Ship porn

Cookie_Monster

Well you could find and post something...


Here's HMNZS Canterbury providing earthquake relief off Kaikoura in the wake of the 7.8 quake last week

Umbra

Look at this, beast of a yoke

dball

dogmatix

The SS United States - one of loveliest liners ever built. Unlike the bland and bloated yokes passing as cruise liners these days.

dogmatix

And as she looks today...

dogmatix

Another liner - the gorgeous Normandie from the 1930's. They really don't make 'em like this anymore...

dball

great documentary about the HMHS britannic on the beeb last night: A sister ship of the titanic and guess what happened her

Shannon757

Sank?

Cookie_Monster

Shannon757 wrote: »

Sank?

largest ship sunk during the (1st world) war.

galwaytt

...on Who Do You Think You Are last night there was a great segment about one of Amada Holden's forebearers and his experience on the RMS Lancastria.

The what ?Exactly, that's what I thought too. Somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 lost their lives when it sank, on 17th June 1940. More than Titanic & Lustinia combined.......

I'd never heard of it before.............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04hjbdc

Tabnabs

Dutch award winning high-tech fishing boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC4rbIw5044

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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits the Mediterranean Sea with French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle.

dogmatix

Looking at the above photo's the french ship has it's bridge set far forward while the US ship bridge is closer to the stern then the bow. Is there a particular reason for this for the french bridge?

roundymac

dogmatix wrote: »

Looking at the above photo's the french ship has it's bridge set far forward while the US ship bridge is closer to the stern then the bow. Is there a particular reason for this for the french bridge?

As we're on the question of bridges why have the new RN Carrier's two bridge islands?

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roundymac wrote: »

As we're on the question of bridges why have the new RN Carrier's two bridge islands?

Can't answer the question about location, but as for why the two on the Queen Elizabeth Class:

Advantages of the two island configuration on the Royal Navy carriers

Instead of a traditional single island, a current ship design has two smaller islands. The forward island is for ship control functions and the aft (FLYCO) island is for flying control.

Advantages of the two island configuration are increased flight deck area, reduced air turbulence over the flight deck and increased flexibility of space allocation in the lower decks. The flight control centre in the aft island is in the optimum position for control of the critical aircraft approach and deck landings.

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/cvf/

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A big lump of steel right there!

Purpose built and delivered from the COMEC shipyard in Guangzhou, the m/v Xin Guang Hua is the largest of the COSCO semi-submersible fleet and second largest semi-submersible vessel in the world. She features an unobstructed deck space of up to 211m by 68m and is fully redundant including industry leading DP2 systems. The m/v Xin Guang Hua has already secured multiple contracts including Shell’s Appomattox hull, which will be transported from South Korea to Ingleside, Texas in 2017.

Captain Han Guo Min, CEO of COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co. Ltd in Guangzhou, states that “despite an overall weak market due primarily to low oil prices, COSCO is encouraged by the reception this vessel has received by the market”.

The m/v Xin Guang Hua is a market-changing vessel that is large enough to transport fully integrated offshore floating production units weighing up to 85,000 tons. COSCO Heavy Transport, with locations in Houston and Rotterdam, is responsible for the marketing, project management, and engineering for COSCO’s semi-submersible fleet.

https://coscoht.com/cosco-shipping-specialized-carriers-co-ltd-taken-delivery-98000-dwt-xin-guang-hua/

dogmatix

Another beauty from the golden age of the ocean liner (to be honest, right at the end of the golden age as the transatlantic airplane was starting to inflict damage on the ocean liner by the time she started her service).

Beautiful lines, perfect proportions, a credit to the architects who designed her.

I was privileged to see her moored just offshore at Bar Harbour, Maine in 2000.

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SS Leviathan getting help from a gaggle of tugs (and the inside fellow getting squashed while at it!)



And another photo with things a bit more orderly

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Entering the port of Seattle, what a backdrop!



The Manoa on a regular run out of the Hawaiian Islands

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HNLMS Evertsen on patrol off the Horn of Africa, as part of NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield.

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Life in the northern seas.

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Siem Maragogi being used to deliver a buoy to the Skandi Urca. If you look carefully you can see the little yellow buoy being hoisted with quite a small crane. Nerves of steel and a lot of skill to keep both ships safe in these circumstances.

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For the season that's in it, happy Christmas to all seafarers, especially those working at sea this Christmas.

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January in the North Sea

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When your ship is too big (eg. too deep) to get into port then the godawful operation of 'lightering' has to take place. "Mother ship" normally anchors (or slow steams, even worse) and a smaller "daughter craft" comes alongside to take part of the cargo. Hard work and absolutely no chance of shore leave. Shoreside people (pilots, cargo surveyors, general busybodies etc.) will arrive by launch or by helicopter, thereby putting extra work as you have to have crew standing by for emergencies, just a cluster fcuk of things that can go wrong.

Here's an example between MV Rainbow Quest & MV Liberty Eagle off Chittagong (India, a bit of a ****hole for any bulk cargo)


All those hoses that have to be manually handled into place


The noise and heat from those engines must be absolutely rotten.


Welcome to hell; heat, noise and dust. Guess who has to clean those decks after cargo ops are finished!

Utah

Tabnabs wrote: »

Here's an example between MV Rainbow Quest & MV Liberty Eagle

They don't look hugely different in size!

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Utah wrote: »

They don't look hugely different in size!

Deceptively similar, but just over 17,000 tonnes in the difference.

loyatemu

what's the cargo there?

Tabnabs

Not entirely sure, I've never seen a grain cargo up close, but don't reckon it's that (although quantities would be about right). Think it might be some sort of fertilizer as I've carried that and it was similar.

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If you're in any way prone to nausea, don't watch this video! :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0QIM6FSnBc