Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[swanny71]

FUBAR said:

Maybe not an 'Amazingly Cool Picture of Ships' but its certainly a picture of an amazingly cool ship

My first weekend of the seaon in Lymington this weekend, and this was moored at the end of the jetty.

Dunkirk Little Ship "Bounty". Absolutely gorgeous

She is a beauty and I get to see her most days from work

[XJSJohn]

dirty boy said:

Not quite a ship or amazingly cool, but I cycle past this boat every morning.

I even attended an evening presentation by the trust owner

Launched 1937
Used to evacuate Dunkirk (crossing the Channel 8 times)
Starred in the 1976 film "The Eagle Has Landed" (starring Michael Caine)

Originally powered by three Isotta Fraschini 57 litre petrol engines each of 1100hp. giving a speed of 48 knots light and 43 knots loaded and armed, this made her the fastest wartime British naval vessel in service Now that is cool!

MTB102, very

But just think, its dark and you are on patrol in the English Channel, its 1941 when the channel war was at its most fierce, you are drifting engines off listening, you hear the thrum thrum of the diesel engines in a flotilla of Germa E-Boats, then remember that you have three Isotta Fraschini 57 litre petrol engines and all the PETROL necessary to feed them, wrapped up in a wood hull with no armour plating .... and the E-Boats have tracer bullets that travel significantly faster than your 48 knots.

those boys and men of the Costal Command had seriously large balls!!!!

[spitfire-ian]

[dirty boy]

spitfire-ian said:

Similar to the Excelsior - funnily enough, another boat I cycle past regularly (not in Lowestoft at the moment though)

[Rower]

XJSJohn said:

dirty boy said:

Not quite a ship or amazingly cool, but I cycle past this boat every morning.

I even attended an evening presentation by the trust owner

Launched 1937
Used to evacuate Dunkirk (crossing the Channel 8 times)
Starred in the 1976 film "The Eagle Has Landed" (starring Michael Caine)

Originally powered by three Isotta Fraschini 57 litre petrol engines each of 1100hp. giving a speed of 48 knots light and 43 knots loaded and armed, this made her the fastest wartime British naval vessel in service Now that is cool!

MTB102, very

But just think, its dark and you are on patrol in the English Channel, its 1941 when the channel war was at its most fierce, you are drifting engines off listening, you hear the thrum thrum of the diesel engines in a flotilla of Germa E-Boats, then remember that you have three Isotta Fraschini 57 litre petrol engines and all the PETROL necessary to feed them, wrapped up in a wood hull with no armour plating .... and the E-Boats have tracer bullets that travel significantly faster than your 48 knots.

those boys and men of the Costal Command had seriously large balls!!!!

Similar vessels to this were used to nip over the chanel and cause as much damage to enemy equiptment as possible and then get back to England before they new what was going on. BUT they could only carry enough fuel for one journey and had to meet up with a another vessel carrying fuel to enable them to get home. As these raids were carried out under maximum dark conditions when there was no moon imagine trying to find that fuel carrier !! Very large balls indeed !!

[Lordsmut]

FourWheelDrift said:

USS Missouri squeezing itself into one of the locks on the Panama Canal, the Iowa class Battleships although the longest built at 270m were at 33m width (narrow for their length) designed to just fit.



"I also cook"

[tuscan_al]

Passing by the Tall Ship, Pelican of London, during our race in the Funchal 500 tall ships race, one of the many lovely tall ships. I was on the UK ex BT global challenge boat, Endeavour as now named by JSASTC. Will be taking her from Auckland to Montevideo next Jan, as part of exercisetransglobe, going to be amazing fun.

[village idiot]

Munter said:

AshVX220 said:

FUBAR said:

Maybe not an 'Amazingly Cool Picture of Ships' but its certainly a picture of an amazingly cool ship

My first weekend of the seaon in Lymington this weekend, and this was moored at the end of the jetty.

