Ship porn

[Lancman]

I love this picture.

If you look at the man on the right of the picture you can see that he's swinging a lead-weighted heaving line just before slinging it up to the people on the bow of the Shino Sawako before passing the main towing hawser. That man was really really earning his pay that day.

 

[Pingu]

the brake guy here wasnt

 

[SikhWarrioR]

This thread needs more dazzle ships.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

I will have to see if I can find a picture of RMS Titanic's sister RMS Olympic in her dazzle scheme for you

 

[bi0boy]

the brake guy here wasnt

Looked like he was trying his best with his cranky thing.

 

[twentythreedom]

Ship porn lovers should have a look at gcaptain.com

 

[Supine]

Lets not fuck around. One of the most complicated machines that humans have ever built. It has bad buoy written all over it

 

[Pingu]

tbh although now outdated to some extent the old battleship, for me, trumps the aircraft carrier

 

[bi0boy]

I love bow shots of military ships under way, they look smaller but like they mean srs business.

 

[twentythreedom]

J class yacht

 

[twentythreedom]

One of the cool things about sailing in the Solent area is seeing warships, container ships, cruise liners etc up close very regularly. I sailed very close by HMS Ocean a while back, 50m away probably, sounded like a jet plane not a ship (gas turbines I presume)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

One of the cool things about sailing in the Solent area is seeing warships, container ships, cruise liners etc up close very regularly. I sailed very close by HMS Ocean a while back, 50m away probably, sounded like a jet plane not a ship (gas turbines I presume)

Saw the Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Solent a few years back, was too big to get in to Portsmouth Harbour, was just sat in the Solent stinking of kerosene.

 

[Roadkill]

I love bow shots of military ships under way, they look smaller but like they mean srs business.

 

[twentythreedom]

Saw the Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Solent a few years back, was too big to get in to Portsmouth Harbour, was just sat in the Solent stinking of kerosene.

The Theodore Roosevelt visited last spring - same, anchored out in the middle of the Solent, stank the place out Looked cool though

 

[Roadkill]

I will have to see if I can find a picture of RMS Titanic's sister RMS Olympic in her dazzle scheme for you

Herewith also the Mauretania:

 

[bi0boy]

Got to have some pics of the most technolgocially significant warship, HMS Dreadnought

 

[Roadkill]

Got to have some pics of the most technolgocially significant warship, HMS Dreadnought

That's debatable! In terms of technological leaps forward, Warrior has a good case for being considered among the most important:

Not that Dreadnought wasn't a mighty impressive ship, of course.

 

[planetgeli]

For anyone interested in container shipping I can recommend Down to the sea in ships by Horatio Clare. Basically he travels across the world in two separate Maersk ships and details the apartheid that still exists in the world of shipping. 25% of the container shipping industry is staffed by Filipinos who have to accept 1/3 of the wages a white man gets for the same job. The conditions they suffer are ridiculous too. He also details a lot of other outrageous stuff that goes on at sea that we never get to hear about. And of course the storms out in the North Atlantic and North Pacific are pretty impressive too. Decent book.

 

[StoneRoad]

Something of a contrast in scale - at Peterhead.


TiG - little and HUGE par StoneRoad2013, on Ipernity

We had watched the big one come into the Harbour of Refuge the previous evening.

 

[Spymaster]

the brake guy here wasnt

I wonder if they took that out of his wages.

 

[Supine]

For anyone interested in container shipping I can recommend Down to the sea in ships by Horatio Clare. Basically he travels across the world in two separate Maersk ships and details the apartheid that still exists in the world of shipping. 25% of the container shipping industry is staffed by Filipinos who have to accept 1/3 of the wages a white man gets for the same job. The conditions they suffer are ridiculous too. He also details a lot of other outrageous stuff that goes on at sea that we never get to hear about. And of course the storms out in the North Atlantic and North Pacific are pretty impressive too. Decent book.

I was in the Philippians in November and spoke to a few people about jobs on ships. They see it as a really good job that brings a lot of money into their households. One bloke has built a house that looks like a big ship in his village. It looked really good but it was basically him showing off about his family riches. People around there earn £2-3 a day working in padi fields so boat work is rather posh for them.

 

[Buckaroo]

Riveting thread

 

[Supine]

An unsung hero of WW2 - The Liberty Ship. A total of 2710 of these bad boys were produced and used to carry cargo for the war.

<can be scuba dived in plymouth, west wales and southern island etc etc>

 

[planetgeli]

I was in the Philippians in November and spoke to a few people about jobs on ships. They see it as a really good job that brings a lot of money into their households. One bloke has built a house that looks like a big ship in his village. It looked really good but it was basically him showing off about his family riches. People around there earn £2-3 a day working in padi fields so boat work is rather posh for them.

Yeah when they go home they are "millionaire for a day". I was in the Philippines too a year ago. You're either rich or destitute there it seems.

 

[Roadkill]

For anyone interested in container shipping I can recommend Down to the sea in ships by Horatio Clare. Basically he travels across the world in two separate Maersk ships and details the apartheid that still exists in the world of shipping. 25% of the container shipping industry is staffed by Filipinos who have to accept 1/3 of the wages a white man gets for the same job. The conditions they suffer are ridiculous too. He also details a lot of other outrageous stuff that goes on at sea that we never get to hear about. And of course the storms out in the North Atlantic and North Pacific are pretty impressive too. Decent book.

It is good, although for my money Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George - published about the same time - is marginally better.

 

[Supine]

I love the internet. A picture of the ship house in the Philippians I drove past!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

here is the Vega

My dad and all my Jersey relatives have pictures of this ship in their houses as it brought essential relief to them during the second world war when food had been cut off for a long time. My dad recalls getting the red cross parcel and how exciting it was for each of the kids.
More information here

 

[Supine]

The British designed a submarine that contained a plane in the conning tower. During testing it flooded and all 60 crew died when it flooded. Having a plane hanger in the conning tower wasn't the best ever plan. Ingenious though.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

If you want a maritime distaster try the "K" class submarines steam powered on the surface no quick crash dive with the "K" class

 

[SikhWarrioR]

That's debatable! In terms of technological leaps forward, Warrior has a good case for being considered among the most important:

Not that Dreadnought wasn't a mighty impressive ship, of course.

Can we stick Brunel's SS Great Britain in the thread of technologically important ships ?? while we are at it