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If you click, "All Sizes" above the photo and view this large, you can see many signatures on the right-most blade. Talk about neat stuff you can find with your camera!
I saw this fenced propeller while walking to the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool, England, but had no idea what it was or why it would be there. Approaching it, I saw a sign that identified it as one of the propellers from the RMS Lusitania. I was mesmerized by what I saw, and spent about 5 minutes beside it. I don't think that anyone else came by to see it during the time that I was there.
A sign beside the propeller reads as follows:
"This propeller was one of four from the Liverpool based passenger liner RMS Lusitania (1907). She sailed between Liverpool and New York until she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915 with the loss of 1,201 lives. Lusitania and her sister ship Mauretania were owned by Liverpool's Cunard Line and carried passengers and mail on regular services to the USA. Lusitania held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger vessel, making the journey in under 4.5 days. This propeller was fitted in 1909 to improve her speed*.
Lusitania continued her transatlantic run after the outbreak of World War I until she was torpedoed and sank in under twenty minutes, off the coast of southern Ireland. People were outraged by the deliberate targeting of a passenger ship and Lusitania's fate still causes controversy today."
*Lusitania originally had three-bladed propellers, per the sign.
The following information appears on the website of the nearby Merseyside Maritime Museum:
"This 15 ton, four-bladed propeller is one of four which drove the Cunard liner Lusitania across the Atlantic on her tragic final voyage in May 1915. It was the most complete of the three salvaged from the wreck off Southern Ireland in 1982 and was purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1989. The propeller has been displayed on the museum’s historic quaysides ever since. Each year on 7 May, the anniversary of the sinking of the ship by the German submarine U-20**, a service of commemoration is held at the propeller for the 1200 victims of this incident."
**I've read elsewhere that the U-20 was used to sink 36 other ships. In 1916, it went aground after sustaining engine damage, and was destroyed by its crew.
The light of the setting sun brought a golden glow to the propeller of a fishing boat that was being repaired in Yarmouth. The photo has been copied and mirrored to create this symmetrical image.
A refold of my older design, Stacked Propellers Tessellation. There is a similar pattern designed by Ilan Garibi, called Bagan or Pagodas.
This shows one of the four bladed propellers of the Mauretania, manufactured by Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Limited (as can be seen on one of the blades to the right).
The Mauretania was built by the shipbuilders Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, at the Wallsend shipyard and was one of the most famous ships ever built on Tyneside
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Another view of my Stacked Propellers Tessellation refold. There is similar pattern designed by Ilan Garibi, called Bagan or Pagodas.
Propeller wasn't even conceived at first as I had already a design using propellers (Doll Copter, though I doubt I'll ever build her as it's too big), but this month the Flickr Lego community was filled with a lot of those ballon petal parts, due to several challenges as I discovered later. But back then I thought it was some kind of tendency and I wanted to join, so I came with the idea of using them as a ribbon. It was too gappy and simple though, but suddenly I thought of putting airscrews inside. From there, the build was very straight foward.
I really love when I got this kind of "sudden builds" right =D
The first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, was built across the river at Mare Island, California. This memorial propeller sits on the waterfront in Vallejo, California.
Most of the early nuclear-powered submarines were built here at Mare Island, across the river from Vallejo. The Nautilus was the first submarine to travel under the North Pole.
Came across this ship propeller in Malmo and from the right angle reminded me of a 50's B-Film of a Martian invasion.
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This 15 ton, four-bladed propeller is one of four which drove the Cunard liner Lusitania across the Atlantic on her tragic final voyage in May 1915.
It was the most complete of the three salvaged from the wreck off Southern Ireland in 1982 and was purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1989. The propeller has been displayed on the museum’s historic quaysides ever since.
Each year on 7 May, the anniversary of the sinking of the ship by the German submarine U-20, a service of commemoration is held at the propeller for the 1191 victims of this incident.
Taken in 2014.
A row of large propellers at the Gloucester Marine Railway boatyard in Gloucester, on Boston's North Shore.
Whatever time of year you come to Montenegro, the first thing you must pay attention - an abundance of flowering plants. Blossoms everything, at any time of the year, all kinds of flowers.
The man who appreciates the beauty of nature and the world is much richer and happier than those who do not notice this.
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Messerschmitt Kabinenroller KR200 in the Technikmuseum Sinsheim.
This Kabinenroller is powered by a huge propeller and with the skids it can drive on frozen lakes and snow tracks.