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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
When 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.
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, just south of Brean.
But when the wind blows and the big seas start to roll in, it doesn't take much imagination to see again that gallant rescue of not so long ago.
SS Mark was the first Dutch ship that was sunk in the second World War. On September 9 1939 the ship hit a mine and sunk within minutes of the coast of Denmark. All 22 crew members were saved.
The very detailed model shows the Mark with a cargo of wood in the Baltic in winter.
Model builder: Hendrik an der Ven
Collection National Maritime Museum Amsterdam
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 Stephen Hopkins was a merchant marine Liberty Ship named after a siger of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island. The Stephen Hopkins was the first US ship to sink a German surface warship.
SS Stephen Hopkins' acclaimed battle was against the German commerce raider Stier and her tender, Tannenfels. Stier was under the command of Horst Gerlach, with a crew of 324 well trained men.
On the morning of September 27, 1942, the Stier attacked the Hopkins off the foggy coast of South Africa. Hopkins' Armed Guard gunners and marines raced to their guns. Immediately, enemy shells killed two mariners as the stepped on deck. Armed Guard commander Kenneth Willet was severely wounded in the abdomen but continued directing his men. All guns were fired as fast as they could be loaded and discharged. The ship's 4-inch gun trained directly at the waterline of the German raider, getting a shot off about every 45 seconds. In the forward tub, five men fired continuously.
A shell pierced Hopkins' half-inch steel hull in the engine room, killing the engine crew at ther posts. A large caliber shell hit the forward gun tub as the abandon ship signal blew, leaving Seaman Second Class Wallace Breck the only survivor. He jumped overboard and climbed into a lifeboat just as a shell hit it and blew it out of the water. Breck was the only survivor again.
Cadet O'Hara saw the 4-inch gun deserted and dead men left arounnd it. He loaded and fired all five shells left in the ready box, scoring hits with every one. He was killed a few moments later.
The battle lasted about half an hour, leaving Stier and Hopkins on fire and sinking. Stier's crew set detonated charges to scuttle and abandon ship. Stephen Hopkins sank about an hour later. Her 19 survivors boarded one lifeboat and with little food and water journeyed 2,200 miles and 31 days to Brazil. Fifteen men survived.
In his battle report, which he turned in upon the Tannenfels' arrival in German territory, Captain Gerlach reported he fought a "heavily armed cruiser."
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.
My first attempt for the pincushion challenge for the Moda Slice Competition.
Family Reunion Jelly Roll, Sunkissed text print, rick rack and other various moda prints. Plus fish buttons. Filled with a combo of poly stuffing and crushed walnut shells.
Stained glass by Edward Nuttgens c1965 under the south tower of St Marie's, Rugby.
St Marie's is the mother church of Catholics in Rugby, and the result of gradual growth from the original 1840s building by A.W.N.Pugin with a saddlebacked tower, which later became the south aisle when a new nave and apse were built by Edward Pugin in 1864. Finally a new tower and spire (one of the tallest in the Midlands) were added by Bernard Whelan, completing the building we see today in 1872. The interior is richly adorned and underwent a thorough restoration and redecoration in the 1990s.
This is a church I've known since childhood, a major landmark on the Rugby skyline, and shares the same oddity as Rugby's Anglican parish church in having two mismatched towers as a result of enlargements (and not a little inter-denominational rivalry!)
The SS Selma, a World War I reinforced concrete tanker scuttled decades ago off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and visible above the water line, is no longer just a local curiosity.
Since 1992, besides recognition with a Texas Historical Commission's Official Texas Historical Marker, she has been designated as a State Archeological Landmark by the Texas Antiquities Committee, as the Official Flagship of the Texas "Army", and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In addition , the SS Selma rests in a significant site in Galveston Bay, the bay near the "marine battleground" for part of the Civil War's Battle of Galveston in 1863.
None of these honors in the past few years would have occurred had it not been for the tireless efforts of a former city editor of the Galveston Daily News and retired copy editor of the Houston Chronicle, A. Pat Daniels, of Houston, who purchased the Selma in 1992. He has exhibited an uncommon love for the old girl, so much that he throws a birthday party for her every year with much fanfare, inviting many of the local Texas luminaries and a few outsiders, myself included.
