Ship porn

Tabnabs

phwoarrrrr



The new Technip pipe lay vessel loaded on the chinese semi submersible freighter Xiang Rui Kou. I always wanted to work on a heavy lift ship, they seem fascinating, every cargo is impressive and I'd imagine a unique challenge.


Burbon Mistral - Ulstein X bow design. Great to see new designs that improve comfort, stability and efficiency.



This is ex.research vessel GEOLOG PRIMORYA, IMO 8228268, presently used as "car" carrier. :pac:

skipz

Love the photo of the Burbon Mistral.

Here's a photo of the Japanese drilling ship the Chikyu
Quite mad looking!

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af52/skip_2010/A08.jpg

Cookie_Monster

This monstroity is the Noble Discoverer, notable for being where Lucy Lawless was arrested this week and being one of the oldest drilling ships in the world, dating from the 60's. It's also remarkably ugly

She had the top of the tower lost overboard in a storm and was refitted here in New Plymouth before sailing for the Artic
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/noble-discoverer-shell-drill-ship.jpg

Cardinal Richelieu

Neptune, crane vessel designed for use with the Wind Turbine fields. There can't be too many sea going vessels under the Luxembourg flag.

http://photos.marinetraffic.com/ais/showphoto.aspx?mmsi=253532000&imo=9616864

ex_infantry man

X bow is definately the cool new thing on ships, watched a programme on it and they but it up against a normal shaped bow and it heavy sea,s xbow came out tops from what i can recall

Poor Uncle Tom

Ulstein Container Ship,

another x-bow

Tabnabs

ex_infantry man wrote: »

X bow is definately the cool new thing on ships, watched a programme on it and they but it up against a normal shaped bow and it heavy sea,s xbow came out tops from what i can recall

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnTZS6UiV3M

Cookie_Monster

There's an X-bow survey ship down here, I must try and get pics next time it's in the port.

Another weird design, Swath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-waterplane-area_twin_hull

cyrusdvirus

I'm sorry..

I think those X Bow's are ugly as sin!!!


Then again, I call the Type 45's the Conehead class....



I think they'd be quite pretty and attractive ships without that monstrosity atop the pilothouse!!

323

Tabnabs wrote: »

phwoarrrrr



The new Technip pipe lay vessel loaded on the chinese semi submersible freighter Xiang Rui Kou. I always wanted to work on a heavy lift ship, they seem fascinating, every cargo is impressive and I'd imagine a unique challenge.
:pac:

Nice view of Technip's new Deep Energy, but Chinese built, looks neat but wait and see. Just home from a new shiney chinese built construction vessel, absolute scrap, looks pretty but pathetic build quality.

Anyway, when you mentioned heavy lift vessels, first thing I visualise is something like this.


Heerema's, DCV Balder. Old now and far from the biggest these days but still a respectable lift,
3600 t & 2700t cranes

Cookie_Monster

Tabnabs wrote: »

The new Technip pipe lay vessel loaded on the chinese semi submersible freighter Xiang Rui Kou. I always wanted to work on a heavy lift ship, they seem fascinating, every cargo is impressive and I'd imagine a unique challenge.

What's the point of shipping such a large deep ocean going vessel rather than just sailing it? Can understand with smaller vessels or with military but something like that?


Knock Nevis, largest ship every built and the largest self propelled man made object ever. 657,000 tonnes :eek:

Cookie_Monster

And an artsy one I came across

alphasully

323 wrote: »

Nice view of Technip's new Deep Energy, but Chinese built, looks neat but wait and see. Just home from a new shiney chinese built construction vessel, absolute scrap, looks pretty but pathetic build quality.

Anyway, when you mentioned heavy lift vessels, first thing I visualise is something like this.


Heerema's, DCV Balder. Old now and far from the biggest these days but still a respectable lift,
3600 t & 2700t cranes

I'm fairly sure I saw her in Rotterdam at the end of January, she still looks impressive

roundymac

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

And an artsy one I came across

The US lines America, wrecked at Fuertaventura. What a sad end. Compleatly gone now AFAIK.

cyrusdvirus

roundymac wrote: »

The US lines America, wrecked at Fuertaventura. What a sad end. Compleatly gone now AFAIK.

At that time she was named American Star.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_America_%281940%29

Poor Uncle Tom

http://www.shanemcdonald.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/TheSamson1-693x835.jpg

The remains of the Samson Crane Ship on rocks at Ardmore, Co. Waterford after snapping a tow line of the coast of Wales in December 1987.

skipz

gatecrash wrote: »

At that time she was named American Star.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_America_%281940%29

That was a interesting read, nice history to a ship with many names.

Cardinal Richelieu

I notice we have a couple of wreck photos in this thread, perhaps we can create a separate thread on wrecks and there sailing history? When we get a forum mod they can move the wreck photos and information from this thread to there. Just a thought.

cyrusdvirus

Sounds like an idea to me.

