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    #1742
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    That looks more like an Union Castle liner.


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    #1743
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Hard to tell which Castle it is as the rigging configurations likely changed over the years but it looks close to one of Athlone, Pendennis, Edinburgh or Bloemfontein Castle.

    My dad grew up in Rhodesia and was on loads of the Union Castle boats. Got sent to school in England just after the war at age twelve and took one of these from Cape Town to Southampton apparently on his own though I suspect he had some sort of champerone. Ten years later it was flying boats for a short time which took a week's travel.


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    #1744
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    cnocbui wrote: »
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    Royal Navy Whitby class frigate, HMS Brighton in 1967. Same ship as in the earlier photo. I got the decade wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Brighton_(F106)

    Lovely peaceful scene anchored in Aden harbour now called Yemen compared to the s..t hole it is today one dangerous Country.


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    #1745
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    tricky D wrote: »
    Hard to tell which Castle it is as the rigging configurations likely changed over the years but it looks close to one of Athlone, Pendennis, Edinburgh or Bloemfontein Castle.

    My dad grew up in Rhodesia and was on loads of the Union Castle boats. Got sent to school in England just after the war at age twelve and took one of these from Cape Town to Southampton apparently on his own though I suspect he had some sort of champerone. Ten years later it was flying boats for a short time which took a week's travel.

    Very cool. I'd loved to have traveled in a flying boat. Sea otter is the closest I've been. Also very cool.


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    #1746
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    I suppose flying boats are kind of on topic as they used harbours, bays and lakes, so...

    Typical route for Imperial Airways/BOAC, probably on a Short Solent, 1948-50:
    Southampton
    Marseilles
    Rome
    Brindisi
    Athens
    Alex
    Khartoom
    Kampala
    Nairobi
    Mebya/Lake Nyasa
    Livingstone/Victoria Falls
    Joburg
    Cape Town

    Over ~4/5 days, no night flying and poor weather forecasting must have made it not always pleasant.

    Also, once the plane went tech in Nairobi and had to wait a week for spares. Luckily on that occasion, my then teenage dad knew some one on the flight from Nairobi so got put up with no problems.


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    #1747
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,762 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    My father was in the Fleet Air Arm and was stationed in various places in North Africa, lol; join the Navy and get stationed in the desert; flying fighter cover for convoys in the Med. He mentions being a passenger on flying boats and the routes they took several times in his memoir. On one of those flying boat trips to get back to the UK, he mentions it landed at Foynes, on the Shannon estuary. I'm sure the Irish government was aware that some of the young men onboard, didn't always wear civilian clothing.

    To get to Cairo, he had to go to Scotland and board a troop ship which was part of a fast convoy which had a protective screen of a cruiser and destroyers. The convoy headed west, zig-zagging to avoid U-boats, for a considerable distance, before turning south. Being a naval officer, he and his compatriots shared duties on the ship, a liner. He mentions being on duty and among those stationed to keep a look-out as they neared the coast of Africa, when they were attacked off Dakar, Senegal (French colony=enemy) by twin engined aircraft out of the sun, but the attack was unsuccessful. They made port of call at various places as the convoy proceeded around the continent to Suez, passing Cape Horn.

    He mentions the equator crossing ceremony was organised by James Robertson Justice, the actor. He also mentioned that among the officers were a Mr Cadbury and a Mr Walker and that there was no shortage of either chocolate or whiskey :-) Oh yes, and the then McGillycuddy of the Reeks was among them.

    It's his photos I have posted.


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    #1748
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Stena's vision for ferries of the future.

    Stena-Line-electric-ferry.jpg

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    #1749
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,473 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    ^^
    I thought X-bow was to be the future of efficiency and wave handling?


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    #1750
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,430 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ^^
    I thought X-bow was to be the future of efficiency and wave handling?

    Not very high speed though ? ( Well it's faster in rough seas )

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #1751
    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    If that's going on the Rosslare run, I'll go back to Stena from Irish ferries. :D


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    #1752
    Thargor
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    Is that a solar farm on the upper deck? Panoramic viewing area on the bow aswell would be nice.


