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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:32
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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
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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?
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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
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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“Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,”
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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:
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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
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The US lines America, wrecked at Fuertaventura. What a sad end. Compleatly gone now AFAIK.Cookie_Monster wrote: »And an artsy one I came across
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That was a interesting read, nice history to a ship with many names.
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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.0 -
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Everyone likes a good heavy weather session...
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Bigger fishing boat, killybegs trawler Seanne hit by a rogue wave in the North Sea recently
“Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,”
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Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..
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was that one of the naval service's vessel's in that also??Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..0 -
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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
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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:
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Top photos taken by two dutch lads of ships getting hammered in the North Sea, Enjoy..
Just wondering if the Navy ship in the pictures is an Irish one, Niamh or Roisin it certainly looks like one of them.0 -
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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
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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.“Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,”
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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
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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;)0 -
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