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May be a benevolent eye, but Liz has her nose turned up. :haha:
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Leave her alone, her last Corgi just died.
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I've looked back at that thread several times and tried to follow what happened after.
The Ulysse is a roro (rollon-rolloff) ferry that also carries passengers. I have been unable to find out how many and also wonder why there are no people in the pics. |
I looked at one of the tracking sites yesterday and saw that the Ulysse was in a North African port.
The Virginia is apparently anchored off south east Greece although some of the information was contradictory. Please forgive lack of detail but I'm not presently on my PC and this iPad doesn't lend itself to researching the finer points of the internet. I wondered about the operation to part the two vessels and whether they were able to proceed under their own power. Presumably neither craft was holed beneath the waterline. |
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This is a bad time for RO/RO's.
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Excellent had a better outcome than Ulysse, but I think both captains may be looking for work.
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That animation shows a double tap, I think that's a glitch.
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An acquaintance of mine started his working life in the Merchant Navy so, when I saw him earlier this week, I asked had he seen reports of this incident.
A lack of lookout was the first thing he mentioned and it prompted him to relate the tale of a Greek tanker in the English Channel several decades ago. The ship was under way but there was no response to radio calls. It's an exceptionally busy area so the decision was made to board the vessel. The story goes that the bridge was unmanned and the only sign of life there was a dog. When the crew were eventually found they said there was no problem as the dog always barked when he saw another ship! True or not? You can decide that for yourself, but just bear in mind that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. ;) |
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That's pretty cool. :thumb2:
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Building a boy boat...
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A boyt?
Man, that boyt is hung! |
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Support Aircraft Carrier, I thought it might be one of those early cargo ship conversions but it was brand new.
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An awesome load of awesome airplanes!
The Wikipedia article on the Altamaha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Altamaha_(CVE-18) left me breathless at the travels and travails of this brave little ship and her crew. I wonder what a ship had to do to get TWO battle stars. The photo was taken on San Francisco Bay with more at Google images. Thanks Bruce. |
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Thanks, hoping for more comments.
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The Altamaha was laid down 19 December 1941, Launched: 22 May 1942, commissioned 15 September 1942.
That right there is a, "no fucking around, there's a war on" schedule. :eek: |
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Hey, that there's a carrier carrier.
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I wouldn't want to be in the turret when those guns go off...
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Too much top hamper, that's like swinging anvils from the mast head.
Too much weight to high up. and that tower has too much sail area, they need to take that monstrosity down and replace it with a cage mast for the radar and satellite domes. |
I think the idea is to make the radar profile smaller.
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So make your mast out of a non radar reflective material, like fiber glass.
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What is that, British and Australian flags?
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I didn't even see the aft flag...Looks like the Oz flag to me.
That black mast may be coated with the radar absorbing stuff they use/d on stealth planes and such. Also, radar can bounce off whatever it wants, so long as it don't bounce back the receiver, right? |
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Modern warships don't have a very deep draft (the portion below the waterline). The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence has a high superstructure and a light draft, and in a wind from the side she has trouble answering her helm. I have experienced this in Vancouver Bay BC. on our way home from Seattle. We had a beam wind from port and with the starboard propeller deep and the port propeller shallow she wouldn't turn rite or left. Because of the angle of heel she was carrying.
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What's that? A cruise? Why not?
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Popdigr used to work with a guy who served on the Enterprise.
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Guy name of Kirk by any chance?
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Guess he didn't wear a red shirt. ;)
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Can't blame him, they probably killed a lot of his buddies and tried to kill him. A lot of people take that shit personally.
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Yeah, my Uncle isn't good with Vietnamese. That isn't going to change 50 years in.
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During all the decades of the Vietnam Wars, there were Vietnamese who fought for independence and self-determination and those who partnered with the various foreign powers who controlled the country and profited from it.
It was the latter group that fled with us and now make up the range of American Vietnamese, from doctors and scientists to merchants to gang members. The first group are still seeking to realize the old goals. It has never been easy to know if there is a "better" one. |
Yes, Lola Bunny landed in CA at the age of 3. She has been well taught what life was like there but didn't experience much of it, so I think that makes it easier to accept what comes here.
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And they were not even holding a big camera like the photographer on the spit.
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Er, sprit.
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Flying Dutchman?
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Did Captain Nemo come ashore?
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No, he flushed it down the head wrapped in a Man-Sized Kleenex.
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Is that one of them there light-ships?
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That's an interesting picture.
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