Ship porn

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I thought Andrew Cole was a footballer

 

[platinumsage]

It's half-empty! Don't we need plastic Christmas trees?

Drone captures arrival of largest container ship

The aerial pictures show the Ever Ace coming in to dock at Felixstowe in Suffolk.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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I gather danny la rouge loves a Christmas tree.

 

[danny la rouge]

I gather danny la rouge loves a Christmas tree.

So much so I always put it up myself.

 

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danny la rouge if you are putting Christmas trees up yourself you really do need some serious help.

 

[danny la rouge]

danny la rouge if you are putting Christmas trees up yourself you really do need some serious help.

After the first couple of rows of branches it does need another pair of hands.

 

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After the first couple of rows of branches it does need another pair of hands.

I'm coming North if you need a hand

 

[Chilli.s]

Empress of Britain under construction at John Brown’s yard on the Clyde in 1930

 

[A380]

It's half-empty! Don't we need plastic Christmas trees?

Drone captures arrival of largest container ship

The aerial pictures show the Ever Ace coming in to dock at Felixstowe in Suffolk.

www.bbc.co.uk

Do they do the first run without cargo- just company livery cans to test that all the docks and canals are set up for it?

 

[T & P]

Either that of the ship is scheduled to leave the UK with far more containers than it arrived with. Perhaps we're exporting 10,000 containers of Brexit to the world, seeing what a marvellous success it has been in the UK thus far.

 

[A380]

Either that of the ship is scheduled to leave the UK with far more containers than it arrived with. Perhaps we're exporting 10,000 containers of Brexit to the world, seeing what a marvellous success it has been in the UK thus far.

Full of sovereignty and freedom, and if some posters on here are to be believed, communism.

 

[platinumsage]

I was joking about plastic Christmas trees but seems like it's serious shipping business:

John Lewis charters ships to ensure Christmas stock arrives

The department store chain says it is trying everything to get goods to the UK for the holiday season.

www.bbc.co.uk

Which led me to the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler, the first class of woke US navy ships.

This is USNS Harvey Milk:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is USNS Harvey Milk:

Wonder if that's the first time a naval ship has been named after an out gay man?

Remember many a night getting completely shitfaced in the Harvey Milk Bar at the student union at Leeds uni. Vaguely.

 

[T & P]

Well, not named after any man, but there was this...

 

[petee]

Well, not named after any man, but there was this...

i wondered if this was part of a set of "Titan" ships, so i put in Titan Atlas and got this. it's half a ship.

Ramform Atlas | Marine seismic vessel | PGS

This ultra-high capacity marine seismic acquisition vessel has full survey design flexibility to address any exploration or production imaging challenge

www.pgs.com

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

i wondered if this was part of a set of "Titan" ships, so i put in Titan Atlas and got this. it's half a ship.

Ramform Atlas | Marine seismic vessel | PGS

This ultra-high capacity marine seismic acquisition vessel has full survey design flexibility to address any exploration or production imaging challenge

www.pgs.com

They could convert this in to one of those...

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[pseudonarcissus]

Empress of Britain under construction at John Brown’s yard on the Clyde in 1930
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I worked at that yard on the BLEO HOLM, which I think was the last project undertaken at the Clydebank yard…I remember walking past those buildings

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Either that of the ship is scheduled to leave the UK with far more containers than it arrived with. Perhaps we're exporting 10,000 containers of Brexit to the world, seeing what a marvellous success it has been in the UK thus far.

It also stops at Rotterdam and Hamburg where the majority of the cargo would be offloaded and loaded

 

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[weltweit]

Fishing boats? Uber fishing boats?

 

[existentialist]

Fishing boats? Uber fishing boats?

I don't think Uber are doing fishing boats yet.

It's an Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel. I claim no credit, beyond the 10 seconds it took me to hit up Google

 

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Fishing boats? Uber fishing boats?

Supply ships and a modern deep sea anchor handler Skandi Iceman

 

[StoneRoad]

Look like some of the oil rig support vessels ...

 

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Look like some of the oil rig support vessels ...

Yep. Interesting layouts and shapes though.

 

[StoneRoad]

They look even bigger from a pulling lifeboat !

WR(O&A) Tyne - big ship par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[StoneRoad]

And here's something at Peterhead (also look at the next image to this one)

TiG - little and HUGE par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Tension...

 

[blossie33]

What a rigmarole!
Was someone driving that wheelbase thing?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What a rigmarole!
Was someone driving that wheelbase thing?

Yes, he walks along with a remote control thingy. Amazingly rubbishly designed boatyard though!

 

[David Clapson]

OK Luigi, just slide the newly painted hull down some planks. Nobody will see the scratches.