Anyone Interested in Ships

[NorthBrit]

As the title says  -  Anyone interested in ships and shipping.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by NorthBrit

[Simon Lee]

Here you are few oldies to start :

 

 

Olympiakos 63/10892 ex London Statesman, photo in Rotterdam April 1983 attacked and sank Khor Musa Channel Feb 1984.

 

 

Montevideo 58/8370 ex Sungate photo Rotterdam April 1983 broken up Kaohsiung January 84

 

 

Cape Kamari 62/11419 ex Brissac photo River Fal March 1984 broken up Bombay January 87 

[Nick G]

Yes, I am a ship fan real and model. Get photos of the vessels loading at Cemex Raynes Jetty at Llanddulas on the N Wales coast.

 

 

 

[Nick G]

Few more ship photos taken locally.

 

 

[Nick G]

YOGI on the beach for some welding.

[NorthBrit]

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Edited February 27, 2020 by NorthBrit

[Nick G]

 

 

Britannia (of P&O) also in Cadiz 26-07-17

 

 

 

 

Britannia

[Hilux5972]

Here's a few of the Queen Mary 2 in Auckland, New Zealand. Unfortunately Aucklands cruise terminal dock is not deep enough to take liners of the Queen Mary 2's size a draft. So she has to berth at the container wharf.

One of Queen Elizabeth too. She does fit at the cruise terminal.

[jjb1970]

Call me a heathen, but I find modern cruise ships are becoming uglier and uglier. Compare the hull lines and elegance of older ships with the current breed of floating breeze blocks and it is a sad comparison I think.

[New Haven Neil]

Couldn't agree more!

 

I had a great trip on this old girl....

 

Bibby Line's Warwickshire.

 

[jjb1970]

My first ship was this:

 

http://www.raywoodmore.com/rp2385.jpg

 

Ugly funnel excepted she was a lovely old bucket. This was the better BAS boat I sailed on:

 

https://abinantarctica.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img_6436.jpg

 

But this was the much nicer BAS boat:

 

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/1016106.jpg

 

And I finished my career on this:

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tsmhl8V4zDs/Ue2jQheaF7I/AAAAAAAABiY/e9oxTgoImWA/s1600/011.JPG

 

The best ships I sailed on were this class:

 

http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/images/newportbay.jpg

 

My favourites this class:

 

http://kelvindavies.co.uk/kelvin/data/media/60/tokyo_bay_2.jpg

 

And I won't dignify the truly evil pieces of **** Mairangi Bay or Resolution Bay by posting a link, Hitler's revenge.

[eastglosmog]

A few taken at Mormagoa in 1996:

 

Transhipment vessel Sanjeevani, an ex T2 tanker used for transferring iron ore from barges to bulk ore carriers that were too deep to load to full capacity alongside the quay.

 

 

The bulk ore carrier MV Endeavor that was being loaded by Sanjeevani, bound for Italy.

 

 

Another bulk ore carrier, being loaded by the ship loader in Mormagoa.

 

Edited to add ship's name, which i remembered overnight!

Edited April 10, 2022 by eastglosmog
Restore photos

[New Haven Neil]

You sailed on the Bransfield, JJB?  Did you sail with Dick Pascoe?

 

My first ship:- loved her...

 

 

Worst....

 

 

Last...

 

[jjb1970]

Yes, sailed on the Bransfield, can't remember a Dick Pascoe though. Thinking about it, it is twenty years since I worked for BAS, where does the time go? Reminds me of the first time I had trainees born after I'd finished my cadetship.

[Hampshire Hog]

Sorry more cruise ships.

 

 

 

P&O Sister Ships moored together in Antigua.

 

Best Regards

 

Kevin.

[DaveF]

I quite often go down to the harbour where I can park on the quayside to look at ships.

 

The Arklow ships are carrying alumina which then goes by rail to Fort William.

 

We also see a lot of support ships.

 

Other cargo ships come and go.

