I like Ships too

[trysail]

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/553e8f6f6da8110c77fbe2e6-1200-924/littoral-combat-ship-7.jpg


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[trysail]

Ship that helped saved 7 in 'The Perfect Storm' to be sunk

Oct. 24, 2016
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5f6d...a21/ship-helped-saved-7-perfect-storm-be-sunk

CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. (AP) — A ship that once towed warships to safety during World War II and battled 40-foot waves to help rescue seven people in what was portrayed in the book and film "The Perfect Storm" is poised to be sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

Officials tell The Record newspaper (http://******/2eAJT9D ) the Coast Guard vessel Tamaroa will help grow a reef near Cape May Point by drawing large game fish and boosting recreational fishing.

The sinking is planned around Oct. 30, the 25th anniversary of the 1991 storm in which the Tamaroa helped rescue the crew of a sailboat and a downed Air National Guard helicopter near Massachusetts.

Efforts to convert the ship into a museum and memorial ended in 2012 after its hull sprung a leak.


http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5f6d...a21/ship-helped-saved-7-perfect-storm-be-sunk

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[thør]

The sinking is planned around Oct. 30, the 25th anniversary of the 1991 storm in which the Tamaroa helped rescue the crew of a sailboat and a downed Air National Guard helicopter near Massachusetts.

The owner of that Westsail did not figure he needed to be rescued.

 

[CaptJTH]

A shame to lose that piece of history.

 

[Hard_Rom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813)

HMS Terror was a bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of the War of 1812, including the bombardment of Fort McHenry. Later converted into a polar exploration ship, she participated in George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the Ross expedition of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John Franklin's ill-fated attempt to force the Northwest Passage in 1845, during which she was lost with all hands along with HMS Erebus.

On 12 September 2016, the Arctic Research Foundation announced that the wreck of Terror had been found in Nunavut's Terror Bay, off the southwest coast of King William Island. The wreck was discovered 92 km (57 mi) south of the location where the ship was reported abandoned, and some 50 km (31 mi) from the wreck of HMS Erebus, discovered in 2014.

Erebus ship's bell
http://www.metronews.ca/content/dam/thestar/2014/11/06/jdt110227564_20141106151411.jpg

 

[trysail]

HMS Terror From Doomed Franklin Expedition Believed Found in Arctic


https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/franklin_find_map.jpg

by Anthony Watts

...Sammy Kogvik, an Inuk from Gjoa Haven who was aboard the Arctic Research Foundation’s research vessel Martin Bergmann as a crewmember, played a key role in the discovery when he told Schimnowski that about six years ago, he and a friend had spotted what looked like a mast sticking out of sea ice covering Terror Bay.

“In a phone interview,” the Guardian says, “Kogvik said he stopped that day to get a few snapshots of himself hugging the wooden object, only to discover when he got home that the camera had fallen out his pocket. Kogvik resolved to keep the encounter secret, fearing the missing camera was an omen of bad spirits, which generations of Inuit have believed began to wander King William Island after Franklin and his men perished. When Schimnowski heard Kogvik’s story, he didn’t dismiss it, as Inuit testimony has been so often during the long search for Franklin’s ships. Instead, the Bergmann’s crew agreed to make a detour for Terror Bay on their way to join the main search group aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Royal Canadian Navy’s HMCS Shawinigan, at the north end of Victoria Strait.”


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[ryan8558]

What could have been

170 guns on 4 decks

 

[oggbashan]

What could have been

170 guns on 4 decks

Instead the Royal Navy eventually built HMS Warrior:

http://www.hmswarrior.org/

At the time she was the fastest battleship in the world, with the heaviest guns afloat and the strongest armour. For about two years she was effectively invincible - until the Royal Navy built better battleships and so did everyone else...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Russia's Dilapidated Aircraft Carrier Keeps Getting Banned From Ports

 

[ryan8558]

Russia's Dilapidated Aircraft Carrier Keeps Getting Banned From Ports

They have no way to UNREP?

That's pretty hard to believe for a blue water navy.

 

[thør]

http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/9/2/6/2389629.jpg

First LNG powered Ice Breaker.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Not a ship. A boat. Gato class

http://scaleshipyard.com/Images/Catalog%20Photos/Prototype%20Photos/Submarines/ss285.JPG

 

[ryan8558]

Balao class boat

http://mymemorialday.org/images/tang/mare-island-lb.jpg

 

[Hard_Rom]

A shame to lose that piece of history.

Sinking them for reefs is a whole lot better than having them cut up on a third world beach for scrap. I believe it may even be an honourable way to go for a ship.

 

[thør]

Sinking them for reefs is a whole lot better than having them cut up on a third world beach for scrap. I believe it may even be an honourable way to go for a ship.

You must have stock in Mary River Iron.

 

[JohnnySavage]

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/this-unusual-aerial-view-shows-11-vessels-of-submarine-squadron-five-picture-id517246052

 

[JohnnySavage]

http://www.submarinesailor.com/boats/324blenny/franktoon/marty2Abg.jpg

 

[JohnnySavage]

Delta Pier - Bangawhore, Washington

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/images/bangor_DELTA01.jpg

 

[JoanneA]

http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/9/2/6/2389629.jpg

First LNG powered Ice Breaker.

How do you know?

 

[trysail]

How do you know?

Finland.
LNG Icebreaker

It was widely reported by all the news services. Try an internet search.​

 

[ryan8558]

*right click on image*

search for image

 

[thør]

How do you know?

How do you know it's not?

 

[thør]

So, China is going to be anchoring a reactor that's a typical ship-size unit?

 

[trysail]

https://images.marinelink.com/images/maritime/w800h500/photo-ohpri-66749.jpg

New Milestones For America's Newest Tall Ship

...SSV Oliver Hazard Perry has been eight years in the making and was completed with $17 million in private funds. Named for U.S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the Rhode Island war hero who defeated the British in the battle of Lake Erie, she is the first oceangoing full-rigged ship to be built in America in over a hundred years. She is not a replica, but instead a modern, steel-hulled vessel purpose-built for training and education to the highest modern safety standards...


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[thør]

..........

How many cannon? What's the weight of her broadside?