The War Effort
The Selma, a 7500 ton reinforced concrete tanker built in Mobile, Alabama, was launched on June 28, 1919. She was one of several concrete ships conceived and designed during World War 1. Construction was not completed until the war ended. She had a length 420 ft., a beam of 54 ft. and a draft with full cargo of 26 ft.. Her loaded displacement was 13,000 tons. This vessel marked the first use of shale aggregate expanded in rotary kilns for lightweight structural concrete.
Steel was in short supply because of the war efforts and concrete was then proposed as a viable alternative material for use in ship building. Feasibility studies by marine engineers indicated that a reinforced concrete ship would be practical if the concrete had a compressive strength of 5000 psi and weighted no more than 110 lb\ft.. As a matter of fact, the Selma's average compressive strength at 28 days was 5591 psi and the average modulus of elasticity was 3,306,000 psi, well beyond all expectations.
The hull of reinforced expanded shale lightweight concrete was 5" thick at the bottom, tapering to 4" on the sides. It required 2600 yds. of concrete reinforced with 1500 tons of smooth reinforcing bars. Expanded shale aggregaate was supplied in two graduations, fine and coarse. Diatomaceous earth was also used in the concrete.
To obtain proper placement of concrete in the thin hull and throughout the heavy mats of reinforcing steel the concrete mixture was quite fluid. Internal vibration was also used to improve consolidation.
Engineers in charge of the project found it difficult to control the fluid and produce a uniform batches. One of the engineers, Herbert A. Davis, developed an apparatus for controlling consistency. He used a 6 x 12 in. (150 x 300 mm) cylinder mold and an arrangement of fixed vertical tracks with which to lift the mold. The cylinder was filled with concrete and then lifted. This removed the cylinder from the concrete, allowing it to sag. The distance of the sag was measured and reported as the "consistency drop" in inches. This was the first successful effort to control the consistency of concrete in the field by comparing one batch with the next. This testing and others of a similar nature eventually led to the modern slump cone test. (ASTM C 143)
Postwar life of the Selma
The Selma served several ports in the Gulf of Mexico quite successfully. Unfortunately she ran aground on the South jetty at Tampico, Mexico on May 11, 1920, creating a sizeable crack about 60 ft. long in her hull. She was towed into Galveston for repairs. Although the damage was repairable, the dry-dock crew lacked the knowledge and had no experience repairing a hull of such material. With no guarantee of proper restoration, the U.S. Government's Emergency Fleet Corporation decided not to gamble.
A channel 1,500 ft. long and 25 ft. deep was dug to a point just off Galveston near Pelican Island's eastern shoreline. After being stripped of all valuable equipment, on March 9, 1922 she was towed out to her final berth, and laid to rest. This left the hull partly submerged, although awash when seas were rough
The Selma is still quite visible today from the historic marker on Pelican Island and has become an interesting artifact to be viewed by the locals and visitor tourists alike. Although she will never sail again, she has been proudly resurrected by Daniels and other proud Texans who believe she lives on in spirit.
SS Shieldhall is a preserved steamship that operates from Southampton. She is one of the last reciprocating steam engined ships built, using technology that dated back to the last quarter of the 19th century and which was obsolete at the time of her construction.
Pictured here on her annual voyage to Falmouth Docks for maintenance and inspection.
2006 Holden VE SS-V Commodore. 270kw 6 litre L98 Gen IV V8 with either a 6spd Tremec T-56 manual or 6spd GM 6L80 auto.
1987 monte carlo ss I own it since 1988 and I love it , my baby. Check out more of these car photos in our Show Off Your Ride gallery.
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Gervais Purcell collection.
Gervais Purcell (1919-1999) was a respected Australian commercial photographer who worked from the 1940s with retailers like David Jones and Hordern Bros, radio technology manufacturer Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA), swimwear manufacturer Jantzen, tourism operator Ansett Airways, and cruise ship operators P&O.
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The SS United States now sits in Philadelphia where it has since 1996. The ship still holds Trans-Atlantic speed records.
It is in danger of being sold for scrap in the near future.
The SS France leaving Southampton and entering The Solent, viewed from Calshot Spit in 1973.
(from an old slide)
Launched in 1960, mothballed in 1974.