Tabnabs

The European Navigator (an old ship of mine) that had a long an varied life on the Irish Sea. She had a very interesting and unusual start to her existence also.

She was built in two sections in Austria (of all places!), the hull itself and the superstructure on a barge. Both units had to be towed on the Danube down to Galatz, Romania, where the superstructure was to be placed on the hull. The tow began in June 1976, but a road bridge collapsed, lying over the planned route.

All shipping was stopped on the Danube for about three weeks. It was also a hot summer and the water level was very low on the Danube, this meant the hull was grounding. Then they started to plan a different route for the hull and barge, over to Yugoslavia instead.

They began to tow the ship from Austria to Yugoslavia, but when they came to Novo City, Yugoslavia where they would have to pass under a bridge, as it had rained a lot the hull could fit under the bridge, but not the barge with the superstructure. So they towed it all back to the yard in Austria again, and waited until the water level was normal...

The following year the the hull and superstructure arrived at Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg, Germany, where the hull was joined to the superstructure and was then extended by 28 meters. She then entered her seagoing career.

Trojan

Until we have clarification on the Sherlock's Folly copyright debacle, can you guys post links to the images, rather than embed them directly? I've edited a couple that explicitly have a copyright on the image, and if you aren't sure about an image you're posting, then link it to be safe.

If you're annoyed by this, please write a letter (old school, with a stamp is best) to your local TDs.

Tabnabs

Everyone likes a good heavy weather session...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZiNrdsdQ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8j8MnRUcvY

mp22

http://www.irishships.com/images/ISL%20Ltd/ISL%20Crew/Irish%20Pine/Irish%20Pine%20video%201979/Heavy%20weather.wmv


Something a bit bigger than a fishing boat.

323

Bigger fishing boat, killybegs trawler Seanne hit by a rogue wave in the North Sea recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_g_c8Dh3c

mp22

In fairness that was some lump of water.^^^

skipz

Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsR0_piaWVw

ex_infantry man

skipz wrote: »

Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsR0_piaWVw

was that one of the naval service's vessel's in that also??

ex_infantry man

mp22 wrote: »

http://www.irishships.com/images/ISL%20Ltd/ISL%20Crew/Irish%20Pine/Irish%20Pine%20video%201979/Heavy%20weather.wmv


Something a bit bigger than a fishing boat.

think the irish pine was me father's first ship and about the time that video was shot

mp22

It was in 79

johngalway

Those X bow ships are class, first time I've seen that. Are there any fishing boats with that design I wonder?

ex_infantry man

mp22 wrote: »

It was in 79

yeah he was all over the place on it judging by pics that are at home, i defo know he was in canada aboard her

roundymac

ex_infantry man wrote: »

think the irish pine was me father's first ship and about the time that video was shot

The Irish Pine(3) was sold in 1984. It went on to be the Cristinaki, was sadly lost with all hands about 100 miles off the Cork coast in 1994. There was a docudrama on one of the Discovery channels(open to correction) a few years back. The rescue helicopters were just reaching her when she went down. The crew radioed that they could hear the choppers. Very sad.

cyrusdvirus

roundymac wrote: »

The Irish Pine(3) was sold in 1984. It went on to be the Cristinaki, was sadly lost with all hands about 100 miles off the Cork coast in 1994. There was a docudrama on one of the Discovery channels(open to correction) a few years back. The rescue helicopters were just reaching her when she went down. The crew radioed that they could hear the choppers. Very sad.

|Never knew that.

http://www.parthenon.uk.com/disaster-christinaki.htm

I wonder in there any books available on the full history of Irish Shipping Limited, and also that goes on to detail the ultimate fate of the fleet...

mp22

ex_infantry man wrote: »

yeah he was all over the place on it judging by pics that are at home, i defo know he was in canada aboard her

Ask him if you can scan the first page (of ships) in his book and post it here.I started in 79 as well but had to go to the CIT first.

Poor Uncle Tom

http://www.irishships.com/irish_shipping_ltd.html

The St Patrick, the first ship I was on.

ex_infantry man

mp22 wrote: »

Ask him if you can scan the first page (of ships) in his book and post it here.I started in 79 as well but had to go to the CIT first.

will have a root around out home for pics and get em up asap

ex_infantry man

roundymac wrote: »

The Irish Pine(3) was sold in 1984. It went on to be the Cristinaki, was sadly lost with all hands about 100 miles off the Cork coast in 1994. There was a docudrama on one of the Discovery channels(open to correction) a few years back. The rescue helicopters were just reaching her when she went down. The crew radioed that they could hear the choppers. Very sad.

i can actually remember it being on the news when was younger, luckily he went on to work for bell lines here in waterford after it was sold

Tim the Enchanter

Stena Felicity was the first ship i was on. I can still remember coming down to Rosslare and you could see her funnel away in the distance. I remember thinking it was massive.

Drummerboy08

The Felicity is somewhere in Scandanavia now isn't it? My oul fella spent many years aboard her, then a few more on the Beatrix when she took over the Fishguard route.

