Ship porn

inforfun

Port porn

Tabnabs

A lot of jobs for American seafarers right there.

Tabnabs

Big ship 1 Port Cranes 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfC2lidXiMY

Look at the speed of that tug (0:10) to show the power and momentum involved here.

Muahahaha

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0402/1128138-ports-coronavirus/

RTE video report of the largest cargo boat ever to dock in Ireland unloaded in Ringaskiddy, Cork last Thursday. The AS Petronia is 210 metres in length and came from Costa Rica full of mangoes and pineapples plus 4 million bananas which is a weeks supply for the country.

Hotblack Desiato

Glad we're stocked up on the essentials :pac:

Muahahaha

Tabnabs wrote: »

Big ship 1 Port Cranes 0

Look at the speed of that tug (0:10) to show the power and momentum involved here.

Anyone know what happened here, was the captain left short a pay cheque or something :pac: Even after he knocks the crane the propeller seems to go into reverse and the ship heads back for a second bite.

Tabnabs

Muahahaha wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0402/1128138-ports-coronavirus/

RTE video report of the largest cargo boat ever to dock in Ireland unloaded in Ringaskiddy, Cork last Thursday. The AS Petronia is 210 metres in length and came from Costa Rica full of mangoes and pineapples plus 4 million bananas which is a weeks supply for the country.

Only around the corner from Whiddy Island, you'd think they'd have better memories.


"Universe Kuwait" loading crude oil at Gulf Oil's storage terminal, Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, Ireland, 1969.

Length of 345,30m and 326,648 tonnes and possibly not even the biggest to go into Whiddy. Any of the big bulkers going to Moneypoint until recently would be of a very large size also.

Muahahaha

ha, RTE and their fake news :pac:

Hotblack Desiato

The Kuwait's slightly older sister ship Universe Ireland was the largest ship in the world when launched, 312,000 DWT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3vCKDSH9R0

Both of them mentioned in this ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFMgt4FeK0

Back when massive oil companies were proud of what they were doing

It all ended in disaster in 1979

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

Hotblack Desiato

Documentary on the salvage operation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFXEU85AyaI

Thargor

I like how they throw the ropes down in a hurry at the end like it was going to go anywhere:

Tabnabs

Inching a big lady into exactly the right spot.

ILikeBoats

Would tanker captain be guiding/instructing the tugs?

Tabnabs

Strictly speaking it is "to captains orders and pilots advice", but it's the pilot coordinating the job with the Captain standing beside him watching carefully.

Tabnabs

The reality of working at sea during the covid19 pandemic. There is no social distancing or working from home for seafarers.

When the pilot is aboard extra precautions must be taken.

Thargor

Was just wondering about that the other day actually.

Ghost Train

Tug boat having an engine fail yesterday, continued on one engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjW8skzvJA0

x64 Timelapse approaching SPM in Bantry Bay

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

Ghost Train

Another timelapse x60speed.
Tanker Atlantic Dawn, last Thurday, disconnecting oil pipe and leaving (just an hour or two before the tanker above arrived)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSzomdxv8Q

inforfun

Regal Princess arriving in Rotterdam to bring back 1000 crew members of several cruise lines.

https://www.heavyliftnews.com/regal-princess-passengers-to-disembark-in-rotterdam/

More pics: https://mediatv.nl/cruiseschip-regal-princess-aangekomen-met-bemanningsleden-in-rotterdam

Tabnabs

The RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with service men returning home after the end of World War 2, 1945.⁣

beauf

Super photo...

secman

Long before Social distancing was ever imagined let alone practiced ..... looks jam packed all the same.

Tabnabs

Like a scene right out of WW2, a large fire at Pier 45 in San Francisco blazes away behind the last unaltered WW2 Liberty ship - SS Jeremiah O’Brien.

Muahahaha

Good article here about how in Russia they display used military equipment at the side of motorways as an old Soviet propaganda tool. They've everything from fighter jets to military jeeps put up on pedestals at the side of the road.

Cant embed but theres a ship there
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/25/fighter-jet-pavement-soviet-roadside-revolution

cnocbui

tricky D

Tabnabs wrote: »

Like a scene right out of WW2, a large fire at Pier 45 in San Francisco blazes away behind the last unaltered WW2 Liberty ship - SS Jeremiah O’Brien.

From another angle to give an idea of how proximate the warehouse i.

cnocbui

This amuses me :

cnocbui

Royal Navy Whitby class frigate, HMS Brighton in 1967. Same ship as in the earlier photo. I got the decade wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Brighton_(F106)

Hotblack Desiato

cnocbui wrote: »

This amuses me :

Is that the royal "yacht" Britannia?

cnocbui

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Is that the royal "yacht" Britannia?

No, it's got the cranes and cargo handling gear of an honest working ship, and the car would be a Rolls Royce, not an Austin(?). :-)