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    #1753
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,762 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Thargor wrote: »
    Is that a solar farm on the upper deck? Panoramic viewing area on the bow aswell would be nice.

    If it is, it wouldn't move such a ship 10 meters in a day. I was reading about a greatly innovative lithium battery powered ferry some do-gooder borgs came up with and were hugely pleased about. It just seemed so impractical.


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    #1754
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,529 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Thargor wrote: »
    I like how they throw the ropes down in a hurry at the end like it was going to go anywhere:


    Those beaches must be serious shore dump ones with serious deep sea floor inclines.


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    #1755
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,473 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    You guys might notice something a little off about this???
    :)


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    #1756
    inforfun
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,862 Mod ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Ooopsss

    https://www.dumpert.nl/item/7942017_ea875cee


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    #1757
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    You guys might notice something a little off about this???
    :)


    518581.jpg
    Happy days sailing out of Rosslare with IF.


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    #1758
    dogmatix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    According to wiki, she is the MV Kaitaki, but originally the Irish Ferries Isle of Inisfree. Not a young ship anymore, dating from 1995. That would have been an interesting journey, sailing from Europe to New Zealand.


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    #1759
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,762 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    dogmatix wrote: »
    According to wiki, she is the MV Kaitaki, but originally the Irish Ferries Isle of Inisfree. Not a young ship anymore, dating from 1995. That would have been an interesting journey, sailing from Europe to New Zealand.

    Yeah, try that on Li-ion f'n batteries!


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    #1760
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Superyacht Rev nearing completion.

    REV-update-1.jpg


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    #1761
    Storm 10
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    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Superyacht Rev nearing completion.

    REV-update-1.jpg

    Looks more like a research ship than a super yacht or even a Coastguard ship.


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    #1762
    ILikeBoats
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    I'd say it's an explorer yacht.

    Like Ulysses, Octopus etc.


    https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/the-register/top-20-explorer-yachts--25047


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    #1763
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,762 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    That got me to wondering what Lauren Jobs did with Steve's Philippe Starck designed Venus $100 M yacht.

    openhouse-barcelona-shop-gallery-magazine-boat-feadship-square-sailing-venus-yacht-design-steve-jobs-philippe-starck-2.jpg

    As far as I can ascertain, she had the great sense to not sell it and is probably enjoying it to the full. It seems to have recently traveled from the Bahamas to Gibralta and is currently in Palma, Spain. I'd live on it permanently and do that sort of thing if I owned it too.

    Tough life for some. :)


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    #1764
    dogmatix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭dogmatix


    cnocbui wrote: »
    That got me to wondering what Lauren Jobs did with Steve's Philippe Starck designed Venus $100 M yacht.

    openhouse-barcelona-shop-gallery-magazine-boat-feadship-square-sailing-venus-yacht-design-steve-jobs-philippe-starck-2.jpg

    As far as I can ascertain, she had the great sense to not sell it and is probably enjoying it to the full. It seems to have recently traveled from the Bahamas to Gibralta and is currently in Palma, Spain. I'd live on it permanently and do that sort of thing if I owned it too.

    Tough life for some. :)

    Super luxurious no doubt, but God almighty it is ugly. It looks like a huge house boat. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.


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    #1765
    Tabnabs
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    An "excursion steamer" on the river Hudson.

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    #1766
    Tabnabs
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    The Queen Mary in New York in 1948

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    #1767
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,762 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    dogmatix wrote: »
    Super luxurious no doubt, but God almighty it is ugly. It looks like a huge house boat. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

    It has grown on me. It think the upper profile and thickness and degree of overhang of the pagoda 'roofs' are what spoil it.


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    #1768
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    It looks like a design concept thats unfinished.


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    #1769
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Video of Venus here in this link in St Marteen scroll forward to around 2 minutes, see the crew closing the rear ramp when they are filming so no look in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOYIQ8V6C8


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    #1770
    roundymac
    Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    I glad Steve Jobs(RIP) knew about computers because he knew eff all about designing ships.


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    #1771
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,022 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    He really didn't know anything about computers either, Woz was the tech guy...

    Life ain't always empty.



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