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Meet 'Vera', a tank in the D-Day Museum. Some info from the website:
A Sherman Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV), nicknamed 'Vera', War Department No. T145523. The BARV was a converted Sherman Mk.III, M4A2 tank. This particular tank was originally built in 1943 as a regular gun tank. Markings on the hull suggest that its parts were produced in a modular fashion by several different companies and then assembled together. It was produced with "LO", a type of steel particulary adapted to cast large pieces of armor. The tank was assembled at Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio as part of contract S/M 1012 for the British Government. The hull (part number E4151) was built by American Steel Foundries East St. Louis (Illinois) Works, and the bogies were made by several companies including the Continental Foundry & Machine Company of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. It's exact wartime history is not known, but it is known that a relatively small number of BARVs were converted. It has been given the markings of a beach recovery section of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
D&H 2309 leads a Westbound near MP361 in Portageville, NY on October 8, 1982. Note the double track, the Southern Tier Line was double track from Portageville to Binghamton at the time.
D-ABVX - Boeing B-747-430 - Lufthansa
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 29.869 - built in 1999
With her replica D-Day black & white 'Invasion stripes' prominent against her drab overall green paint scheme, Douglas Dakota ZA947 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight slides past Beachy Head as she exits the AIRbourne Airshow area and heads back to her temporary weekend base at Biggin Hill.
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D-ABVM - Boeing B-747-430 - Lufthansa
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 29.101 - built in 1998
La Ca' d'Oro è un noto palazzo di Venezia, situato nel sestiere di Cannaregio e affacciato sul Canal Grande, la cui denominazione deriva dal fatto che in origine alcune parti della facciata erano ricoperte d'oro, rifinitura che faceva parte di una complessa policromia, oggi scomparsa, ritenuta uno dei massimi esempi del gotico fiorito veneziano. Dal 1927 è adibito a museo come sede della Galleria Franchetti
Réserve ornithologique du Teich - Bassin d'Arcachon
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D-3502 | Adornada con motivos navideños , al mando del Tren del Acido pasando por el Sector de Rinconada de Paine con destino Los Lirios .
... Nous savons tous que ce mois est celui de la pluie... et chacun y va de son style pour l'affronter... C'est en sortant d'une grande surface « La Baie » que j'ai vu celle-ci devant moi qui traversait pour se rendre au Marché By ... Encore une fois... j"étais heureux d'avoir mon appareil en mains...
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This was a re-visit to my first ever Asylum . Its nice to see this place being looked after at last and one day i hope to see the place converted and saved from rubble
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Initialement, je voulais photographier les nombreux "hélicoptères", qui sont en fait les fruits de certaines espèces d'arbres, qui jonchait le sol sous l'érable derrière ma maison. Je n'ai pas vraiment réussi à capturer l'image que je voulais, mais j'ai tout de même remarquer cet appareil qui a dû se poser d'urgence sur les branches d'un sapin pas très loin. J'aime cette photo pour plusieurs raisons. Premièrement les détails sont impressionnants, on dirait presque les aiguilles du sapin agissent comme un piège et saisissent des objets au vol. Les parties floues de l'image, autrement appelées "bokeh", mettent en évidence le sujet et se marient très bien au ton vert de l'ensemble.
Built in Bergen 1904.
Pre war history: Delivered in Sept.-1904 from Bergens Mek. Værksted, Solheimsviken, Bergen as Stavenes to Nordre Bergenhus Amts Dampskibe, Bergen. Steel hull reinforced for travel through ice, rounded bow, 104,6’ x 20,1’ x 9,8’, 181 gt, Tripple Expansion 49nhk 237ihk. Used in regularly scheduled service in Dalsfjord and Førdesfjord in Sunnfjord, occasionally in Nordfjord and around Florø. During the wintertime in the period 1904-1909 she carried mail Gudvangen-Lærdal in inner Sogn. In regularly scheduled service Florø-Måløy-Nordfjordeid-Sandane, summer of 1912. On Jan. 25-1919 the owning company changed its name to Fylkesbaatane i Sogn & Fjordane, Bergen. Rebuilt in 1934; could now carry 7-8 cars and at the same time she got electricity and a covered wheelhouse. Used as ferry Lærdal-Vadheim in inner Sogn every summer.
POST WAR: For several years after the war Stavenes was in the tourist trade Flåm-Balestrand-Fjærland in the summertime, then in service Lustrafjorden-Årdal and Flåm-Gudvangen in the wintertime. Rebuilt at Frydenbø Slip & Mek. Verksted, Damsgård in Bergen, spring 1954. Converted to motor vessel with a 6cyl 2tev Weddop 300bhk (1942), 10 knots, then in 1957 with a 2tev Normo dm 350bhk (1957). Ran aground on Dec. 23-1958 near Ortnevik in Sogn, refloated herself, no damages. Later placed in the local Bergen-Gulen-Solund-Hyllestad route in outer Sogn. Ran aground in Nov.-1960 south of Bakkastraumen in Nordhordland county. The floating library vessel Abdullah took the passengers to Bergen. Refloated by salvage vessel Salvator the next morning. Laid up at some point in the 1960's, then in the summer of 1969 she was hired out (with some adjustments) for use in the film "Song of Norway", filmed in Gudvangen, Aurland, Olden and Geiranger, then laid up again. Sold in Dec.-1972 to J. Graham Kew, Rugby for use as a yacht. Not long afterwards she visited western Norway with the American Jeffrey A. Hoffmann as skipper, later astronaut for NASA.
Following the death of her owner she was laid up at Grimsby for 3 years and fell into a bad state of repair. Taken over at some point in the 1970's by The Monks Ferry Training Trust, Birkenhead. Placed in drydock in Port Penryth, northern Wales with the intent of fixing her up using unemployed workers. All interior was removed and some alterations made before the project stranded and she continued to fall into bad state of repair. After a while the dock was to be torn down so Stavenes had to be removed. A politician in Liverpool helped prevent her from being broken up.
In Jan.-1990 Sigmund and Jarle Lomelde from Sogn went to England to see if she could be preserved, then in Oct. that year she was also examined by people from Fylkesbaatane and from Sogndal Utviklingsselskap. Taken over by Veteranskipslaget Stavenes, Kaupanger in May-1991 for restoration back to her 1930's appearance, and towed from Liverpool to Solund that same month. That summer a new deck was installed and her diesel engine removed, laid up in Kaupanger where she sank in the winter of 1994 due to large amounts of snow. Raised, a temporary roof installed across her entire length. In 1998 the owners purchased a suitable steam engine from a condemned Swedish tug (engine was built in Jönköping in 1893). Additionally, a suitable boiler was obtained from Måløy Sildoljefabrikk (herring oil factory). In 200o she was still laid up in Kinsedal, Lustrafjord.
(All details on this vessel received from T. Eriksen, Norway - his sources: "Fjordabåten" by Dag Bakka Jr., 1994, "Bergenske Fjordabåter" Dag Bakka Jr. for Bergens Tidende, 1974 and "101 Fjordabåtar, FSF 1858-2000" by Magnus Helge Torvanger 2000).