 

 

Arklow Manor at Blyth

 

 

Arklow Moor at North Blyth

 

 

CS Recorder at Blyth March 2017

 

 

CS Recorder at Blyth July2017

 

 

Grand Canyon at Blyth

 

 

Nor Atlantis at dawn

 

 

Nor da Vinci at Blyth

 

 

David

[Hilux5972]

Call me a heathen, but I find modern cruise ships are becoming uglier and uglier. Compare the hull lines and elegance of older ships with the current breed of floating breeze blocks and it is a sad comparison I think.

I agree on the whole, but the Cunard ships are much better looking than other cruise ships. Just personal preference.

[The Stationmaster]

Brittany Ferries strike - weird 'funnel' arrangement, very confusing as the viewing angle changes

 

 

Somewhat more classic lines, especially so considering what she is, on the RFA 'Fort Rosalie' (formerly 'Fort Grange') now over 40 years old but still at sea

 

 

How could I omit our regular holiday ship?  Another old lady and for you engineering types according to the Chief she has at least one example of just about every screw thread known in the Western world

 

 

And somewhere completely different - QE2 alongside the old immigration quay (now cruise ship terminal) at Circular Quay Sydney

 

 

 

A stern (yes, really) view of the Manly ferry 'Collaroy' arriving at Circular Quay

 

 

A bow view of sister ship 'Freshwater' arriving at Circular Quay - taken from the station platform

 

 

A floating block of holiday flats blending in with the tower blocks of the CBD at Circular Quay

 

 

The former Carpentaria lightship as preserved at the Sydney Maritime Museum

 

 

 

Edit to correct typo

Edited August 2, 2017 by The Stationmaster

[The Stationmaster]

'Cap Harrisson' heading down (English) Channel for Southampton, at 18 knots 

 

 

'Ebroborg' off Dungeness

 

 

Greenwich light vessel (so called because it is moored on the Greenwich meridian, and quite a way from Greenwich)

 

 

DFDS 'Sealandia Seaways' alongside at Felixstowe

 

[MarkC]

My present 'office'

 

[Simon Lee]

Some black and whites from the 60's

 

 

Ellerman Wilson Lines Spero 66/6196 King George Dock Hull 1967 BU Alang 2004

 

 

Spero's running mate Swedish Lloyds Svea 66/7883 again Hull King George Dock 1967 BU Alang  2011

 

 

EWL's Sorrento 67/1523 in Alexandra dock lock Hull 1968 

 

 

EWL Rialto 49/4993 King George Dock Hull, just before sale in 1969 BU Whampoa 1971

 

 

Stephenson Clarke Collier thought to be Seaford anchored in the Humber off Hull Corporation Pier. 

 

 

 

 

[JeremyC]

Some from my time in the merchant navy.

 

Denholms Ship Management:

First ship 'Burmah Cameo' joined in July 1974

 

The Anglia Team and Sevonia Team laid up in Norway in 1975. I was also on the sister ship Scandia Team.

 

Burmah Agate 1976. This ship came to a tragic end in 1979 when she caught fire after a collision with another ship off the Galveston Coast in the Gulf of Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmah_Agate.

 

Chemical Venturer, Italy, 1979

 

Burmah Pearl, Lisbon, 1985. My last ship with Denholms.

 

Department of Fisheries for Scotland / Scottish Fishery Protection Agency / Marine Scotland.

 

FPV Westra. Similar to RN island class.  My first ship as chief engineer. If you have ever watched 'Whale Wars' on TV you might recognise her as she is now Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin.

 

FPV Sulisker. Last heard of derelict in Lowestoft after a failed attempt to convert her to a luxury yacht.

 

MPV Hirta. My last ship; I was chief engineer on her from build in 2007 until I retired

 

Engine Room of Hirta in 2016. Diesel Electric Propulsion.

 

I Joined Denholms as a cadet in August 1972 and retired from Marine Scotland in August 2017.

 

Jeremy

Edited August 2, 2017 by JeremyC

[Adrian Wintle]

Rather than repeat the post, this thread has some of my (and others) photos from the Great Lakes.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/93723-great-lakes-shipping/

 

Adrian

[Adrian Wintle]

From a few years ago, here is OOCL Kaohsiung entering Chesapeake Bay, taken from the parking lot on the southern portal of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

 

Adrian

[NorthBrit]

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Edited February 27, 2020 by NorthBrit