Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Just needs a little roll on pontoon and you could tow that mini on the water too
Ship porn
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Also oldest commissioned warship afloat. For some reason her replica canons are based on British ones with the Royal Coat of arms, which is a bit odd.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
According to legend, while sailing in the Med in the 1960s, the 80,000-ton Forrestal-class supercarrier USS Independence, on a deployment with the Sixth Fleet duty in support of President John F. Kennedy’s firm stand on the newly-established Berlin Wall, came across a strange tall ship at sea. The carrier flashed the vessel, Vespucci, with the light signal asking, “Who are you?” The answer, “Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy,” came back. Independence was said to have replied, “You are the most beautiful ship in the world.”
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Warship Wednesday, June 24, 2020: ‘You are the most beautiful ship in the world’
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their o…
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“The brits leaving with most of the danish fleet after the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807. This lead to the planting of a huge amount of oak trees to rebuild the fleet. In 2003 danish forester Lars Toksvig wrote a letter to the ministry of defence: Dear War Minister, the oaks requested are ready
(painting by Christian Mølsted)”
David Clapson
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Those big sailing ships must have had a tough time manoeuvring in a crowded harbours. How did they do it? I'd love to time travel back and watch. It must have taken hours to get on or off a berth.
weltweit
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They could launch their launches and tow the ship with oar power.
David Clapson
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Are their any good written accounts?
weltweit
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As well as launches to tow I think they could use the sails to balence each other to kind of hover.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If you go to Bucklers Hard you can see where they made the ships and launched them in to the Beaulieu River. To get from there to the sea is about a mile and all along the river there are still solid posts where the ships would tie up to, the other end wound around a capstan which is turned and the ship dragged along, then a rowing boat would move the ropes to the next posts and so on. Would have taken ages. Then they got to the Solent and if the wind didn't blow they went nowhere...
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
The network of capstans that allowed ships here to be roped into the various docks was complete until just a few years ago:
Some have since been removed, whilst others now lie in the secured zones that you can no longer get access to and a couple of the outer ones still sit at the end of the older breakwaters, again where ordinary people are rarely allowed to go these days.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
"Warping" a tall ship or a warship off her berth must have been very hard work, even with tide and wind in your favour.
There are quite a few accounts within Patrick O'Brian's work, as well as CS Forrester, and Alexander Kent [Aubrey, Hornblower and Bolithio, respectively].
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There are capstans and bollards [or remains] in Whitehaven that were in use until fairly recently ie before it became a leisure marina. If I've got the right image, this is near to the landing stage for the cattle [?] imported from Ireland.
whn - west pier capstan par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
There are quite a few accounts within Patrick O'Brian's work, as well as CS Forrester, and Alexander Kent [Aubrey, Hornblower and Bolithio, respectively].
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There are capstans and bollards [or remains] in Whitehaven that were in use until fairly recently ie before it became a leisure marina. If I've got the right image, this is near to the landing stage for the cattle [?] imported from Ireland.
whn - west pier capstan par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Is that your photo pogofish, cos i wanna pinch it
Some have since been removed, whilst others now lie in the secured zones that you can no longer get access to and a couple of the outer ones still sit at the end of the older breakwaters, again where ordinary people are rarely allowed to go these days.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
No, its from a quick Google. That's at Pocra Quay by Fittie, one of the oldest surviving quays on the harbour but now behind the fence where you only get to on the occasional open day/historic walk. For a few years after the fence went-up, the pilot boats were based there and the Pilots would also let you out to it when they were about but security is much tighter now.
When I was young and you could still go there with ease, that capstan was notable because it could still be turned by hand. Most of the others had rusted solid.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Thats on my list too
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
And now on mine. Not heard of it before.
