Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Link to a video of the AIS tracking ------>>>> https://youtu.be/AgXqpUCXwhU
Captain (C): you take the wheel for the next few hours and don't change courseNew Trainee (NT): what if i see a ship on our course?
C: What do you think? Ram it...
NT: Ok then.....
C: I didn't mean it!
Not so much the coolness of the photo but the story.
This is the Taiwanese Navy submarine Hai Shih, it's recently had a $17m refit that will take it on into service until 2026. Not remarkable I hear. Well it will make the submarine 82 years old by that time because this submarine started out at the USS Cutlass, launched in 1944 and operated in the Pacific during WWII during April-September of 1945.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/taiwans...
Today
WWII service as the USS Cutlass.
There are older surface vessels but no other front line submarine of this age still in service.
This is the Taiwanese Navy submarine Hai Shih, it's recently had a $17m refit that will take it on into service until 2026. Not remarkable I hear. Well it will make the submarine 82 years old by that time because this submarine started out at the USS Cutlass, launched in 1944 and operated in the Pacific during WWII during April-September of 1945.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/taiwans...
Today
WWII service as the USS Cutlass.
There are older surface vessels but no other front line submarine of this age still in service.
Baron Greenback said:
In this unbelievable scene, we see American troops on their way home from the war, making their way back to New York Harbor. Crowded ships like this brought back troops for months after V-Day. The excitement and energy must have been incredible for those on board.
Wreck of USS Hornet CV-8 located
The length of the Hornet as she sits now is 205 meters measuered on the flight deck. There is approximately 45 meters of the stern missing which is in the debris field 1 nautical mile away. You can also see the initial impact crater as Hornet hit the bottom and slid 100 meters.
This is the hangar deck on the main part of the ship on the starboard side. You can see Hornet is nearly buried up to the Hangar Deck.
Another picture with possible damage from a torpedo or impacting the seafloor. That is the hangar deck visible towards the top of the photo.
This photo of Hornet gives you an idea of just how buried the ship is with the hangar deck well above the waterline.
The hull number, 8, visible on the port bow
On Northamptons last attempt at towing the Hornet they attached a cable to the port anchor chain visible here leading forward. The starboard anchor is visible in the lower left of the photo.
The F4F Wildcat from the debris field and shown in the sonar mosaic.
A 20mm Oerlikon AA gun on the port quarter. This part of the ship is 1 nautical mile from the main part of the wreck.
The Signal Bridge
Another view of the Signal Bridge
This is the starboard forward 5" gun mount - comment from someone whose father manned this gun
"Phil McCutchen Wow! Just wow! I'm trying to imagine my dad, at barely 18 years old, manning this gun as they fought off the Japanese planes attacking the ship. He spoke little about the event, except to say that they were too busy to be afraid at the time. Many thanks to the RV Petrel team and their founder, Paul Allen, for their passion in discovering these relics!"
An Anti-Aircraft projectile still in the fuse setter for the starboard forward gun in the previous photo.
The length of the Hornet as she sits now is 205 meters measuered on the flight deck. There is approximately 45 meters of the stern missing which is in the debris field 1 nautical mile away. You can also see the initial impact crater as Hornet hit the bottom and slid 100 meters.
This is the hangar deck on the main part of the ship on the starboard side. You can see Hornet is nearly buried up to the Hangar Deck.
Another picture with possible damage from a torpedo or impacting the seafloor. That is the hangar deck visible towards the top of the photo.
This photo of Hornet gives you an idea of just how buried the ship is with the hangar deck well above the waterline.
The hull number, 8, visible on the port bow
On Northamptons last attempt at towing the Hornet they attached a cable to the port anchor chain visible here leading forward. The starboard anchor is visible in the lower left of the photo.
The F4F Wildcat from the debris field and shown in the sonar mosaic.
A 20mm Oerlikon AA gun on the port quarter. This part of the ship is 1 nautical mile from the main part of the wreck.
The Signal Bridge
Another view of the Signal Bridge
This is the starboard forward 5" gun mount - comment from someone whose father manned this gun
"Phil McCutchen Wow! Just wow! I'm trying to imagine my dad, at barely 18 years old, manning this gun as they fought off the Japanese planes attacking the ship. He spoke little about the event, except to say that they were too busy to be afraid at the time. Many thanks to the RV Petrel team and their founder, Paul Allen, for their passion in discovering these relics!"
An Anti-Aircraft projectile still in the fuse setter for the starboard forward gun in the previous photo.
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where it appears to have lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years.
The 23-metre (75ft) vessel, thought to be ancient Greek, was discovered with its mast, rudders and rowing benches all present and correct just over a mile below the surface. A lack of oxygen at that depth preserved it, the researchers said.
The oldest Navy ship still in front line service. The Russian submarine salvage ship Kommuna. Launched on 17th November 1913. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_salvage_ship...
And it's a big twin hulled catamaran.
And it's a big twin hulled catamaran.
MartG said:
In 2003, a polar bear attacked an American submarine. USS Connecticut (SSN-22) had partly surfaced in an ice pack when a polar bear began to stalk the sub and gnaw on the exposed rudder. After 40 minutes, the bear determined the sub wasn't edible and wandered off...
Yikes.... it would be unfortunate to pop out of the conning tower only to be immediately eaten by a bear. 
Not sure if I'd consider it "amazingly cool" but thought I'd post anyway. This was taken from a rig I work on in the south North sea.
I assume the ship on the right is a fisheries vessel? Interestingly, the fishing boat appeared on our AIS, and we kept our eye on it to make sure he stayed clear of our 500m zone. Any ID showing the location of the fisheries vessel was distinctly absent, for obvious reasons I guess.
I assume the ship on the right is a fisheries vessel? Interestingly, the fishing boat appeared on our AIS, and we kept our eye on it to make sure he stayed clear of our 500m zone. Any ID showing the location of the fisheries vessel was distinctly absent, for obvious reasons I guess.
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