Ship porn

[coley]

I think it looks striking, not sure if I like or hate the way it looks.

Certain I hate everything it stands for though (Motor Yacht A that is not Belfast...)

HMS BELFAST, right a bit, down a bit, FIRE, lovely memories of thon old bugger, had the chance to have the run of her while she was being decommissioned.

 

[Sirena]

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

Dogger you say?

BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four, Why we love the Shipping Forecast

 

[Crispy]

How those things don't capsize is beyond me?

Water is heavy and containers are mostly full of air.

 

[coley]

Water is heavy and containers are mostly full of air.

Aye, but the draught looks small compared to the height and the area exposed to high winds, obviously minds much smarter than mine have it all figured out, but if does look ready to topple over

 

[Crispy]

Also the photo is a bit deceiving. It looks like a "normal" hull shape that tapers gently to the bow and stern but it's really mostly rectangular. Wide and flat. Like a double decker bus.

 

[sim667]

How those things don't capsize is beyond me?

Ballast tanks, no?

 

[A380]

 

[bi0boy]

I never realised ship wrecks were so common. There used to be British ships going down with the loss of crew every day. Sometimes a lot more.

For example on 31st October 1823 the weather must have been a bit shit, because there were 152 British ship wrecks on that one day

 

[Cid]

I never realised ship wrecks were so common. There used to be British ships going down with the loss of crew every day. Sometimes a lot more.

For example on 31st October 1823 the weather must have been a bit shit, because there were 152 British ship wrecks on that one day

Some hints...

Casquets lighthouses - Wikipedia
The climate of London, deduced from meteorological observations, Volume 3
A site of weather data from 1700-1849 (ctrl+f 1823).

The meteorological observations book says that the wind was north-easterly, which would explain why Grimsby and Cleethorpes are quite heavily featured... The east coast would be a lee shore.

Imagine being on the Neptune, last leg of the journey from Rio de Janeiro to Hamburg. Although I suppose you'd anticipate it being a difficult bit.

 

[T & P]

I never realised ship wrecks were so common. There used to be British ships going down with the loss of crew every day. Sometimes a lot more.

For example on 31st October 1823 the weather must have been a bit shit, because there were 152 British ship wrecks on that one day

Your post made me wonder how many shipwrecks there might have been in human history. A quick search reveals that UNESCO estimates the number to be three million

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Here is interesting. Just went for a stroll around the marina. This boat has been docked here for months and I have often wondered. Just met the owner, or captain, or summat - Russian. I don't understand a word of Russian and he doesn't do English, but... it is about 70 years old and One of just Four built (all are surviving). Shit webcam photo. The hull is wood, the rest is 100% aluminium.

 

[StoneRoad]

I never realised ship wrecks were so common. There used to be British ships going down with the loss of crew every day. Sometimes a lot more.

For example on 31st October 1823 the weather must have been a bit shit, because there were 152 British ship wrecks on that one day

Someone told me that there are at least 300 wrecks around the Farne Islands !

This tremendous loss of life was the stimulus for Sir William Hillary to found, in 1824, the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, better known today as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

E2A - the development of the Admiralty Harbours of Refuge (like the one at Peterhead) was also, at least partially, as a result of the realisation that this loss of life should be regarded as unacceptable.

 

[sim667]

Someone told me that there are at least 300 wrecks around the Farne Islands !

This tremendous loss of life was the stimulus for Sir William Hillary to found, in 1824, the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, better known today as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

There's thousands of wrecks around the UK coast, granted a lot of them there's not much left.

 

[StoneRoad]

Oh, dear !
Gibraltar seizes Russian's superyacht over German debt claim - BBC News

 

[oneflewover]

Oh, dear !
Gibraltar seizes Russian's superyacht over German debt claim - BBC News

Probably done on the grounds of good taste

 

[pogofish]

This one is currently up on bricks at the local ship repairer:

The MV Finlaggan - One of the new CalMac ferries with a not to stellar rep for reliability.

 

[tedsplitter]

www.marinetraffic.com is good for a nosey

 

[Chz]

HMS Warspite, perhaps the most decorated ship of all time, refuses to go to the scrapyard and beaches herself on the way there.
Cornwall, Summer 1947.

 

[bi0boy]

RIP Stellar Daisy, hope all crew are recovered

VLOC sinks in the South Atlantic -

 

[bi0boy]

 

[twentythreedom]

Though they weigh as much as 60,000 tons, the massive semi-submersible oil rigs dotting the Gulf of Mexico can still sink when faced with a hurricane's onslaught. And there's only one way to pull the rigs' 7,500 ton decks off the seafloor after such a catastrophe—with America's heaviest-lifting ship, the VB

 

[ice-is-forming]

Well look what i woke up to this morning, just anchored there in the bay!

 

[Lancman]

They did well to put a tripping line on that anchor.

 

[StoneRoad]

Lady and Little M visited Whitehaven for a couple of days (7th May 2017) - getting her into the marina was "interesting" ...

(pics / link to follow, when I've uploaded them to Ipernity)

 

[pogofish]

I saw this ship sail out of the rainy gloom and into a glorious sunny evening south of Aberdeen last night. For a while I'd been seeing it through the murk and thinking that the Orkney/Shetland ferry was going the wrong way!

