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[Speculatore]

MartG said:

I served on there from early '76' until de-commissioned in '79' then on to Invincible in 1980 for 6 years. Finished my sea-time on Illustrious in 97.

The ARK was a great first ship with 14 Phantoms, 11 Buccaneers, 6 Sea-Kings, 4 Gannets and 2 Wessex. Our 'Air Wing' on Invincible was 6 x Harriers although we squeezed a few more on for the Falklands War.

[MartG]

Speculatore said:

I served on there from early '76' until de-commissioned in '79' then on to Invincible in 1980 for 6 years. Finished my sea-time on Illustrious in 97.

The ARK was a great first ship with 14 Phantoms, 11 Buccaneers, 6 Sea-Kings, 4 Gannets and 2 Wessex. Our 'Air Wing' on Invincible was 6 x Harriers although we squeezed a few more on for the Falklands War.

[WF36]

Ayahuasca said:

3 outboards? 900 hp?

Meh.

How about 4 outboards and 1000 hp !



Go-fast confiscated from narcos in Panama and now used by the cops to catch narcos. Apparently does well over 60 knots.

4? MEH. What about 5! Also ex narcos in Portugal.

[Munter]

These boats raise an interesting question in my head. How do you choose a propeller for such a setup. Shirley a propeller designed for a single engine will be designed to run at a certain range of speed through the water. But with the speed increased to warp10 by having lots of thrust from multiple engines do things not get inefficient?

[FourWheelDrift]

Amateurs,

Miss America X with 4x 1,600hp supercharged Packhard engines capable of 109 knots




That's how you run drugs

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FourWheelDrift said:

Amateurs,

Miss America X with 4x 1,600hp supercharged Packhard engines capable of 109 knots




That's how you run drugs

What was the documentary/film about the races?

[FourWheelDrift]

hashtag said:

What was the documentary/film about the races?

Channel 4 documentary "Speed Machines: The Speed boat Kings" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMBW82mPew

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FourWheelDrift said:

hashtag said:

What was the documentary/film about the races?

Channel 4 documentary "Speed Machines: The Speed boat Kings" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMBW82mPew

Thanks

[MartG]

Two Queen Elizabeths

[Art0ir]

MartG said:

Looks like the last two are both in Valetta harbour

Indeed, the WW2 museum there is spectacular.

[Some Guy]

WF36 said:

4? MEH. What about 5! Also ex narcos in Portugal.

5? MEH. What about 8!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djlhXlUUSsk

[MartG]

Some interesting ones here of USS Fitzgerald in drydock

https://news.usni.org/2017/07/12/new-dry-dock-phot...

[MartG]

[gwm]

Munter said:

These boats raise an interesting question in my head. How do you choose a propeller for such a setup. Shirley a propeller designed for a single engine will be designed to run at a certain range of speed through the water. But with the speed increased to warp10 by having lots of thrust from multiple engines do things not get inefficient?

Are you referring to cavitation? Your idea being that the disturbance caused by the other props causes less water to flow over the surrounding propellers?

Hull shape and propeller design can negate some of this but you are correct in that propeller efficiency is designed for a certain speed and would suffer outside this window.

[MartG]

HMS Hermes

[NDA]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Ooops?

[hidetheelephants]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

14 knots of Ooops apparently ! Hell of a lot of inertia.

The 366-meter CSCL Jupiter ran aground at about 9:50 local near Bath, Netherlands shortly after departing from the port of Antwerp headed for Hamburg, Germany. The Antwerp Port Authority said the grounding resulted in the suspension of all shipping traffic to and from the port.


Did you not see this earlier in the week : Antwerp.

http://gcaptain.com/containership-cscl-jupiter-har...

From the AIS data it doesn't appear to try to make the turn at all, so either the pilot had a stroke or there was a steering failure.

[MartG]

hidetheelephants said:

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

14 knots of Ooops apparently ! Hell of a lot of inertia.

The 366-meter CSCL Jupiter ran aground at about 9:50 local near Bath, Netherlands shortly after departing from the port of Antwerp headed for Hamburg, Germany. The Antwerp Port Authority said the grounding resulted in the suspension of all shipping traffic to and from the port.


Did you not see this earlier in the week : Antwerp.

http://gcaptain.com/containership-cscl-jupiter-har...

From the AIS data it doesn't appear to try to make the turn at all, so either the pilot had a stroke or there was a steering failure.

I wonder how big the insurance claim will be for closing the port until it could be shifted :/

[TheRainMaker]

How do you shift something like that though?

I guessing the tide was in when it happened.

[MartG]

Animation of the recovery is here

http://gcaptain.com/watch-ais-animation-shows-cscl...