Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[iacabu]

A few pics of my previous ship, 'Eddystone'.



The ocd in me wishes I took a step to the left when this was taken!








Taken during an 18hr pilotage on the Saint Lawrence River. Still one of my favourite experiences on board.





Bioluminescence taken on a 30 sec exposure. iirc this was taken heading North along the coast of Oman / UAE


I also started an Instagram account called 'shipviews' to share a few pics but quickly gave up on it so there's only 12. Maybe I'll get round to posting more soon



As it might be of interest to some of you. Here is a video created by the ship yard when we went into drydock. I'm on the bridge wings as we went into the dock (I've a video somewhere of us catching the corner on the port side) and also stood by the stern ramp taking pictures as it was taken away at 1:22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-oILSiPTs


Also appeared on ITV News in a story about British shipping. I'm in the purple harness when the rescue boat is launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEcRsku0l0g

Edited by iacabu on Thursday 9th January 12:44

[DJFish]

A few from this week;

[Brother D]

Relaunch of J Class Lionheart



J Class are pretty awesome (and probably one of the most beautiful yatchs to grace the water), but they were not as big as America's Cup winner Reliance (sadly scraped after the race).

[PushedDover]

Sad really, not cool

[DJFish]

PushedDover said:

Sad really, not cool

Is that Alang?
Good to see a distinct lack of safety flip-flops in that photo...

[Europa1]

DJFish said:

A few from this week;

What are the tubes on the stern?

[DJFish]

Stern rollers for cable laying, similar to what you see on the back of an anchor handling tug

[MartG]

Ark Royal and Nimitz in the '70s

Really illustrates the challenge faced by FAA pilots compared to their USN/USMC colleagues !

[FourWheelDrift]

Landing area is probably the same size.

Americans landing on the Ark Royal - https://youtu.be/1hnVaNvjKKs?t=57

They do a few practice landings before landing.

[MartG]

FourWheelDrift said:

Landing area is probably the same size.

Nimitz' angled deck i.e. the bit used for landing, is as long as the entire Ark Royal

Edited by MartG on Monday 3rd February 13:49

[FourWheelDrift]

The bit it lands on, where the arrestor cables are is probably the same (width, length target)

[DavieBNL]

Anyone know where the carrier photo was taken?

[FourWheelDrift]

DavieBNL said:

Anyone know where the carrier photo was taken?

Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, August 1978.

[Baron Greenback]

Wow knew there was a size difference but those pics puts it in perspective! Cant use the excuse of ones closer than the other!

[DavieBNL]

FourWheelDrift said:

Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, August 1978.

Cheers 4WD - just looked at it on Maps - what a Base!

[mgreenwood]

USS Zumwalt with USS Michael Monsoor behind - San Diego 17th Feb 2020

[Baron Greenback]

Always think ^^^ looks kick ass awesome, loved the idea of pure electric boats inc guns powered by magnetic with no powder and just kinetic power.

Not well received,full of bugs I hear!

[irocfan]

mgreenwood said:

USS Zumwalt with USS Michael Monsoor behind - San Diego 17th Feb 2020

it does amuse me (knowing nothing about prow/bow design - or, indeed, much about boats at all) that bow design seems to be back to the dreadnought era

[cardigankid]

thinfourth2 said:

Unfortunate name.

[PushedDover]