Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!
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williamp said:
SkinnyBoy said:
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
bit more info i've found from Googling this beastIncredable! That is some serious heavy engineering. There must be a better way to do it, but I just love the engineering of that
Its near Krasnoyarskaya GES powerstation, and it goes right over the Dam there!
http://www.e-river.ru/gallery/view.php?id=1413&...
It has 78 wheels and moves with a speed of 1 metre per second; the turntable is 106 metres in diameter with angle of 140 degrees; the level difference is 104 metres, full length - 1510 metres, on-ground part - 1180 m; carrying capacity - 8100 tons.
Here's a few with local significance for me- although their coolness is debatable:
HMS Foudrouyant, one's of Nelson's flagships, after being wrecked at Blackpool in 1897 with no casualities (IIRC). The captain's chair is now in the Mason's lodge in the town.
Just three years earlier in 1894 the Norwegian barque Abana was wrecked on the Cleveleys coast-again with no casualities:
What makes this interesting is that it still exists today and can be seen at every low tide:
And then last year the Riverdance very nearly landed on top of it!
HMS Foudrouyant, one's of Nelson's flagships, after being wrecked at Blackpool in 1897 with no casualities (IIRC). The captain's chair is now in the Mason's lodge in the town.
Just three years earlier in 1894 the Norwegian barque Abana was wrecked on the Cleveleys coast-again with no casualities:
What makes this interesting is that it still exists today and can be seen at every low tide:
And then last year the Riverdance very nearly landed on top of it!
This week I met one of the chaps who were on the Fleetwood lifeboat attending that; he said it was the only time he'd ever been scared. Looking out the wheelhouse windows was like looking into a washing machine the whole time, and the sensation not unlike being in the drum during a spin cycle!
It was a truly horrific night. My house faces the sea about a mile north of where the ferry landed and I remember hearing the helicopter directly overhead and wondering if there was a ship in distress, because it wasn't the sort of weather a sane helicopter pilot would've been out in.
Cleveleys has a bit of a reputation for breaking ships- 30 foot tides and a seriously shallow approach make for big waves in bad weather. The tide goes out a good half a mile or more here.
Cleveleys has a bit of a reputation for breaking ships- 30 foot tides and a seriously shallow approach make for big waves in bad weather. The tide goes out a good half a mile or more here.
, even if most involve a ships death. 
k off seas? 
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