Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

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FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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MartG said:


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
Could almost be HMS Habakkuk.

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Beginning in the early summer of 2001, the USS DRUM was moved from the muddy Mobile Bay waters beside the battleship USS ALABAMA and placed on dry land on a permanent fixture beside the newly constructed Aircraft Pavilion. Volkert & Associates, Inc., an engineering design firm, handled the move. This was done by digging a small canal, flooding the canal, floating the DRUM into the canal with the help of tugboats, and then draining the canal. Then she was placed upon and chained to large her current concrete cradles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Drum_(SS-228)

LimaDelta

6,507 posts

217 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Did you say amazingly cool, or cold?

HMS Endurance 1973. Images from Alamy but taken by my old man.






100 IAN

1,091 posts

161 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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This is PH so how about a Ferrari F50 going down the Grand Canal in Venice.....?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkTaFV6-b0k



Edited by 100 IAN on Tuesday 4th October 20:20

100 IAN

1,091 posts

161 months

Friday 7th October 2016
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Is it a boat or is it a truck? Watch and find out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...



Edited by 100 IAN on Friday 7th October 14:40

Parabola

1,848 posts

196 months

Friday 7th October 2016
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
100 IAN said:
Is it a boat or is it a truck? Watch and find out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...



Edited by 100 IAN on Friday 7th October 14:40
Fugly as fk..... and with all the effort to graft it 'seemlessly together' - to whack a wart of an Air Con unit on the top seems utterly odd !
I love it all!

Parabola

1,848 posts

196 months

Sunday 16th October 2016
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"A new 540 TEU container carrier, featuring a forward accommodation block designed to reduce wind resistance"

Not sure why more ships don't look like this.

http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/179328/spott...

Benni

3,510 posts

210 months

Friday 21st October 2016
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Is this the military version of Yacht A ? Or is it just me who sees similarity in the lines ?


Huntsman

8,028 posts

249 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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tuffer

8,849 posts

266 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
and yet I saw (not news as such) today :



6 super box ships laid up in Loch Striven
That picture says a lot about the current situation in the shipping industry, I am no expert but that cannot be a good sign.

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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hidetheelephants

23,772 posts

192 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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tuffer said:
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
and yet I saw (not news as such) today :



6 super box ships laid up in Loch Striven
That picture says a lot about the current situation in the shipping industry, I am no expert but that cannot be a good sign.
They aren't there; they were laid up in 2009, then reactivated in 2010. The old one went for razor blades and the Maersk 'B' boats went back to hauling boxes.

hidetheelephants

23,772 posts

192 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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I'd have thought the box haulers were having an easier time of it with the low oil price?

DJFish

5,917 posts

262 months

Tuesday 8th November 2016
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hidetheelephants said:
I'd have thought the box haulers were having an easier time of it with the low oil price?
http://gcaptain.com/tag/hanjin/


MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Thursday 24th November 2016
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Half a ship smile



Fore half of Andwi, the lesser known 'Half Crown ship' from John Crown's yard in Sunderland. Due to size limitations of the yard she was launched in two halves, Fore part, 9th January 1954 and her stern section followed, 4th June 1954. The two halves were then welded together in drydock

Hard-Drive

4,076 posts

228 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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The current generation of foiling Open 60s currently doing the Vendee are incredibly impressive...









ThunderSpook

3,571 posts

210 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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There's no people on those boats!

Hard-Drive

4,076 posts

228 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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They are singlehanded. Just one person around the world, and they work from inside the enclosed cockpit.

Imagine just leaving it, on autopilot, hydrofoiling, and attempting to go to sleep...

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Friday 25th November 2016
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
They are - and yet even with a Brit out in the lead, I'm amazed at zero publicity, no thread on PH et al ?
No-one is stopping you from starting a thread you know wink

Flying Phil

1,578 posts

144 months

Saturday 26th November 2016
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Impressive! I had only seen pics of the Americas Cup type of catamarangs up on foils before.