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The SS Peagus is a 1950s Tudor Rose tugboat. Bought for me by my grandmother in the early 1990s it has travelled with me wherever there was a pool. It has sailed to the USA, Ghana and most recently Cyprus. It has quite a high sentimental value attached, considering it must have been bought for about £3.99!
A custom Nazi sniper, with printed CitizenBrick splinter camo helmet, and Brickarms USMC Springfield hand-painted by myself. This was before the scoped Kar-98 was available, so I improvised :)
tepatitlán, mexico
1976
circo osorio, touring circus
(slide 04 of 16)
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Canadian Pacific Railway (Great Lakes service) steamer Keewatin passing the sleeping giant on its journey east from the Lakehead, Ontario, Canada.
As a collector of Railway and Steamship postcards of Ontario, this is one of my favorite. Several years ago I had interviewed postcard publisher Harry Oakman, and I remarked on this picture. Mr. Oakman had been flying in north-western Ontario taking pictures of motels etc. for his Peterborough Post Card Co. Returning home, Mr Oakman stopped for fuel at Thunder Bay airport, as he was leaving he'd noticed this ship had just backed out of its slip at the Fort William CPR wharf, he then circled around to capture this scene with the sleeping giant in the background. Great work Mr. Oakman.
The Keewatin, was withdrawn from service in 1965 and now over 100 years old, the ship serves as a floating museum in Saugatuck, Michigan.
Shot on the SS Rotterdam--once a cruise ship, now a hotel / museum. The Euromast is visible on the left hand side. Processed in Lightroom 4.1 only; blues were somewhat darkened and the perspective was corrected.
SS Great Britain passenger steamship museum ship.
Built and designed by isambard kingdom brunel
Taken with an Iphone 6
SS-Obersturmführer Jakob Halbgewachs, SS nr 421 045. He was listed as Sturmmann in 14/Pz.Gr.3 "Deutschland" in may 1940 and as a Obersturmführer in SS-WVHA Amt W V in november 1943 and ended the war with regiment "Deutschland", 2.SS-Panzer Division Das Reich. Public Domain.
Freighter 'SS Espa' at Grimsby Docks, c.July 1963. Unfortunatey, I can't find any details of htis ship apart from the fact that it was Finnnish. Scanned print taken with a Halina 35X Super.
Steamship SS Dicky which was washed ashore in 1893 during a cyclone with a crew of 11 and 40 tonnes of Sand. Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out. SS Dicky is a photographic delight! The skeleton rests on a 800m long pristine beach stretch extending from low rocks at the northern end to a bluff and rock platform at the southern end.
The Aberdeen White Star Line triple screw steamer 'Demonthenes', as it appeared in the February 1911 issue of Railway & Travel Monthly. Built by Harland & Wolff in 1911, it was used on the route to Australia via South Africa. The ship was scrapped in 1931. The artist is Henry Branston Freer.
SS United States was commissioned in 1952 she was in service till 1969 and finally docked in Philadelphia PA in 1996. She holds the Blue Riband for fastest crossing of the Atlantic to this day. America's Flagship
When the tide goes out at Berrow, near Burnham-On-Sea, the bones of a long dead ship stick out of the sands as a stark reminder of a savage gale and a gallant rescue at the end of the nineteenth century.
It all started during the first days of March 1897 when a howling south westerly gale swept up the Bristol Channel, bringing with it high seas, driving snow and sleet.
Many ships soon found themselves in distress, among them the Norwegian barque SS Nornen which had tried out to ride out the storm in the lee of the Lundy Roads but had found her anchors dragging. She was being driven towards Berrow mud flats. The crew desperately tied to save her, but were fighting a losing cause.
When the mists cleared on the morning of March 3rd, the crippled ship was spotted just off Gore Sands, her sails blown to rags by the gale. Down the ramp to her aid went the Burnham lifeboat, the John Godfrey Morris, which had been on station at the town for the last ten years.
Launched down the rails on the jetty, the lifeboat with its crew of ten oarsmen battled through high seas and winds to the SS Nornen. Despite the gale, the lifeboat managed to get alongside the helpless ship, just as she was being driven onto the sands.
The ship's crew of ten, together with their dog, were taken off by the lifeboat and landed safely at Burnham at three o'clock in the afternoon. The rescue is recorded on the honours board of rescues made by the three lifeboats at Burnham during the period from 1867 to 1930 and which today stands in the entrance to the Burnham RNLI Station.
After the rescue, the sea pounded and smashed the ship and although attempts were made to lighten and refloat her, she was finally sold as a wreck.
The SS United States taken from the nearby IKEA parking lot at dusk. The SS United States is still the largest passenger ship built in America and holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by ship.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Day seven. Luckily we made it time to check in before 11pm. We arrived at 10:58. Today we are taking a look around Bristol harbour area before making our way to Wales. We had a few heavy showers.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the time of 14 days.
The ship is 322 ft (98 m) in length and has a 3,400-ton displacement. She was powered by two inclined 2 cylinder engines of the direct-acting type, with twin high pressure cylinders (diameter uncertain) and twin low pressure cylinders 88 in (220 cm) bore, all of 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke cylinders. She was also provided with secondary masts for sail power. The four decks provided accommodation for a crew of 120, plus 360 passengers who were provided with cabins, and dining and promenade saloons.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat. But her protracted construction time of six years (1839–1845) and high cost had left her owners in a difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846, having spent all their remaining funds refloating the ship after she ran aground at Dundrum Bay in County Down near Newcastle in what is now Northern Ireland, after a navigation error. In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired. Great Britain later carried thousands of immigrants to Australia from 1852 until being converted to all-sail in 1881. Three years later, she was retired to the Falkland Islands, where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until she was scuttled and sunk in 1937, 98 years since being laid down at the start of her construction.
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