Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

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Marty63

2,347 posts

173 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Seen this on the Tyne today

Massive.



Donald Duckling - Panama

eldar

21,614 posts

195 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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BullyB

2,344 posts

246 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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eldar said:
The mission to seamen do a good job!

PedroB

494 posts

131 months

Monday 13th January 2014
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Stevedore

20 posts

122 months

Tuesday 14th January 2014
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As an update

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25703763

The vessel is being moved across the river to the old McNulty's yard tomorrow for further lying up.

The reason that it is such a monster isn't due to its GWT more the volume that it's cargo takes. If anyone wants boring to death let me know wink

MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th September 2014
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gwm

2,390 posts

143 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Olf

11,974 posts

217 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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MartG said:
They don't make torpedoes like that any more.

MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Olf said:
MartG said:
They don't make torpedoes like that any more.
laugh

MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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Quattromaster

2,904 posts

203 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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eldar said:
Seems it's been sold and set sail today after 11 months moored in the Tyne.

MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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U776 entering the South Docks in Sunderland in July 1945. The surrendered German U Boat was on a tour up the South and East coast from Weymouth to the Shetlands before she was sunk off the coast of Northern Ireland in deep water along with 155 other U Boats as part of Operation Deadlight.
U1023 also toured up the West coast before having the same fate. They were shown to the public, who could have a unique opportunity to inspect them and make donations to the King George’s Fund for Sailors, a charity set up after the devastation of the First World War to help people affected by the war at sea.

4lf4-155

700 posts

242 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Not a pic but a video showing how much a container ship flexes in high seas..... Spoiler it's enough to make me go eek

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2837563/Wa...

Huntsman

8,028 posts

249 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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MartG said:
U776 entering the South Docks in Sunderland in July 1945. The surrendered German U Boat was on a tour up the South and East coast from Weymouth to the Shetlands before she was sunk off the coast of Northern Ireland in deep water along with 155 other U Boats as part of Operation Deadlight.
U1023 also toured up the West coast before having the same fate. They were shown to the public, who could have a unique opportunity to inspect them and make donations to the King George’s Fund for Sailors, a charity set up after the devastation of the First World War to help people affected by the war at sea.
Fascinating, I had never heard of Operation Deadlight.

MartG

20,626 posts

203 months

Steve_D

13,737 posts

257 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Is it missing something in those pictures?
I'm not seeing a crane I would rate at 48000 tonnes.
I assume that will be fitted later.

Steve

Steve_D

13,737 posts

257 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Thanks for the link.
The photo gallery has a number of CAD models of it both sinking at the front to lift a rig but also has a crane/tilt mechanisem on the stern.
As I guessed none of that has been fitted yet.

Steve

hidetheelephants

23,778 posts

192 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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I guess the cloggies don't trust the koreans to get the fiddly bits right, so they're doing the crane/winch install themselves.

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

197 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Type 212. Possibly the best all-round sub in the world at the moment.