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The largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and still holds the record for the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction.
Here it's departing Philadelphia, PA for the last time, en route to Mobile, AL, prior to being sunk as the world's largest artificial reef.
A company of eight well-to-do folks posing aboard the Dutch ocean liner "SS Vondel". There is some handwriting in German on the reverse side of the photograph – see below. The lady marked with a cross is most probably called Lilly.
Country of origin: Germany
The fifth SS Rotterdam, also known as "The Grande Dame", is a former ocean liner and cruise ship, and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, since 2010. She was launched by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and was completed the following summer. The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch "ship of state", employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting out process. Her career spanned forty-one years. She sailed from 1959 until her final retirement in September 2000.
Diving conditions on the SS Yongala were not ideal, but we managed three dives that day. This was taken at the bow of the wreck, and gives you a glimpse at the size of the actual ship.
Yeah, what should I say about it? :3
Custom made ammo pouches, Helmet was edited before painting, ...
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SS Suevic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. Suevic was the fifth and last of the Jubilee Class ocean liners, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route, along with her sister ship SS Runic. In 1907 she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name Skytteren, she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany.
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 re-floated, 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. (Wikipedia)
Camera: Nikon D800E
Lens: Sigma 50 mm f/1.4 @ f/16
The first ship to utilise screw propeller, designed and built by the brilliant IK Brunel, part of the historic dockside museum in Bristol, England
The SS United States is the fastest ocean liner ever built and the largest built in America. Her future is uncertain, so please help the SS United States Conservancy in their efforts to restore and preserve her as a waterfront development and museum. www.ssunitedstatesconservancy.org
Source: www.concreteships.org
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Built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company in Oakland as an oil tanker, the Palo Alto was launched on May 29, 1919. She remained docked in the San Francisco Bay for over 10 years and was then purchased by the Seacliff Amusement Company of Nevada and towed to Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, California. The ship was grounded in the bay and connected to the shore by a long pier. An arcade, dining room, dance hall and even a swimming pool were built on the ship.
Unfortunately, the Seacliff Amusement Company went out of business two years later under the financial crunch of the Great Depression. Then, in winter, a storm cracked the ship across her midsection. The Palo Alto was stripped of all salvagable metal and fixtures and turned into a fishing pier.
SS Ayrfield is one of several shipwrecks in the Homebush area, though it's the most prominent. Apparently, the wrecks were supposed to be broken down for scrap metal but wrecking yard went broke after scrap metal prices fell in the 1970s. Now they've been reclaimed by the mangroves and only local residents and avid photographers know of their existence.
Lens: TTArtisans 17mm F1.4 @f/8(probably)
SS Ordensburg – Wewelsburg 1939 - 1945
Die Wewelsburg ist ein burgähnliches Renaissanceschloss im Stadtteil Wewelsburg der Stadt Büren im Kreis Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Die Höhenburg liegt über dem Tal der Alme und ist eine der wenigen Burgen mit dreieckigem Grundriss in Deutschland. 1123 errichtete Graf Friedrich von Arnsberg an diesem Standort eine Burg. Nach seinem Tod wurde die Burganlage von Bauern zerstört. Später besaßen die Grafen von Waldeck und die Fürstbischöfe von Paderborn Burgen an dieser Stelle. Das heutige Gebäude wurde von 1603 bis 1609 errichtet. Von 1934 bis 1945 wurde die Burg von der SS genutzt und teilweise umgestaltet. Heute sind in der Wewelsburg das Historische Museum des Hochstifts Paderborn und eine Jugendherberge untergebracht.
Als leitender Architekt für den Umbau der Wewelsburg zur SS-Burg wurde bereits 1933 Hermann Bartels vom „Reichsführer SS“ Heinrich Himmler ernannt. Im Juni 1934 wurde die Burg zum symbolischen Preis von einer Reichsmark pro Jahr von der NSDAP angemietet. Bis 1938 war Manfred von Knobelsdorff und bis Kriegsende Siegfried Taubert „Burghauptmann“. Himmler, der Ostwestfalen während des lippischen Landtagswahlkampfes im Januar 1933 kennengelernt hatte, wurde durch führende Nationalsozialisten aus der Region, insbesondere Adolf von Oeynhausen, auf die Wewelsburg aufmerksam gemacht. Himmler plante zunächst eine Schulungsstätte für SS-Führer.
