trying to get close enough to the tanker Shinyo Sawako in order to bring it under tow."
Apparently after a collision between the freighter and a fishing vessel
Amazing Pictures | Salvage tug connecting to the tanker Shinyo Sawako - amazing picture | Amazing pictures fascinating photos images
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Costa Concordia?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This thread needs more dazzle ships.
Tres Hombres - a mere 35 tonnes and, I expect, quite an expensive way of shipping stuff. But shipping stuff by sail...
A few years ago some goods were shipped between Europe and South America in this:
A typical small trading ketch, Irene, built at Bridgewater in 1907. Going on board this thing is on my 'must do' list. When I was a kid I borrowed a book called Deep-Water Sail from my local library. It was written in the late 1940s by Harold Underhill, one of the generation who chronicled the dying days of the commercial sailing ship. For some reason his write-up of Irene, which he clearly fell in love with, stuck with me. He didn't know if she'd survived the war, but many years later I googled her and found that she had indeed survived and was working as a charter boat in the Caribbean. She caught fire and sank in 2003 and I thought that was the end of that. But no, she was raised, restored again, and is still at work. She is a lovely-looking thing too.
bi0boy
Power User
Navy stealth ship: $190 million to build in 1985, sold for scrap in 2012 for $100,000.
Ah Mr Bond, I've been expecting you.
They have bigger ones now
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
But they don't look like Dougal off the Magic Roundabout so they're not as good.They have bigger ones now
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
that really is the mother ship.
