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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs




  • Registered Users Posts: 27,381 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    They need to do a Mighty Ships episode for Boka Vanguard if they haven't already. Awesome.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Long before colour-sensitive films were invented, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky used to take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (Red, Green, Blue) to create high-quality pictures in full colour.

    A few maritime related photographs from his collection, taken in or before 1909.

    20922v.jpg
    Title: Fire alarm on steamboat Sheksna. [Russian Empire]

    20955v.jpg
    Title Translation: Crew of the steamship "Sheksna" of the M.P.S. [Ministry of Communication and Transportation]. [Russian Empire]

    21018v.jpg
    Title Translation: Stone-excavating machine of the single scoop type Svirskaia no. 2. [Russian Empire]

    20908v.jpg
    Title Translation: Stone-excavating machine of the multi-scoop type "Svirskaia pervaia." [Russian Empire]

    21029v.jpg
    Title Translation: On the deckhouse of the steamboat "Sheksna" of the M.P.S. [Ministry of Communication and Transportation]. [Russian Empire]

    21011v.jpg
    Title Translation: Small town of Vokhnovo. Reinforced embankment. [Russian Empire]

    20985v.jpg
    Title Translation: Flat-bottomed canal boat. [Russian Empire]

    His full collection is archived here https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok


  • Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭thebiggestjim


    Tabnabs wrote: »

    This is amazing. Can someone explain why you would dry dock a cruise ship on this vessel and they bring the cruise ship to a dry dock? Why not sail it directly to the dry dock? If the cruise ship is damaged and not fit to be towed perhaps?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    This is amazing. Can someone explain why you would dry dock a cruise ship on this vessel and they bring the cruise ship to a dry dock? Why not sail it directly to the dry dock? If the cruise ship is damaged and not fit to be towed perhaps?

    In April 2019 the usual dry dock was damaged after a crane collapsed on the Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, with both the ship and dry dock damaged. As a result, other ships including Carnival Vista have been unable to use the dry dock until it is repaired.
    On 13 July at sunrise Boskalis lifted cruise ship Carnival Vista out of the water onto its semi-submersible heavy lift vessel BOKA Vanguard and transported it to Grand Bahama Shipyard for a unique dry docking operation that will take place in the following weeks in Freeport, Bahamas. Whilst the cruise ship is resting on the BOKA Vanguard the repairs will take place. Upon completion of these repairs, Carnival Vista will be offloaded in time for its next scheduled cruise voyage from Galveston in Texas on 27 July. Read more about the project in the press releases below.
    https://www.boskalis.com/vista/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭nokiatom


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Long before colour-sensitive films were invented, Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky used to take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (Red, Green, Blue) to create high-quality pictures in full colour.

    A few maritime related photographs from his collection, taken in or before 1909.

    20922v.jpg
    Title: Fire alarm on steamboat Sheksna. [Russian Empire]

    20955v.jpg
    Title Translation: Crew of the steamship "Sheksna" of the M.P.S. [Ministry of Communication and Transportation]. [Russian Empire]

    21018v.jpg
    Title Translation: Stone-excavating machine of the single scoop type Svirskaia no. 2. [Russian Empire]

    20908v.jpg
    Title Translation: Stone-excavating machine of the multi-scoop type "Svirskaia pervaia." [Russian Empire]

    21029v.jpg
    Title Translation: On the deckhouse of the steamboat "Sheksna" of the M.P.S. [Ministry of Communication and Transportation]. [Russian Empire]

    21011v.jpg
    Title Translation: Small town of Vokhnovo. Reinforced embankment. [Russian Empire]

    20985v.jpg
    Title Translation: Flat-bottomed canal boat. [Russian Empire]

    His full collection is archived here https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok

    First one doesn't look over a hundred years old




  • This is amazing. Can someone explain why you would dry dock a cruise ship on this vessel and they bring the cruise ship to a dry dock? Why not sail it directly to the dry dock? If the cruise ship is damaged and not fit to be towed perhaps?

