Ship porn

[pogofish]

In a similar vein but more a barge than a ship as it needs to be moved by towing, here is Russia's floating nuke plant:

The Akademik Lomonosov.

Didn't the US lay-up the last of their Nuclear barges back in the mid/late 1970s? All were converted from old Liberty Ships IIRC?

Here are the Lomonosov's reactors being put in place:

 

[pogofish]

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.

Yup, not just any tug - it was a supertug!

Story here - yes, there is a site called Tugfax - Tugfax: British supertug Lloydsman and here - LLOYDSMAN - Yard No 509 - Salvage Tug - United Towing - Built 1970

 

[Poi E]

I see she had the venerable KaMeWa variable pitched propellers. No doubt superseded by azimuth thrusters. Still see the name Kamewa on fast ferry jets.

 

[twentythreedom]

HMSQE approaching Portsmouth earlier

 

[pseudonarcissus]

HMSQE approaching Portsmouth earlier

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I don't know about pornography, but it's certainly obscene

 

[A380]

I don't know about pornography, but it's certainly obscene

Yeah , it's not like we live on an island with most of our food and energy coming in by sea or anything.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Yeah , it's not like we live on an island with most of our food and energy coming in by sea or anything.

Aircraft carriers are about force projection well away from out little island. They tie up large numbers of escorts, reducing the navy's capability for protecting shipping lanes. We can't even afford to put planes on the dammed things.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Some pics from Navy day:

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Is that in St Petersburg?

 

[Cid]

Is that in St Petersburg?

No, it's some other aquatic Russian city with a massive blue palace.

<cue 'actually it's Vegas'>

 

[sleaterkinney]

Yes, apparently thats the biggest sub in the world, i can't figure out which one it is though.

 

[2hats]

Yes, apparently thats the biggest sub in the world, i can't figure out which one it is though.

Doesn’t look like a Typhoon. Closer to a Kilo/877 class.

 

[2hats]

Yeah , it's not like we live on an island with most of our food and energy coming in by sea or anything.

It’s not like we live on an island from which we could get most of our food and energy.

 

[Poi E]

A good fleet of shallow draft littoral combat craft would suit the UK for defence purposes. And drones.

 

[SpookyFrank]

A good fleet of shallow draft littoral combat craft would suit the UK for defence purposes. And drones.

I'll put you down for another four dozen aircraft carriers with no planes on them.

 

[Cid]

Submersible drone carriers.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Doesn’t look like a Typhoon. Closer to a Kilo/877 class.

It looks more like it, maybe the channel wasn't deep enough for the big ones.

 

[A380]

A good fleet of shallow draft littoral combat craft would suit the UK for defence purposes. And drones.

But how would we destabilise other countries with no real plan for any re-construction phase then?

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Radio Caroline ship was recently added to the National Historic Ships Register, and this beautiful photo of the Ross Revenge at anchor on a very still River Blackwater in Essex has been shortlisted for this year's National Historic Ships photography competition, the full short-list can be viewed here: Shortlisted Images 2017 · What we can do for you · National Historic Ships UK

A photograph of our radio-ship Ross Revenge has been shortlist in this year's National Historic Ships Photography Competition.

The picture was taken on the River Blackwater by Caroline supporter Colm O'Laoi. Colm is a skipper with the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority and passes our radio-ship as part of his patrol duties.

And, here's a couple from better days, when the Ross was still broadcasting three different radio stations at the same time from international waters.

That 300ft mast was damaged 30-years ago during the Great Storm of 1987, and came down a few weeks later.

ETA: I had a tour of the Ross some years ago, when she was in Tilbury Docks.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I remember that I was listening to Radio Caroline broadcasting from the Mi Amigo when it ran aground and sank back in 1980

That was a sad ending to a classic vessel.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Some more classic pirate radio ship porn.

From the 1960s, Radio London's M.V. Galaxy...

From the early 1970s, Radio Northsea International's M.V. Mebo 2...

And, for anyone that remembers Laser 558 from the early 1980s, the M.V. Communicator...

 

[twentythreedom]

Oil rig retrieval vessel

 

[cupid_stunt]

There's a sub-set to 'pirate radio ship porn', entitled - Oh, fuck, we're on the beach...

A long tradition, started by Belgium's Radio Antwerpen in 1962...

Radio Caroline on Frinton beach in 1966, ironically the year transistor radios were banned from the beach!

New Zealand's Radio Hauraki in 1968.

Holland's Capital Radio in 1970.

Holand's Radio Veronica in 1973.

 

[cupid_stunt]

This ship grow legs when it arrived off Worthing to install the new wind farm...

 

[twentythreedom]

That ^^ was in Portland Harbour for a couple of days about two weeks ago

Here's another awesome floating crane

 

[cupid_stunt]

That ^^ was in Portland Harbour for a couple of days about two weeks ago

I would love to see it close-up, it was cool seeing it at work earlier this year, aided by a pair of binoculars, whilst enjoying a few beers at the end of the pier, but it was about 7-8 miles out.

The wind farm is due to be completed early next year, and the guy that runs the Southern Pavilion on the pier is planning to organise boat trips out there next year, which I am looking forward to, although that beast will be well gone by then.

 

[Mumbles274]

I remember laser 558... Can hear the jingle in my head now!

 

[twentythreedom]

The Sea Cadets were in Weymouth last two days on T/S Royalist



This old wood-built 'Gentleman's Schooner' was in too. Fucking beautiful, properly sailed too by the looks of it

 

[cupid_stunt]

I remember laser 558... Can hear the jingle in my head now!

Remember when the blockade started? The DTI hired a survey ship to spy on them & who were illegally supplying them, so they reacted by creating a 'group' called the Moronic Surveyers & releasing a single - I Spy for the DTI

 

[peterkro]

There's a sub-set to 'pirate radio ship porn', entitled - Oh, fuck, we're on the beach...

A long tradition, started by Belgium's Radio Antwerpen in 1962...

Radio Caroline on Frinton beach in 1966, ironically the year transistor radios were banned from the beach!

New Zealand's Radio Hauraki in 1968.

Holland's Capital Radio in 1970.

Holand's Radio Veronica in 1973.

The Radio Hauraki ship is the Tiri it was quickly replaced by the Kapuni (rechristened Tiri 2 ) which also ran aground twice.