Sold in 1979 to Norwegian Cruise Line, and became
SS Norway.
Decommissioned again in 2004.
Finally scrapped in India after much controversy in 2008.
A Waffen SS Sniper sporting a KAR98K witha ZF42 scope attatched. He picks off the Russians as they assault his own lines. However it appears futile for every one he drops it appears that 3 more charge forward, have they no fear of death?
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 original rudder and replica screw and lifting mechanism.
ss Rotti, Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland 1946 - 1971 (SMN). Year of build 1946, imonr. 5301033, speed 16½ knots, 8500pk (photo Johan van Loon & Wim Grund)
Frame :*SURLY* straggler Painted by COOK PAINT WORKS
Headset :*CHRIS KING* nothreadset
Wheels :*VELO ORANGE* voyager rim × *ENE CICLO* touring disc hub
Tire :*TERAVAIL* washburn tire
Crankset :*WHITE INDUSTRIES* eno single speed crank
Brake Lever :*DIA-COMPE* SS-6 brake lever
Handlebar :*NITTO* HiHi-bar
Stem :*PAUL* boxcar stem
Seat Post :*NITTO* S65
Seat clamp:*DKG*
Saddle :*SELLE ITALIA* milano turbo bonnie saddle
Grip :*BL SELECT* ganja grip
Pedal:*MKS* BM-7 pedal
The SS United States in the Delaware River at Philadelphia. I had a short amount of time to do this quick 3x5 sketch while my girlfriend was shopping this afternoon at IKEA. This is right across the street from the parking lot. It was cold so I just sat in the car. Unfortunately the ship is now a rusting hulk but I still think it's awesome.
Richmond B.C.
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Built in 1922, in False Creek, Vancouver, by Arthur Moscrop, the MASTER is the last remaining example of a once formidable fleet of wooden hulled, steam powered towboats on the West Coast.
The MASTER displaces about 200 tons, is 85 feet long, 19.5 foot beam and draws12 feet of water. Her triple expansion steam engine was built for the Royal Navy in 1916. Turning an 8 foot diameter propeller at 100 r.p.m., she cruises at over 8 knots.
From 1922 to 1959, the Master towed logs and barges in Georgia Strait and beyond, steaming over a million miles. She has seen many ports on the Pacific Coast, from Alaska to San Francisco. Laid up in 1959, she was bought in 1962 for $500, to be restored as a memorial to the men of the BC towing industry. In 1971, the Society for the Preservation of the steam towboat MASTER was formed to continue the struggle. In 1980, the society decided that only a near total re-building could save her. In May, 1986, she once again raised steam and proudly took her place as the Flagship of Expo 86.
This was only made possible by the efforts of a small, dedicated group of volunteers, assisted by generous corporate and individual donors, and with the aid of all levels of government. Sponsorship must continue, if the vessel is to be retained.
Today the MASTER steams around her home waters, unquestionably the Dowager Queen of the Vancouver waterfront, bringing wonder to the eyes of the young, and lumps to the throats of the old timers.
The festival took place at Britannia Heritage Shipyard
SS Macassa, of the Hamilton Steamboat Company was built in 1888 by Wm. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow Scotland, for service on Lake Ontario, between Hamilton and Toronto. By 1905 the H S B Co. faced competition from the rival steamer Turbinia, when the Macassa was lengthened from 154’ to 178’ to become the same length as the Modjeska. Owners of Turbinia purchased the Hamilton Steamboat Company, prior to the sale of both firms to the R & O Navigation Co. in 1912. In 1928 Canada Steamship Lines sold the Macassa to the Owen Sound Transportation Co.
The SS Montgomery in the Thames Estuary, It ran aground when its anchor slipped one night towards the end of WWII. It was full of munitions and posed a danger so work started to empty its cargo but the cargo started to moved and it was considered to dangerous to continue. At the time it was considered that if it exploded it would have taken out half of Kent and Essex. There are differing ideas as to its current state, some say the explosives would not now be a problem, some disagree.
The SS United States now sits in Philadelphia where it has since 1996. The ship still holds Trans-Atlantic speed records.
It is in danger of being sold for scrap in the near future.
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).
The SS United States docked in Philadelphia.
For more info on the ship and to help protect it, go to: www.ssunitedstates.org/SSUShome.html