Ship porn

[Poi E]

Love tugs. When I was living in the NL got to sail on a salvage tug. Fast and furious and crewed by softly spoken tough-as-nails crew.

Used to go out on tugs in NZ to meet foreign vessels as Dad's mate was a harbour master. Great days as a lad. Engine room was the best. Always is on a ship.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

HMS QE on the move today

She's maneuvering with AIS on:

MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic

 

[bi0boy]

Oops



Ships collide in Dover Straits: Seafrontier and Huayang Endeavour hit each other as coastguard and lifeboats called out

 

[not-bono-ever]

Fairmount Alpine super tug- 13500 bhp of pulling power.

 

[A380]

 

[Cid]

Had no idea Greenpeace had gone for sails... I mean I suppose it's a pretty obvious route, but fair play. They say that's a 55m mast though... er... 18 stories. 55ft surely?

 

[2hats]

The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is due to rock up in the Solent at the weekend. Will probably be anchored around Spithead outside of Portsmouth.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is due to rock up in the Solent at the weekend. Will probably be anchored around Spithead outside of Portsmouth.

Saw the Dwight D Eisenhower there some years ago, sailed up to it and the stink of jet fuel made me want to vom. If these ships are too large to get in to Portsmouth Harbour, how will the Queen Elizhbeth get in, or is that much smaller?

 

[twentythreedom]

Saw the Dwight D Eisenhower there some years ago, sailed up to it and the stink of jet fuel made me want to vom. If these ships are too large to get in to Portsmouth Harbour, how will the Queen Elizhbeth get in, or is that much smaller?

They are smaller. Loads of dredging has been done too.

 

[2hats]

Saw the Dwight D Eisenhower there some years ago, sailed up to it and the stink of jet fuel made me want to vom. If these ships are too large to get in to Portsmouth Harbour, how will the Queen Elizhbeth get in, or is that much smaller?

The draught is about the same (though Nimitz are slightly longer, wider overall). The DIO have been dredging the harbour and approaches the last few months:

and extending/refitting the jetty that will be used.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hence the WW2 bombs that keep coming to light?

 

[2hats]

Hence the WW2 bombs that keep coming to light?

Indeed. Bombs, torpedoes.

 

[2hats]

Now expected on the 27th.

 

[A380]

Flower class corvettes, I got into a Google prevarication over these at the weekend.

Small and slow. But loads were built for the battle of the Atlantic. Also, do you wonder if you had be born in 191o something*, you could actually have ended up commanding one (As RNVR people did) unlike bigger ships of the time?

These are Australian versions, I liked the photos.

*If you had a penis.

 

[2hats]

The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is due to rock up in the Solent at the weekend. Will probably be anchored around Spithead outside of Portsmouth.

Arrived on the morning tide today.

Occasionally visible on this live stream. Leaves early next week.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Ars has a nice article on the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cargo ship.

Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship

 

[bi0boy]

Ars has a nice article on the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cargo ship.

Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship

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I notice they said only Russia is still operating nuclear merchant ships.

Here is Sevmorput. Was sitting for years waiting to be broken up but had a massive refurb and re-entered service last year

 

[bi0boy]

The first nuclear powered ice breaker, Lenin, meets the first ice breaker, the Imperial Russian ship Yermak, built 1898 in Newcastle.

 

[bi0boy]

Yermak's launch:



On the ice:

 

[bi0boy]

nuclear-powered Rossiya - love the orange



It's sister Arktika:

 

[bi0boy]

The Hijacking of a $100 Million Supertanker

 

[davesgcr]

The German sinking of the esteemed "Carpathia" always bothers me , but then she would have probably gone for scrap in the 1930's or so anyway.

 

[oneflewover]

Ars has a nice article on the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cargo ship.

Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship

Love this button for when things go wrong

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Oops

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Ships collide in Dover Straits: Seafrontier and Huayang Endeavour hit each other as coastguard and lifeboats called out

I'll be making my second visit to this one on Monday in the repair yard, it's a bit of a mess but fortunately no one was hurt.

 

[pocketscience]

The Hijacking of a $100 Million Supertanker

Fascinating. Like a JG Ballard novel.

 

[Poi E]

Ars has a nice article on the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cargo ship.

Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship

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Nice tour here, too, in all its mid-century glory

Atomic Aesthetic: NS SAVANNAH, Part One

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[1927]

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Are they off on hols to North Korea?

 

[1927]

Love tugs. When I was living in the NL got to sail on a salvage tug. Fast and furious and crewed by softly spoken tough-as-nails crew.

Used to go out on tugs in NZ to meet foreign vessels as Dad's mate was a harbour master. Great days as a lad. Engine room was the best. Always is on a ship.

I remember as a kid the tug Lloydsman had something of a celebrity status, as far as boats can be celebs, but cant remember why?

eta: googled and it was on duty off Iceland in the Cod Wars.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I notice they said only Russia is still operating nuclear merchant ships.

Here is Sevmorput. Was sitting for years waiting to be broken up but had a massive refurb and re-entered service last year

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Lovely

Looking on Cruisemapper and there are 4 icbreakers on duty off Murmansk today




Sevmorput
Vladivostok
Vaygach
Yamal