Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[MartG]

Excellent timelapse of the cruise ship Braemar being extended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QirVr-pEVU4

[ApOrbital]

Very good Mart.

[MartG]

Beautiful atmospheric night shot of James Laing's yard in Sunderland, sometime in 1951



Pic courtesy Sarah Stoner

[MartG]

DUKW hydrofoil, 1957



Just a thought - why isn't this thread stickied like the plane one - I always have to go searching for it

[MartG]

The 90,000 ton Ulyanovsk STOBAR aircraft carrier. It was about half way completed when Ukraine seceded and later scrapped the two work-in-progress Ulyanovsk ships.





Russia has now designed a new class of aircraft carrier in the 100,000 ton range. It'll follow the Kuznetsovs premis of being a large STOBAR carrier rather than using catapults.

[Huntsman]

SS United States in the news.

38 knots!!!

http://gcaptain.com/crystal-cruises-purchases-hist...

[FourWheelDrift]

Huntsman said:

http://gcaptain.com/crystal-cruises-purchases-hist...

Rendering looks terrible.

Hope it doesn't happen, but I do hope it's saved as it is, a museum exhibit to the great transatlantic Blue Riband liners.

[Simpo Two]

IIRC it still holds the Blue Riband.

[MartG]

Quite surprising how much is below the waterline - USS Pennsylvania

[MartG]

Note - be careful when parking newly launched ships - they don't have brakes



Murree, just after her launch from Austin & Pickergill's inSunderland, 18th December 1980. Notice the triangular shaped hole in the big door after she hit it when something went wrong.

Pic credit Fred Gooch

[Huntsman]

MartG said:

Note - be careful when parking newly launched ships - they don't have brakes



Murree, just after her launch from Austin & Pickergill's inSunderland, 18th December 1980. Notice the triangular shaped hole in the big door after she hit it when something went wrong.

Pic credit Fred Gooch

I'd love a tug like that!

[ralphrj]

MartG said:

Note - be careful when parking newly launched ships - they don't have brakes



Murree, just after her launch from Austin & Pickergill's inSunderland, 18th December 1980. Notice the triangular shaped hole in the big door after she hit it when something went wrong.

Pic credit Fred Gooch

A similar thing happened in 2004 when RFA Mounts Bay was launched on the Clyde. It slid across the river into the quayside opposite.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3611709.stm

[rohrl]

Waverley?

[sooperscoop]

MartG said:

Note - be careful when parking newly launched ships - they don't have brakes



Murree, just after her launch from Austin & Pickergill's inSunderland, 18th December 1980. Notice the triangular shaped hole in the big door after she hit it when something went wrong.

Pic credit Fred Gooch

Jesus shipbuilding has moved on so much. Just looking at that, unpainted, tiny plates, barely outfitted. It looks more 1950s than 1980s.

[hidetheelephants]

It's notable particularly as A&P were amongst the most innovative of UK shipbuilders, being early adopters of modular construction, standardised designs and modern workflow layouts for the yard.

[TheRainMaker]

Guess where i was today

HMS Dragon by The Rain Maker, on Flickr

Portsmouth by The Rain Maker, on Flickr

[ThunderSpook]

Did you drive down past the aircraft carrier? Worth a look seeing as you can drive right up next to it.

Edited by ThunderSpook on Sunday 14th August 11:15

[TheRainMaker]

Yep, it's looking very sorry for itself, loads of bits removed, all the radar panels gone etc etc,

Bit sad really

Edited by TheRainMaker on Sunday 14th August 10:34

[MartG]

From left to right, USS Burton Island (AGB-1), USS Atka (AGB-3) and USS Glacier (AGB-4) pushing an iceberg out of the channel near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965.US Navy photo

[MartG]

A ship being recycled into a new ship....

Armilla was a tanker originally launched as Helix from Hawthorn Leslie on the Tyne in 1931.
She was so badly corroded after carrying Benzene for 15+ years, only her stern section and machinery was worth salvaging. Her rusty section was cut off and replaced with this section.

Armilla's new middle and bow section were constructed at Joseph Laing's yard in Sunderland in 1947. This pic shows the new section at Greenwell's No1 Dock in Sunderland after it's launch from Joseph Laing's yard in 1947.
Picture courtesy of Sarah Stoner.