Dunkirk Little Ship "Bounty". Absolutely gorgeous

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http://www.adls.org.uk/shipinfo.cfm?id=19&Rest...

That's beautiful, it's been restored with a massive amount of care and love!

....and money!

I agree though. It's a good looking thing.

oi oi oi!... the money involved in refitting Bounty was money very well spent (ie. it helped to pay my wages).

she is an absolutely stunning yacht which has benefitted from a loving owner committed enough to embark on plank-by-plank restoration

[village idiot]

XJSJohn said:

FUBAR said:

Maybe not an 'Amazingly Cool Picture of Ships' but its certainly a picture of an amazingly cool ship

My first weekend of the seaon in Lymington this weekend, and this was moored at the end of the jetty.

Dunkirk Little Ship "Bounty". Absolutely gorgeous

I remember seeing her about the Solent in the 80's ... she is looking good for her age.

Anyone know if the Somerset is still about, Big white "little ship" that was kept on a swinging moring off Hamble Point Marina in the 80's.


I think she was owned by Racall Decca as a testbed for equipment.

i think we sold her a few years back... i'm pretty sure she is still to be found on the west banks of the medina river

[krallicious]

dirty boy said:

Not quite a ship or amazingly cool, but I cycle past this boat every morning.

I even attended an evening presentation by the trust owner

Launched 1937
Used to evacuate Dunkirk (crossing the Channel 8 times)
Starred in the 1976 film "The Eagle Has Landed" (starring Michael Caine)

Originally powered by three Isotta Fraschini 57 litre petrol engines each of 1100hp. giving a speed of 48 knots light and 43 knots loaded and armed, this made her the fastest wartime British naval vessel in service Now that is cool!

Where is that moored? It looks very familiar.

[spitfire-ian]

Lowestoft by the sound of things http://www.mtb102.com/index.htm#News

[krallicious]

Ooops, so just up the road from where I grew up then

[dirty boy]

krallicious said:

Ooops, so just up the road from where I grew up then

Was moored at Brundall for a long time.

[swanny71]

tuscan_al said:

Passing by the Tall Ship, Pelican of London, during our race in the Funchal 500 tall ships race, one of the many lovely tall ships. I was on the UK ex BT global challenge boat, Endeavour as now named by JSASTC. Will be taking her from Auckland to Montevideo next Jan, as part of exercisetransglobe, going to be amazing fun.

Were you on at the start of the race in Falmouth Al?

Edited by swanny71 on Friday 17th April 15:38

[colinjm]

Not amazingly cool, but i'm pleased with how it came out, 4 pics stitched into one.

USS Theodore Roosevelt anchored in the Solent from as close as I could get to her at Stokes Bay.



Large pic here

[Shar2]

Great photo Colinjm. Nicely stitched.

[colinjm]

Shar2 said:

Great photo Colinjm. Nicely stitched.

Many Thanks, but I cant take the credit on the stitching, Photoshop Elements did that.

[Shar2]

colinjm said:

Shar2 said:

Great photo Colinjm. Nicely stitched.

Many Thanks, but I cant take the credit on the stitching, Photoshop Elements did that.

Yeah but you had to take all the photos in the right place.

[smiller]

Wonderful thread!

Going to be late to bed now.

My 2p worth is the great liners. I really don't know why, but I've always had a big soft spot for these old girls:

Normandie (in her glory days)



and in her agonising death throes in New York harbour



Queen Mary (Normandie's nemesis for the Blue Riband)



SS United States (the Blue Riband holder for ocean liners)



Queen Elizabeth (Britain's biggest before QM2)



and dying in Hong Kong harbour

[Mojocvh]

colinjm said:

Not amazingly cool, but i'm pleased with how it came out, 4 pics stitched into one.

USS Theodore Roosevelt anchored in the Solent from as close as I could get to her at Stokes Bay.



Large pic here

so cool she's even got her own tail gunner.....