Ein kleiner Stab von SS-Wissenschaftlern wurde eingestellt. Ab Kriegsbeginn waren neue Pläne darauf gerichtet, aus der Wewelsburg einen Versammlungsort für die SS-Gruppenführer (Generäle), vor allem bei besonderen Anlässen, zu machen. Überlieferte Vorgaben Himmlers sahen die Aufhängung von Wappen der Gruppenführer (1937), die Durchführung einer jährlichen Gruppenführertagung mit Vereidigung (1938) und die Aufbewahrung der Totenkopfringe von verstorbenen Ringträgern (1938) vor. Die Wappenaktion wurde abgebrochen. Regelmäßige Gruppenführertagungen fanden nicht statt. Lediglich im Juni 1941 rief Himmler eine Gruppe von SS-Funktionsträgern zusammen, um ihnen die Kriegsziele des Russlandfeldzuges zu erläutern. Die Sammlung der Totenkopfringe scheint angelegt worden zu sein. Nach Aussage von Ortsansässigen nahmen amerikanische GIs solche Ringe 1945 mit.
Die baulichen Maßnahmen der SS erreichten – ungeachtet der eher vagen inhaltlichen Vorstellungen – beträchtliche Ausmaße. In den Anfangsjahren erhielt die Wewelsburg eine vollständig neue Inneneinrichtung, die zum Teil mit SS-Ornamentik geschmückt war. Das Äußere der Wewelsburg wurde durch Abnahme des Putzes, Vertiefung der Gräben und Errichtung einer neuen Brücke „burgähnlicher“ gestaltet.
In den Jahren 1936–1937 und 1939–1941 entstanden am Vorplatz zwei große SS-Verwaltungsgebäude. Im Dorf wurden eine Villa für den Chefarchitekten und Wohnhäuser für SS-Personal errichtet. Ab 1940 nahmen die Pläne unter dem Einfluss des von Himmler beauftragten Architekten Hermann Bartels gigantische Ausmaße an. Auf dem Gebiet des Dorfes Wewelsburg sollte eine neue Burganlage in einem Dreiviertelkreis mit einem Radius von 635 Meter um das alte Gebäude herum entstehen. Die Bewohner sollten ausgesiedelt werden.
Um die laufenden und geplanten Bauarbeiten im Krieg verwirklichen zu können, errichtete die SS ein Konzentrationslager in Wewelsburg. Das Lager bestand ab Mai 1939 zunächst aus einem Häftlingskommando, das dem Hauptlager Sachsenhausen unterstand.
Ab 1941 wurde das KZ (am nunmehr dritten Standort am Ortsrand) zum staatlichen Hauptlager KZ Niederhagen erhoben. Es bestand bis zum April 1943. Die verbliebenen Häftlinge wurden organisatorisch dem KZ Buchenwald unterstellt. Von den insgesamt 3.900 nachgewiesenen Häftlingen aus fast allen von der Wehrmacht besetzten Ländern überlebten 1.285 das KZ nicht.
Im März 1945 befahl Himmler die Sprengung der Burganlage und der angrenzenden Verwaltungsgebäude. Die Wewelsburg brannte vollständig aus, ebenso das Wachgebäude; das benachbarte Stabsgebäude wurde vollständig zerstört.[8]
Am 2. April 1945 wurde die zerstörte Burg von Amerikanern eingenommen.
Infos: www.wewelsburg.de/de/wewelsburg-1933-1945/historischer-hi...
It has been a real struggle to get some photos this weekend due to the horrendous weather conditions. It eased up here today and so I ducked to the beach to get some photos of the old favourite, the SS Dicky wreck. I thought with the sea foam around it would make a unique shot of a well known landmark.
Polarising filter and 3 stop ND filter to get some movement in the foam and water.
On our way to Laren I saw a Mercedes SLR McLaren. In Laren I saw a Buggati Veyron and this EB 110 SS, and on my way back home I saw a Lamborghini Muciélago!!
