View allAll Photos Tagged SS
I had to go and find this plaque again, as I felt very touched by the story. It reads as follows :
Boiler of SS MacKinnon. This vessel was brought to this country in 1896, being intended for use as an armed patrol vessel. As the only means of conveyance from the coast to Lake Victoria was porterage, the vessel had to be imported in parts, each part being equivalent to a porter's load. The vessel was erected at old Kisumu and launched on June 4th 1900. In 1921 the ship was taken over by the Railway Administration and continued in its service until March 1929, when it was condemned as unfit for further use. On the 29th July 1929, the ship was sunk with customary ceremony in Lake Victoria in Latiture 0.21º S Longitude 34.10º E.
SS 9191 - "Valiant" - Lake & Trindad Ltd - Fowler K.3 (13008) 4.5nhp tractor built 6/1928. Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre, Old Warden on 17th September 2005
Coastal steamer deliberately wrecked on a sandbank at Brancaster and used as target practice by the RAF in WW2.
Not pictured: little sign saying TURN BACK IMMEDIATELY and giving dire warnings.
Manly ferry SS Balgowlah heads for Manly with enclosed promenade deck of varnished teak. The promenade decks were enclosed in the early 1930's on all the Manly ferries except for portions at either end, taking the lead from the new boats Dee Why and Curl Curl. Rose Bay in the distance. Built at Woolwich, Sydney in 1912. Balgowlah was slated for a refit similar to the Barrenjoey/North Head refit however that expense put an end to those plans and Balgowlah was withdrawn in 1951, stripped at Strides shipbreakers at Glebe Point by 1953. Her hull was scuttled at the "Ship's Graveyard" which is about 50km east of Sydney where water depth is between 270 and 390 metres. Like all ships at this location, her exact position is not known.
You will see the bow end at left with anchors. One of the few differences between Balgowlah and Barrenjoey was that Balgowlah had three unequally spaced portholes at the bow and three equally spaced portholes at the stern. Barrenjoey had the opposite. It's possible this may have been deliberate so that staff could tell them apart from a distance.
1958 Devin SS racing in Group 3B (1955-1961 Sports Racing Cars over 2000cc) at the 2011 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
slide 13/148
aspen, colorado
1977
fox hunt, woody creek hounds
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Paper napkin, of superior quality. This is the new logo of the SS Rotterdam, and it was repeated on the plate too. Sea bass, the dish of the day, with a vegetable mix and a tasty sauce.
slide 61/148
aspen, colorado
1977
fox hunt, woody creek hounds
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
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.
File name: 08_06_022718
Title: SS Ascania
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Ships
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Dicky Beach is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre.
The area was named after the iron steamboat, the SS Dicky, which ran aground during heavy seas in 1893. It was refloated, but again, heavy seas turned the ship about and back onto the sand where it remains to this day. Dicky Beach remains the only recreational beach in the world to be named after a shipwreck.
The SS Great Britain project, a replica of the first screw propeller, iron hulled ship designed and built over 100 years ago by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Now on display in Fleet Week, Winterfell :)
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winterfell%20Eventide/193/...