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The SS Lane Victory is a favorite filming location in the L.A. area when a Navy ship is required. Lots of films including Flags of Our Fathers, Black Ops, Sons of Anarchy, GI Jane, Pearl Harbor, and The Thin Red Line, have been filmed onboard this ship.
The SS Lane Victory is docked in San Pedro and is open to the public.
The SS Lane Victory is a favorite filming location in the L.A. area when a Navy ship is required. Lots of films including Flags of Our Fathers, Black Ops, Sons of Anarchy, GI Jane, Pearl Harbor, and The Thin Red Line, have been filmed onboard this ship.
The SS Lane Victory is docked in San Pedro and is open to the public.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 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.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat. However, her protracted construction and high cost had left her owners in a difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846 after the ship was stranded by a navigational error.
Sold for salvage and repaired, Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia until converted to 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 scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward that paid for the vessel to be towed back to the UKGreat Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where she was built. Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she is an award-winning visitor attraction and museum ship in Bristol Harbour, with 150,000–170,000 visitors annually.
SS Nornen on Berrow Beach.
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 last 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. The heroic rescue of the ship's crew The John Godfrey Morris lifeboatWhen the mists cleared on the morning of March 3, 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. The wreck remains there today. 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. Today, when the tide goes out, children play amid the timbers of the ship wreck, which lies just north of St Mary's Parish Church at Berrow.
This was taken in 1983 on Kodachrome and scanned with an Epson 4990 at 480dpi and 48 bits color depth. The brush effect was done using EasyFrame (OSX). The image is of the SS Norway before she was hacked with a extra deck so she still had the lines of the transatlantic ocean liner called the SS France. She was anchored off of Nassau in this image. She now being broken up as scrap metal. Let this be a memory of a happier time. I will be posting some more interior shots as I get them scanned.
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 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.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat. However, her protracted construction and high cost had left her owners in a difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846 after the ship was stranded by a navigational error.
Sold for salvage and repaired, Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia until converted to 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 scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward that paid for the vessel to be towed back to the UKGreat Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where she was built. Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she is an award-winning visitor attraction and museum ship in Bristol Harbour, with 150,000–170,000 visitors annually.
ROTTERDAM im Oktober 1929 -
Dampfschiff "BARRANCA" erbaut 1906 von Stephen & Sons in Glasgow. Eigentümer: Elders & Fyffes Ltd. Manchester. Außerdienststellung 1936.
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© 1963 Paul Hamlyn Ltd.
A few more scans from an old book titled Ships.
This is SS United States. My friend Mad Modern will be excited to see this!
SS Master is a gorgeous 1922 wooden hulled, steam tugboat. Last time I saw it, it was in Steveston (Richmond), here it's moored at Granville Island (Vancouver).
SS Rotterdam.
In August 2009 we saw this ship during a harbour tour in Rotterdam.
The Rotterdam came into service for Holland-America Line in 1959. She is the largest passenger liner ever built in the Netherlands and is numbered among the most successful liners which ever sailed the seven seas. The ship has largely maintained her original character and remains in good condition. The Steamship Rotterdam Foundation was formed in May, 2001 with the aim of stimulating discussion about and ultimately action in returning the ship to Holland and her lasting preservation and exhibition in a culturally and historically responsible manner. With the acquisition of the ship by De Rotterdam BV, see www.derotterdam.com, the primary goal of the Foundation has been attained. Much work remains to be done, and the Foundation plans to continue to play an active role in the remaining phases of this tremendous project. On August 4 2008 the Rotterdam was docked in the Maashaven. The Rotterdam will be open for the public as from February 15th 2010.
Interior of funnel showing stiffening tacked in place ready for riveting - approximate weight 7 Tonnes
The replica engine on Brunel's SS "Great Britain" of 1843. She was an advanced and visionary passenger steamship constructed for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. Other ships had previously been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller but "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.
The restoration of this once rusty hulk is absolutely stunning.
I.K. Brunel's S.S. Great Britain - the first ocean liner in the world and the largest ship in the world (3,675 tons displacement) when launched in 1843 from the dock it is now displayed in, Bristol City Docks, 12 September 2019. Pictured in the museum is the main top.
The SS United States taken from nearby IKEA 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.
S.S. Lucia, a 6744 gross ton freighter, was built on the Austrian Adriatic coast in 1912 as part of the Austro-Hungarian merchant marine. Seized by the United States Government when the U.S. entered World War I, she was placed under American registry and operated by the U.S. Shipping Board and later by U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps as ID # 3090. On 17 October 1918, while in the western Atlantic, Lucia was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-155. Here she is seen in this undated photograph in Mobile Al taken by Eric P Overby. photo # 165-WW 274A-10. While in Mobile Al where she was interned at the opening of the war, William T Donnelly was allowed to install buoyancy "Donnelly boxes" over the interior of the ship making it in theory un-sinkable but the Lucia was struck low at the keel by a torpedo and as a result the double bottom was destroyed and this allowed too much water in the ship but it still took 22 hours for her to sink. see " The Port of New York Harbor and Marine Review, Vol 1. pages 9 -13 " from 1922 for details