    Probably because you can start working on repairs while travelling and save time before reaching drydock.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    nokiatom wrote: »
    First one doesn't look over a hundred years old

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    The final voyage of a grand old lady.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,848 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Probably a lot more of that to come in the next couple of years.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    So obsolete ships are brought to this graveyard.
    Where is it? Bangladesh or somewhere?
    Do the owners pay to put the ship there?
    Is it a company that strips the ships?
    Is the metal sold for scrap or recycled?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    ILikeBoats wrote: »
    So obsolete ships are brought to this graveyard.
    Where is it? Bangladesh or somewhere?
    Do the owners pay to put the ship there?
    Is it a company that strips the ships?
    Is the metal sold for scrap or recycled?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,371 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Tabnabs wrote: »


    Always thought the yards look fascinating from satellite view

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@21.3999764,72.1748449,4064m/data=!3m1!1e3

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@38.8290299,26.9256465,1750m/data=!3m1!1e3



    You can see some of the salvaged equipment on streetview
    https://www.google.ie/maps/@38.8202049,26.9281675,3a,75y,316.13h,87.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_UIX4b67BIg4R6FFEeVDDg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    @Tabnabs @blackwhite Very interesting, thanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,795 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    You would think from an efficiency point of view the very shipyards that assembled the ships new would make best facilities to scrap them, I suppose the wage costs and environmental standards are much lower in Turkey and Bangladesh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,547 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    ILikeBoats wrote: »
    So obsolete ships are brought to this graveyard.
    Where is it? Bangladesh or somewhere?
    Do the owners pay to put the ship there?
    Is it a company that strips the ships?
    Is the metal sold for scrap or recycled?

    scrap value of vessels runs into the millions depending on the size, most owners depreciate the assets down to the scrap value rather than 0.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    COVID19 restriction in Canada vs the USA (Niagara falls tourist boats)

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    ^^ That belongs in YLYL


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    blackwhite wrote: »

    Wonder if they would have a job getting rid of all the Lifeboats judging by what's in google earth. I'm sure you could find a few good ones.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Worlds largest icebreaker and twin reactors generating a combined 350 megawatts (470,000 horsepower!) has finally been launched in Russia.

    Arktika-icebreaker-credit-Anton-Haas.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Worlds largest icebreaker and twin reactors generating a combined 350 megawatts (470,000 horsepower!) has finally been launched in Russia.

    Arktika-icebreaker-credit-Anton-Haas.jpg

    Need to fire the panel beater left a lot of dents in the hull !!!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,795 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    I remember Charlie Bird did a documentary going to the Arctic on this nuclear icebreaker, definitely one for the bucket list...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Let_Pobedy
    http://ctlfilms.com/productions-all/charlie-birds-arctic-journey.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    He went for a swim IIRC.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,905 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Russia is going all in on Icebreakers, the Arktika is one of 5 sisterships and there are even bigger ones coming.

    The US has only two 40 year old heavy icebreakers and one of them was recently retired.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,587 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Whats Russias plan with all these icebreakers, to open up a new shipping route in the Arctic so the Suez canal can be bypassed? And would it be possible to keep Arctic shipping lanes open year round or only in summer when the ice recedes?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Ice for Vodka.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭Trouser Snake


    If i had it, I most definitely would!


  • Registered Users Posts: 999 ✭✭✭thomil


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Whats Russias plan with all these icebreakers, to open up a new shipping route in the Arctic so the Suez canal can be bypassed? And would it be possible to keep Arctic shipping lanes open year round or only in summer when the ice recedes?

    There are a number of very promising resource deposits in the Russian and Siberian Arctic and those sites are usually only accessible via air or sea, having a fleet of Icebreakers makes it easier for Russia to reach and exploit those sites, since building a road through hundreds of kilometres of tundra, while possible, would in all likelihood be pretty expensive.

    There's also a second aspect, the ability for Russian naval units to be quickly relocated from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet and vice versa. Transfers from the Baltic or Black Sea Fleets to the Northern Fleet are possible up to a certain size due to the massive canal system built under Stalin, however at the moment, any relocations say between Severomorsk and Vladivostok require a transit through several western/NATO controlled choke points, such as the Strait of Gibraltar or the Suez Canal, the Malacca Strait and so on. A passage along the Siberian coast may not be possible year round quite yet, but with climate change continuing the way it is, it may soon be, at least with the help of those icebreakers.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭ Kynlee Bewildered Necktie


    No picture as it’s too far offshore, but can currently see heavy load carrier vessel Xiang Yun Kou from the Louth / Meath coast right now. Not sure what she’s carrying (something tall) but nice to see something unusual here.


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