Amazingly cool and interesting boat footage

Amazingly cool and interesting boat footage

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Athlon

5,016 posts

206 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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yellowjack

17,078 posts

166 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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Athlon said:
Quite a regular sight here off Bournemouth, crew training, acceptance trails, etc. The RNLI college is in Poole so I've been caught by the lifting bridges a few times with these boats coming and going past the Sunseeker factory. Usually I'm cycling when that happens so I get a chance to see what it is our donations pay for, and it's pretty impressive stuff.

FourWheelDrift

88,516 posts

284 months

Sunday 6th November 2022
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No need for an expensive dry docking for the destroyer USS Kidd with the Mississippi at record low levels.


Baron Greenback

6,981 posts

150 months

Thursday 30th March 2023
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Crazy speed and still cant believe they can sleep through that!

FourWheelDrift

88,516 posts

284 months

Wednesday 5th April 2023
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"A lively and dramatic silent 8mm colour film record made by Commander George C Blundell of active service on board the battleship HMS Nelson in 1941 and 1942, culminating in Operation 'Pedestal' (10 - 15 August 1942) in which heavy losses in ships and men were sustained in a bold but costly effort to re-supply the besieged island of Malta."

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/106...

Shows the sinking HMS Eagle, the damaged carrier HMS Indomitable plus HMS Rodney, HMS Furious, HMS Argus making appearances along with more.

RizzoTheRat

25,162 posts

192 months

Tuesday 25th April 2023
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Interesting ride for the tug crew at the launching of the latest LCS the other day



Bizarre that they launching a new one the same week they announce they're selling several of them though.

FourWheelDrift

88,516 posts

284 months

Sunday 28th May 2023
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Drone footage of the last of the US Navy's non-nuclear aircraft carriers that was in service (decommissioned 12th May 2009), USS Kitty Hawk being scrapped.



Once it's done that it's the turn of it's sister ship the USS John F. Kennedy.

(On 6th October 2021, John F. Kennedy and Kitty Hawk were sold for one-cent each to International Shipbreaking Limited.)

MartG

20,677 posts

204 months

Sunday 28th May 2023
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FourWheelDrift said:
Drone footage of the last of the US Navy's non-nuclear aircraft carriers that was in service (decommissioned 12th May 2009), USS Kitty Hawk being scrapped.



Once it's done that it's the turn of it's sister ship the USS John F. Kennedy.

(On 6th October 2021, John F. Kennedy and Kitty Hawk were sold for one-cent each to International Shipbreaking Limited.)
That hangar deck is huge !

MBBlat

1,625 posts

149 months

Sunday 4th June 2023
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HMS Tyne in dazzle camouflage

Nt the best shot, taken with the phone from inside the Gosport ferry pier.

MartG

20,677 posts

204 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Possibly slightly off topic - very interesting talk by Tom Clancy to an NSA audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS54M5Mqa9M

Baron Greenback

6,981 posts

150 months

Sunday 27th August 2023
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Think I need to win lottery twice

Cold

15,247 posts

90 months

Thursday 14th September 2023
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A recent news report on a rather contentious (Blue) boat which for some reason can't be discussed on here.
Anyway, finders keepers - apparently.


FourWheelDrift

88,516 posts

284 months

Wednesday 4th October 2023
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USS Gerald R. Ford Sailing Past Oscarsborg Fortress - Oslofjord, Norway, 2023

Guns and torpedo tubes standing by smile


Ari

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19,347 posts

215 months

Saturday 14th October 2023
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130R said:
Jon Olsson's hybrid super rib:

That's such an odd boat. What is it, 50ft long and it doesn't have a seperate loo on board?

I'd be curious to know if Jon really does own it, or whether it's really owned by the manufacturer and loaned to him as a publicity thing. Seems such an odd choice, even for him.

lancslad58

526 posts

8 months

Sunday 22nd October 2023
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Reenactment of the Battle of the River Plate using model ships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEeaEJtG-w&t=...



Condi

17,190 posts

171 months

Sunday 22nd October 2023
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lancslad58 said:
Reenactment of the Battle of the River Plate using model ships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEeaEJtG-w&t=...
You can still go see it in Scarborough. Well worth a visit.

Baron Greenback

6,981 posts

150 months

Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Not amazing cool but amazing cock up again! Grounded in suez canal

DodgyGeezer

40,439 posts

190 months

Thursday 7th December 2023
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Condi said:
lancslad58 said:
Reenactment of the Battle of the River Plate using model ships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEeaEJtG-w&t=...
You can still go see it in Scarborough. Well worth a visit.
was just about to post that I saw this in (about) 1978 - glad to hear that it's still going yes

PushedDover

5,653 posts

53 months

Wednesday 27th December 2023
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22,000 TEUs! ONE Claims New Cargo World Record

handpaper

1,296 posts

203 months

Sunday 7th January
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Ari said:
130R said:
Jon Olsson's hybrid super rib:

That's such an odd boat. What is it, 50ft long and it doesn't have a seperate loo on board?

I'd be curious to know if Jon really does own it, or whether it's really owned by the manufacturer and loaned to him as a publicity thing. Seems such an odd choice, even for him.
It's a day boat, quite unusual for these to have a loo at all.