Ship porn

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Ever get the feeling you're being watched...?

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What they call - spreading the load.

GreyEagle

Tabnabs wrote: »

After seven weeks at sea, the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) Western Isles has reached Rotterdam.

How can this ship maintain any stability with a load like this on the deck?

judeboy101

GreyEagle wrote: »

How can this ship maintain any stability with a load like this on the deck?

physics, baby, physics.

Tabnabs

A couple of big boys heading into capital city.

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Cutbacks reduce the size of the US Navy carrier fleet :pac:

stampydmonkey

Tabnabs wrote: »

Cutbacks reduce the size of the US Navy carrier fleet :pac:

What is it?

Peregrine

stampydmonkey wrote: »

What is it?

Lighterage

Tabnabs

stampydmonkey wrote: »

What is it?

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/whatever-floats-your-tank-the-usns-improved-navy-lighterage-system-02251/ explains it pretty well.

Storm 10

Power failure they say was the problem

http://www.myvidster.com/views/video.php?gtype=video&id=93597985&url_title=Ferry_Crashes_Into_A_Port_Wall_In_The_Canary_Islands_New_Video

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Just because you can...

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That time a ship went aground outside your window.

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A quick rinse

Conchir

Yikes...

Thargor

Notice the blue ferry captain in the centre of the screen who doesn't give a sh1t about the festival traffic:

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Show offs...

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RMS Celtic - ocean liner owned by the White Star Line.

Early on 10 December 1928, Celtic became stranded on the Cow and Calf rocks, adjacent to Roches Point as she approached Cobh with more than 200 passengers aboard. The Ballycotton Lifeboat T.P.Hearne 2, along with tugs, a destroyer and local life-saving teams, arrived. Tenders from Cobh disembarked the passengers. Seven thousand tons of cargo were scattered. A salvage team from Cox and Danks was provided to attempt recovery, but several men died after a hold loaded with grain and flooded with seawater was found to have filled with toxic fumes; due to structural failures it was judged the ship could not be moved or salvaged, and was abandoned to the insurance company who declared the ship to be a total loss. Celtic was completely dismantled for scrap by 1933.

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Only the strongest need apply!

Atlantic Dawn

At dry docking with all the wooden supports they have under the hull do they leave these in place for the full dry docking so and as a resuilt as these spots are not painted or do they gradually move and replace each to get the entire hull done?

Mr_A

Sure that's why yer man is holding the ship up, so they can get the bits they missed.

Tabnabs

Like them or loathe them, they are something to behold.

sword1

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

At dry docking with all the wooden supports they have under the hull do they leave these in place for the full dry docking so and as a resuilt as these spots are not painted or do they gradually move and replace each to get the entire hull done?

Leave them in place, there is very little growth down there as it gets so little direct light, you would have some shells but they would be crushed. By the time for the next dock you would not see the places missed the last time

Dravokivich

Tabnabs wrote: »

Like them or loathe them, they are something to behold.

At first glance of the second photo I thought it was a boat that had broken up, before looking at it and noticing what they were. Whats the chances we'll see others designed for the set so they'll be like 1 mega Duplo set?

Tabnabs

If you're going to do Cape Horn, may as well do it properly!

knucklehead6

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Apparently she lost part of her hurricane bow during that transit.

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Another day dawns in the North Sea

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Water it, it should grow back again...

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Join the navy and live life at 45 degrees.

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So many buttons, so many controls!

dogmatix

It's like something out of a sci-fi movie. Pity they have got rid of the traditional ships mahogeny wooden steering wheel.