Ship porn

[Roadkill]

While I agree those American ones are fugly, I do think a decent schooner is more pleasant to look at than too much square-rigging:

I like a big square-rigger, personally, but I'm certainly not averse to a topsail schooner or two, of which William Ashburner is as good an example as any:

 

[teuchter]

Ships that do strange things

What's it for?

 

[oneflewover]

^^A stable base when working on the sea bed

 

[Bakunin]

Battleship Bismarck:

 

[pseudonarcissus]

What's it for?

planting offshore windmills

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Costa Concordia?

yes, that's the one. It's being recycled in Genoa at the moment, they have removed some of the upper decks and recently removed one of the sponsons (the big boxes used to provide buoyancy for the refloating)

 

[The Boy]

Seems like i'm spamming but this is now my favourite video on the internetz

That's pretty cool. the speed of it shows how much they change direction and all the subtle changes that i always seem to miss irl. I also love that around the 1m44 mark another boat cuts them up - boat drivers can be as big a bunch of nobbers as other drivers .

Also, I'm sure there's a boat at the end there called Seamullet. This amused me.

 

[twentythreedom]

The coolest ships of all, in terms of pure power, manoeuvrability, and looking generally awesome are tug boats

 

[bi0boy]

The USS Cyclops left Barbados 98 years ago today with 306 people on board and was never seen again

 

[Roadkill]

The coolest ships of all, in terms of pure power, manoeuvrability, and looking generally awesome are tug boats

Again, I like mine a bit more old-school.

Lowestoft tug towing trawlers out to sea.

 

[twentythreedom]

Check this motherfucker out - icebreaker ocean-going tug

 

[bi0boy]

The coolest ships of all, in terms of pure power, manoeuvrability, and looking generally awesome are tug boats

That's a boat not a ship

 

[bi0boy]

This tug boat wants to be a ship:

Articulated tug barge

 

[twentythreedom]

That's a boat not a ship

Depends who you ask

 

[StoneRoad]

this tug is "Ugie Runner"
and the "tow bar" is around and under the bridge windows, rather than a traditional mooring bit ...


TiG - Ugie Runner par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[Roadkill]

On a very different note, a Thames barge:

They're remarkable things - even a big one could be handled by just two blokes, which is perhaps partly why the last one wasn't retired until 1970.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

When does a boat become a ship? Is there a technical definition?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

When does a boat become a ship? Is there a technical definition?

In the Royal Navy ships go on top and boats go below the water. I always say boat when talking to Naval bods about their ships. Also always lower the ensign whenever I see one, they fucking love running all the way to the stern to lower and raise theirs back, fucking love it.

 

[oneflewover]

A boat can be carried on a ship

 

[oneflewover]

Travelling by the paddle steamers across the Humber brings back very fond memories. The engine room open for viewing even in to the boiler house. The windows to the paddles allowed you watch the water being tortured. The smells, the motion of the cranks and timing gear so evocative, I can nearly smell it whilst typing.

 

[Spymaster]

That ship is today, a bar and restaurant on the Thames in Central London.

 

[Sirena]

 

[bi0boy]

Cable ships

This one recovered Air France AF447 wreckage:

This one just looks cool

 

[bi0boy]

Massive container ship:

 

[bi0boy]

The Vasa, sailed 1 mile and then it sank:

 

[Bakunin]

Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma before the Battle of Midway:

And after an unfortunate encounter with American carrier planes:

 

[twentythreedom]

On a very different note, a Thames barge:

They're remarkable things - even a big one could be handled by just two blokes, which is perhaps partly why the last one wasn't retired until 1970.

 

[oneflewover]

^ and her partner is at Hartlepool

 

[twentythreedom]

When does a boat become a ship? Is there a technical definition?

Ship = ocean going is the basic difference.

Eg my 33ft yacht is on the "Small Ships Register" - she is technically a ship.

Google it, there's all kinds of conflicting opinions and definitions

 

[Bakunin]

Ship = ocean going is the basic difference.

Eg my 33ft yacht is on the "Small Ships Register" - she is technically a ship.

Google it, there's all kinds of conflicting opinions and definitions

Although trawlers are often bigger, yet still referred to by trawler crews as boats.