River Thames: Verdi
Taken on 15 August 2017 and uploaded 4 January 2025.
An oil/chemical tanker, Verdi, sailing up the River Thames, exiting Lower Hope.
I often speculate about the names ships have: sometimes they appear to have completely inexplicable names (Morning Prosperity on a slab-like car carrier)...or they may be personal, perhaps a family member.
'Verdi' may be a name, or the colour green...which it surely can't be, as green is the opposite colour to red, which this ship seems to be, so unless whoever named it was 'avin' a laff, it can't be that. But it would be fun.
Perhaps the ship is named after the composer, Guiseppe Verdi ? Verdi composed what is the most sexy song (well, 'aria' if you're being precious) ever, 'Stride la vampa', so why not ?
I once had a 'discussion' with an opera snob who insisted opera was 'high culture' and better than, say, Eastenders. I offered the opinion that 'Il Trovatore' had a plot stupider than anything Eastenders or even Crossroads attempted and was written by a man whose name translated as Joe Green...I mean...
Anyway, Verdi now sails as Liza E (who ?...blah blah blah) and is on its way from Limas, Turkiye, to Temryuk, Russia. It was built in 1999 in Czechia.
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River Thames: Verdi
Taken on 15 August 2017 and uploaded 4 January 2025.
An oil/chemical tanker, Verdi, sailing up the River Thames, exiting Lower Hope.
I often speculate about the names ships have: sometimes they appear to have completely inexplicable names (Morning Prosperity on a slab-like car carrier)...or they may be personal, perhaps a family member.
'Verdi' may be a name, or the colour green...which it surely can't be, as green is the opposite colour to red, which this ship seems to be, so unless whoever named it was 'avin' a laff, it can't be that. But it would be fun.
Perhaps the ship is named after the composer, Guiseppe Verdi ? Verdi composed what is the most sexy song (well, 'aria' if you're being precious) ever, 'Stride la vampa', so why not ?
I once had a 'discussion' with an opera snob who insisted opera was 'high culture' and better than, say, Eastenders. I offered the opinion that 'Il Trovatore' had a plot stupider than anything Eastenders or even Crossroads attempted and was written by a man whose name translated as Joe Green...I mean...
Anyway, Verdi now sails as Liza E (who ?...blah blah blah) and is on its way from Limas, Turkiye, to Temryuk, Russia. It was built in 1999 in Czechia.
[DSC_9865f]