Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[FourWheelDrift]

A good example of size, HMS Ark Royal (R09) alongside USS Nimitz, Norfolk Virginia 1978.

click below for larger image.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Heh, that does put things into perspective, considering that the old Ark Royal was considered to be a 'proper' sized carrier.

Just one thing, though - why so much wasted deck space on the Merkin carriers? - what do they do with it and why do they need it?

[Shar2]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Heh, that does put things into perspective, considering that the old Ark Royal was considered to be a 'proper' sized carrier.

Just one thing, though - why so much wasted deck space on the Merkin carriers? - what do they do with it and why do they need it?

Parking their aircraft of course. With a full warload they can't get them all down below, so they have the large deck parks, still allowing full ops to take place.

[ninja-lewis]

Shar2 said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Heh, that does put things into perspective, considering that the old Ark Royal was considered to be a 'proper' sized carrier.

Just one thing, though - why so much wasted deck space on the Merkin carriers? - what do they do with it and why do they need it?

Parking their aircraft of course. With a full warload they can't get them all down below, so they have the large deck parks, still allowing full ops to take place.

Also means they can carry out recovery and launch operations at the same time as the bow catapults don't foul the landing zone. Whereas on Ark Royal (and CVF in it's CATOBAR design), the deck isn't big enough to prevent overlap.

[Komier]

Ship I'm currently sat on at the moment

West Navigator. Oil tanker converted into a drillship. Pretty cool I think =)

[Battenburg Bob]

You're actually secretly searching for sunken Soviet submarines aren't you!

http://www.espionageinfo.com/Fo-Gs/Glomar-Explorer...

[andy97]

Battenburg Bob said:

You're actually secretly searching for sunken Soviet submarines aren't you!

http://www.espionageinfo.com/Fo-Gs/Glomar-Explorer...

You should read the book "Blind Man's Buff" - the story of US (and UK) Submarine espionage.

[rhinochopig]

andy97 said:

Battenburg Bob said:

You're actually secretly searching for sunken Soviet submarines aren't you!

http://www.espionageinfo.com/Fo-Gs/Glomar-Explorer...

You should read the book "Blind Man's Buff" - the story of US (and UK) Submarine espionage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NR-1_Deep_Submergence...

[AshVX220]

swanny71 said:

Ex-Chief MEA

Edited by swanny71 on Saturday 2nd May 13:15

Ex-Golly, now CCombat Systems Engineer for BAE working on QE Class.

[Invisible man]

watch 'Rigs, Trawlers, Rescue' on Disco for some impressive rig support vessels and a 9 million pound, state of the art trawler

[Nickyboy]

This one?> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Looks like the latter end of a bulk crude carrier

[Taffer]

Nickyboy said:

This one?> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

Looks like the latter end of a bulk crude carrier

Aft end, shippers, aft end..........

I saw a chopped up tanker being towed in the Arabian Gulf last year. Looks very odd, as your brain keeps trying to add in the 'missing piece' of the tanker.

Not as odd as looking through NVGs and seeing a Dockwise semi-sub carrying a huge rig coming out of the mist. First you see the 300ft high crane lights long before seeing any of the ship's nav lights.

Didn't get any photos (at night, and watchkeepers on frigates aren't impressed by flash photography), but it did look something like this:

Edited by Taffer on Wednesday 6th May 23:40

[XJSJohn]

there is two dockwise ships at anchor in Singapore at the moment. I guess waiting to pick up rigs from Kepple.

[SkinnyBoy]

Ruskie of course

[tuffer]

SkinnyBoy said:

Ruskie of course

The good old "let's take a good idea and kick the ass right out of it" approach......like it!

[XJSJohn]

tuffer said:

SkinnyBoy said:

Ruskie of course

The good old "let's take a good idea and kick the ass right out of it" approach......like it!

you have to admire the Ruskies for seriously BIG engineering

[SkinnyBoy]

XJSJohn said:

tuffer said:

SkinnyBoy said:

Ruskie of course

The good old "let's take a good idea and kick the ass right out of it" approach......like it!

you have to admire the Ruskies for seriously BIG engineering

I miss the cold war, we knew who we were up against, not some made up 2 bit goat herder menace. At least the commies had some awesome steam punk machines, They even had mobile nuclear power stations!



And look at the size of the subs they had, Typhoon class



This is awesome though, fantastic soviet era technology, a mothership ferry!

[baldy1926]

This arrived in great yarmouth a week or so ago-it must have been interesting in a heavy sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_...

[williamp]

[quote=SkinnyBoy]simply incredable images[/quote=SkinnyBoy]


Incredable! That is some serious heavy engineering. There must be a better way to do it, but I just love the engineering of that

[smiller]

Not amazing, this. But - for me - cool. The little car ferry from Glenelg to Skye; 6 cars at a time on a swivelling deck. Bless it: