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Ships
When it comes to being impressed by engineering, I have to confess that ships have always been pretty well down the list.
However Dad, being ex-Royal Navy, has always made a point of watching the Mighty Ships series on Quest TV (Discovery Lite) and I now realise how much more there is to ships than meets the eye. Consequently, the arrival of the cruise ship 'Harmony of the Seas' at Southampton this week, attracted my attention. The Daily Mail has its shortcomings but, credit where credit is due, they excel at photo features. Quote:
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05-19-2016, 01:55 PM | #2 |
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Yup, it's big.
I would not want to set foot on it though. Too many damn people. Almost 9k people? Gimme a cabin on a lake. That's much better. And much lest chance of Rotavirus. |
05-19-2016, 03:38 PM | #3 |
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Our Mr. Carruthers has a better pic of Harmony of the Seas than Wikipedia:
I wouldn't get on that boat...
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05-19-2016, 05:15 PM | #4 |
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I'd love to spend a day exploring the ship, if everybody else got off. It's fascinating from a design/build standpoint, but cruising doesn't appeal to me. That doesn't reflect poorly on people who dig that sort of thing, I can see the attraction, just not my bag. The comments at the Daily Mail were mostly negative except for some guy named Allen, defending it like an investor or travel agent.
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The place I live has a population of about nine thousand so it's equivalent to the max number of souls on board this ship. A cruise isn't something I'd volunteer for. At least I have some chance of escape here! As of five minutes ago it's still moored in Southampton. Ship Finder
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It's a marvel, and I'd love to explore it. I loved exploring the USS New Jersey with about 100 Boy Scouts a few years ago. Would have been different to be on that ship with 3,000 sailors. I'd be spending all my time just trying to get out of the way. |
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05-24-2016, 01:36 PM | #7 |
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Hey, Harmony of the Seas...
...Gotcher nose!
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06-03-2016, 03:40 PM | #9 |
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They're never as pretty before the make-up:
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Sailboat?
Airport for scale. New owner could catch SOME REALLY BIG AIR from that gnarly ramp, duuuuude.
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06-17-2016, 12:31 AM | #11 |
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US Battleships Missouri and Iowa off Korea in 1952...
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07-19-2016, 06:03 PM | #12 |
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We got some spare ships, see. We need to do something with them, see. Here's what we'll do, see. We'll beat the shit out of it after towing it out to sea, see.
Here, see: After the halfway point of the vid, it's just a camera circling the ship, documenting damage. The Mk-48 torpedo made a mark. Here's the story. Interesting how much damage the USS Thach took before finally giving up the ghost 12 hours later.
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08-25-2016, 01:43 PM | #13 |
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I'm guessing somebody got a big, Russian boot in they ass after this.
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08-25-2016, 07:56 PM | #14 |
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Cargo breaks loose from the transport ships all the time.
My first destroyer found floating cargo containers more than once. Sadly, we lacked a crane to recover them to see what was inside. |
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That cargo loss could have been prevented with the use of pipe stakes.
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