Wasn't the Irish Ferries Normandy the twin of the Felicity?

Maverick88

The Felicity was a great ship, went over on many occasions on her. The Stena Europe currently on the Fishguard run is the sister to the Normandy. There's pictures in various book on Rosslare of the two sisters side by side in their different livery's

Drummerboy08

Maverick88 wrote: »

The Felicity was a great ship, went over on many occasions on her. The Stena Europe currently on the Fishguard run is the sister to the Normandy. There's pictures in various book on Rosslare of the two sisters side by side in their different livery's

Ah yes, I knew it was one of the two!

I've seen them side by side many times myself.

Tim the Enchanter

My father was a bit of an 'enthusiastic ship spotter' for want of a better expression. We used to spend our Sundays in Dunmore East with a couple of pairs of binoculars, spotting merchant shipping in the estuary. Unfortunately there’s not as much of it these days. Aside from that though one memorable trip was on the PS Waverley. Don't know why she was in Waterford though. We boarded on the quay in Waterford and steamed down the river and out around hook head, turned about and steamed back up to Waterford.

PS Waverley

cocoshovel

Not the highest quality but I think this one catches something awesome. I dont know much about ships but I have loved this video for some time now. Maybe its just the song :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA13MuubDGE

Maverick88

Maverick88 wrote: »

The Felicity was a great ship, went over on many occasions on her. The Stena Europe currently on the Fishguard run is the sister to the Normandy. There's pictures in various book on Rosslare of the two sisters side by side in their different livery's

I did my steering ticket on the Normandy.

Found memories on that ship.

Storm 10

skipz wrote: »

Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsR0_piaWVw

Just wondering if the Navy ship in the pictures is an Irish one, Niamh or Roisin it certainly looks like one of them.

somefeen

I love these two videos


http://youtu.be/-rRD3sCz8QA

http://youtu.be/295ojtHeVQQ

I miss that harbour

long range shooter

ex_infantry man wrote: »

X bow is definately the cool new thing on ships, watched a programme on it and they but it up against a normal shaped bow and it heavy sea,s xbow came out tops from what i can recall

Its a very good design going up against the waves,but the total oposite the other way:eek:

long range shooter

Here my first command in the North sea

The AHTS Sea Tiger
http://youtu.be/qfd68DipY3g

And this is in 2011 in the North sea,when we hit bad weather during Towing\Anchorhandling operations.

http://youtu.be/jfRs6upuj20

And i am pretty sure noone ever heard of this incident between Norway and Russia over the trawler Electron.

http://youtu.be/Jy0W2YTTlTo

And the worlds fastest patrolboat 60+ knots.

http://youtu.be/ZyPsZ7kBQK0

323

long range shooter wrote: »

Here my first command in the North sea

The AHTS Sea Tiger
http://youtu.be/qfd68DipY3g

And this is in 2011 in the North sea,when we hit bad weather during Towing\Anchorhandling operations.

http://youtu.be/jfRs6upuj20

/QUOTE]

Thanks for that. Good luck to you but have already put your post to use to answer a regular question I get. Why I would rather work in West Africa over the North Sea?
Done that but much prefer these weather conditions.

Loading subsea structures on the "Normand Installer" in Lobito, Angola a few weeks back.


Steaming to work site


On location



Very capable multi-purpose vessel too, double decked, second work deck on top of the anchor handling deck for instillation work, cable carousel below decks, 50t & 150 t cranes and 350t A frame, 2 work class ROV's.

long range shooter

323 wrote: »

long range shooter wrote: »

Here my first command in the North sea

The AHTS Sea Tiger
http://youtu.be/qfd68DipY3g

And this is in 2011 in the North sea,when we hit bad weather during Towing\Anchorhandling operations.

http://youtu.be/jfRs6upuj20

/QUOTE]

Thanks for that. Good luck to you but have already put your post to use to answer a regular question I get. Why I would rather work in West Africa over the North Sea?
Done that but much prefer these weather conditions.

Loading subsea structures on the "Normand Installer" in Lobito, Angola a few weeks back.


Steaming to work site


On location



Very capable multi-purpose vessel too, double decked, second work deck on top of the anchor handling deck for instillation work, cable carousel below decks, 50t & 150 t cranes and 350t A frame, 2 work class ROV's.

Well i am down in Egypt at the moment with sunny days,and i was 2 years before that in Brazil with sunny days,and before that i was on the spot market on West Africa for 2 years,and so far nothing can beat can beat the good old North sea.;):D
And Survey,cable and ROV,boring,all the action is on Anchorhandling;)

323

long range shooter wrote: »

323 wrote: »

And Survey,cable and ROV,boring,all the action is on Anchorhandling;)

Everyone to their own, as long as it pays the bills:), but you forgot to mention construction.

Although I'll bet when you go for a pint in your local when at home, everyone still thinks you work on rigs.