The MS Berlin - a fine looking "small" cruise ship but I don't think its on a cruise just now as it seems to have spent most of today going round in circles a few miles off Arbroath.

A couple of weeks back it was the Caribbean Princess sailing into the sunset in the Moray Firth after putting out of Invergordon. Even at a few miles distance, that ship was big!

 

[twentythreedom]

One of these was in Weymouth Bay last week meeting a fast RIB that zoomed out from Portland Harbour and dropped or picked up something / someone

They do look quite cool imo

Type 45 destroyer



The gadgets sound pretty hardcore tbf


Sensors and
processing systems:

• SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045)
• S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046)
• Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
• 2 × Raytheon AHRS INS
  (MINS 2)
• 2 × Raytheon I-band Radar
  (Type 1047)
• 1 × Raytheon E/F-band Radar
  (Type 1048)[10]
• Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)[11]
• Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system
• Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)[12]
• AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system [13]
• Seagnat
• Naval Decoy IDS300
• Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

Armament:

• Anti-air missiles:
• • Sea Viper air defence system, with a 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, for mix of up to 48:
  • Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km)
  • Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km)
• Anti-ship missiles:
• • 2 × quad Harpoon launchers[N 2]
• Guns:
• • 1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
  • 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × Miniguns
  • 6 × General purpose machine guns

Aircraft carried:

• 1–2 × Wildcat, armed with:
• • 4 × anti ship missiles, or
  • 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
• or
• 1 × Westland Merlin,[15]armed with:
• • 4 × anti-submarine torpedoes

Aviation facilities:

• Large flight deck
• Enclosed hangar

Nuts

 

[bi0boy]

One of these was in Weymouth Bay last week meeting a fast RIB that zoomed out from Portland Harbour and dropped or picked up something / someone

They do look quite cool imo

Type 45 destroyer

View attachment 109136

The gadgets sound pretty hardcore tbf


Sensors and
processing systems:

• SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045)
• S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046)
• Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
• 2 × Raytheon AHRS INS
  (MINS 2)
• 2 × Raytheon I-band Radar
  (Type 1047)
• 1 × Raytheon E/F-band Radar
  (Type 1048)[10]
• Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)[11]
• Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system
• Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)[12]
• AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system [13]
• Seagnat
• Naval Decoy IDS300
• Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

Armament:

• Anti-air missiles:
• • Sea Viper air defence system, with a 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, for mix of up to 48:
  • Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km)
  • Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km)
• Anti-ship missiles:
• • 2 × quad Harpoon launchers[N 2]
• Guns:
• • 1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
  • 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × Miniguns
  • 6 × General purpose machine guns

Aircraft carried:

• 1–2 × Wildcat, armed with:
• • 4 × anti ship missiles, or
  • 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
• or
• 1 × Westland Merlin,[15]armed with:
• • 4 × anti-submarine torpedoes

Aviation facilities:

• Large flight deck
• Enclosed hangar

Nuts

This is their best feature:

Destroyers will break down if sent to Middle East, admits Royal Navy

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

One of these was in Weymouth Bay last week meeting a fast RIB that zoomed out from Portland Harbour and dropped or picked up something / someone

They do look quite cool imo

Type 45 destroyer

View attachment 109136

The gadgets sound pretty hardcore tbf


Sensors and
processing systems:

• SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045)
• S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046)
• Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System
• 2 × Raytheon AHRS INS
  (MINS 2)
• 2 × Raytheon I-band Radar
  (Type 1047)
• 1 × Raytheon E/F-band Radar
  (Type 1048)[10]
• Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)[11]
• Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system
• Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)[12]
• AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system [13]
• Seagnat
• Naval Decoy IDS300
• Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

Armament:

• Anti-air missiles:
• • Sea Viper air defence system, with a 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, for mix of up to 48:
  • Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km)
  • Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km)
• Anti-ship missiles:
• • 2 × quad Harpoon launchers[N 2]
• Guns:
• • 1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
  • 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × Miniguns
  • 6 × General purpose machine guns

Aircraft carried:

• 1–2 × Wildcat, armed with:
• • 4 × anti ship missiles, or
  • 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
• or
• 1 × Westland Merlin,[15]armed with:
• • 4 × anti-submarine torpedoes

Aviation facilities:

• Large flight deck
• Enclosed hangar

Nuts

No outside cabins with balconies? Worst.Cruise.Ship.Evah.

 

[pogofish]

This is their best feature:

Destroyers will break down if sent to Middle East, admits Royal Navy

TBF, the intercooler that causes all the failures is a Westinghouse/Northrop-Grumman item. The RR/Wartsilla parts of the WR-21 system (turbine/generators) are apparently considered very well designed and otherwise fully reliable.

 

[kebabking]

TBF, the intercooler that causes all the failures is a Westinghouse/Northrop-Grumman item. The RR/Wartsilla parts of the WR-21 system (turbine/generators) are apparently considered very well designed and otherwise fully reliable.

If anyone wants the tedious procurement details, T45 was built with at least half a dozen gambles on really high end tech - the intercooler system is the only one that didn't pay off while the SAMPSON radar and ASTER 30 missile system works far better than anyone thought they would. The intercooler system is being replaced from (iirc) 2018 onwards as the ship's go through refit...