Initially Uganda operated as a liner of the British-India Steam Navigation Company, between London and East Africa, calling at Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said, Aden, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam and Tanga, between 1952 and 1967. The round trip took about 60 days. When the Suez Canal was closed in 1956/1957 and from 1967, the route of the ship was Gibraltar, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cape Town, Durban and East Africa. Uganda (apparently known as UgTug in the crew bar) was converted to an educational cruise ship at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft at Hamburg. Her passenger capacity leapt from 300 to 1,200 and tonnage increased to 16,607 tons and she sailed her first voyage in her new role on 27 February 1968, delighting school children (including me!), their teachers, passengers and crew for 14 years cruising mainly to Scandinavia and the Mediterranean.
In 1982 the ship served as a hospital ship in the Falklands War with the callsign "Mother Hen". She was called up for military duty while on cruise 276 and discharged her 315 cabin passengers and 940 school children, who were on an educational cruise, in Naples. Uganda had a three-day refit in Gibraltar where she had helicopter platform, fittings for replenishment at sea, satellite communications and her wards and operating theatres kitted out. Two additional water distillers were fitted on the sports deck. She was painted white and eight large red crosses were also added. A team of 135 medical staff, including 12 doctors, operating theatre staff and 40 members of the QARNNS, left Portsmouth to join the ship taking large quantities of medical supplies with them. Working closely with Uganda were the converted survey ships HMSs Hecla, Hydra and Herald. Uganda sailed to and fro between "Red Cross Box 2" and Middle Bay, taking on casualties, both British and Argentine, transferring those who were well enough to the converted survey ships for passage to Montevideo.
On 28 May the land battles started and Uganda anchored in Grantham Sound, 11 miles NW of Goose Green, where casualties from both sides arrived by helicopter and were treated. By 31 May she had 132 casualties on board. Uganda co-ordinated the movements of the four British and three Argentine hospital ships Bahia Paraiso, Almirante Irizar and Puerto Deseado and treated 730 casualties, 150 of them Argentine, making four rendezvous with the Argentine ships. By 10 July her role as a hospital ship was over and the crew held a party for 92 Falkland children more in keeping with her peacetime role. On 14 July, Uganda was deregistered as a hospital ship and the red crosses were painted out. Two days later she went back to Grantham Sound, to embark a Gurkha battalion before sailing for the UK on 18 July. She arrived at Southampton on 9 August 1982, 113 days after she had sailed to join the Task Force. During this time, she had sailed 26,150 miles, consuming 4,700 ton of fuel with over 1,000 helicopter landings on her temporary flight-deck and 3,111 personnel had been transferred to or from the ship.
After a refit in North Shields the ship returned to educational cruising but only for a few months as in January 1983 she returned to duty as a troopship serving between Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands. Two years later, she was laid up in the River Fal and was eventually sold for scrap. Sailed by a skeleton crew to Taiwan, she was driven ashore by Typhoon Wayne on 22 August 1986 near Kaohsiung, Taiwan and lay there until broken up in 1992.
The ship's original tonnage was 14,430 grt and she was fitted with two steam turbines developing 12,300 hp, developing a top speed slightly over 19 kts.
Scanned from an undated postcard I obtained aboard her in 1973.
Built 1902 - Gourlay Brothers & Co., Dundee
see www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?official_number=&imo=&a...
and...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Brussels
SMM Ref 2017-037(021)
The S.S. Minnow, the name of the fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island
Si a finales de los años 60 tu corazón te pedía un Camaro pero tu cerebro te decía que necesitabas un coche familiar, éste era tu coche. El Camaro se basaba en la plataforma del Nova así que era fácil una versión más deportiva. Chevrolet usaba SS para las versiones más deportivas de casi toda su gama con algunas excepciones como el Corvair cuya versión deportiva era el Corsa.
(American Passenger-Cargo Ship, 1904) In an icy harbor, during the winter of 1917-1918. She is painted in Mackay low visibility camouflage. This ship served as USS Troy (1614) in 1919, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Minnesota_(1903)
Wentworth Point
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