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The SS Badger backs into the dock at Manitowoc, WI.
Photographed using a Sony Alpha A7R using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 lens.
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Als ouwe zeebonk moest ik me natuurlijk schamen dat ik nog niet eerder een bezoekje had gebracht aan de gerestaureerde SS Rotterdam die nu heerlijk van zijn pensioen ligt te genieten op Katendrecht.
Gisteren kwam het er dan eindelijk van. Het werd wel een bliksembezoek.
De aanleiding voor dit bezoekje was de fototentoonstelling van Aline ergens hier op deze oceaanreus. Het kostte me dan ook behoorllijk wat tijd en zoeken voordat ik het gevonden had.
Zodra ik meer tijd heb ga ik de individuele audio-tour doen. Maar € 12,50 voor een uurtje wandelen met een koptelefoon op vond ik voor een bliksembezoekje wel eventjes te duur. Bovendien had ik ook graag mijn statief bij me gehad, want wat is het daar binnen donker. Help.
Heb daarvoor in de plaats wat lekkers genomen op het terras van Hotel New York.
Op de foto is het rijk gedecoreerde trappenhuis te zien. Ik weet niet meer op welk dek want dat waren ere zo veel.
Info on Joachim Peiper and his battle group in the Bulge 1944. stabswache-de-euros.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010.html
These things are really cool in person. And apparently someone only an hour away from where I live owns this!
This image is more about the story of the SS Atlantic, a White Star Liner that sank off of Nova Scotia, click on the link to learn more about the story.
(SS-202) unloading the Gold bars which Trout carried from Corregidor to Pearl Harbor. Photographed as the gold was being unloaded from the submarine at Pearl Harbor in early March 1942.
Showing the SS Baikal in the act of breaking ice on lake Baikal, Central Siberia
The icebreaking steamer 'Baikal' was built at Walker in 1896. These photographs show it in action on Lake Baikal.
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Pickford & Black Steamship SS Orinoco photographed in the Caribbean. The color scheme of the ship was grey with a funnel painted yellow and black. She carried passengers from Halifax to the West Indies along with dried cod, molasses &refined sugar made in Halifax. Typical imports from the West Indies on the return trip were salt, cane sugar and rum.
The SS Delphine is a yacht that was first launched on 2 April 1921 and with modification to her boilers is still going strong. She was seen here moored offshore at Monaco.
She has a long and interesting history, including war service in WW2, when she was the flagship for Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations.
Returning to civilian hands after the war, she changed owners several times and coming close to being scrapped. She was saved by a $60 Million restoration and is now available for charter (if you can afford it).
I think she is a very nice looking - even elegant -vessel and hope she continues to sail for many years.
SS est une ancienne appellation utilisée par Chevrolet dans les années 1960.
"Cooper Tire & Rubber Company" est une compagnie américaine, fondée en 1913, spécialisée dans la conception, la fabrication et la vente de pneus
Photo of SS Marine Fox arriving at unknow port in 1946 as part of Operation Magic Carpet. The Marine Fox was a US Marine Commission Type C4 ship which was configured as a C4-S-B2 troop transport. It was built by the Sun shipyards of Chester, Pennsylvania as Hull #347 and was delivered on 20 Feb, 1945 and was converted to a container ship in 1961 and scrapped in 1980. This is image 16 of at least 16, no credit for photographer or publisher but US Army photo
HDR out of 3 captures with the s.s. Furie, the last steam driven oceangoing tug in the Netherlands.
Details at: www.furie.nl/?lang=en
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The SS Pere Marquette (also PM 15) was the world's first steel train ferry. It sailed on Lake Michigan and provided service between the ports of Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the Pere Marquette Railway from 1897 to 1930.
Railroad car ferry
The carferry was built by the Wheeler Shipyards in Bay City, Michigan, in 1896 at a cost of $300,000. The vessel was built for the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad and complete when launched, except for a few finishing items needed for the cabins. It left Bay City on December 30, 1896, and arrived first in Milwaukee for a day's public inspection.[1] It then continued onto Ludington from there and arrived on January 13, 1897. The ship had split cabins, one in front of the smoke stacks and one behind them. They provided sleeping berths for the officers and ten passengers.[2]
The steamship was 350 feet (110 m) long and 56 feet (17 m) wide. It measured 2,443 gross register tons and had two twelve foot propellers for its driving force. There were two compound engines that produced 2,500 horsepower.[3] The ship had electricity from stem to stern that was controlled at the pilot house. The inside deck had four railroad tracks with a capacity of 30 freight boxcars. Fully loaded the carferry had a displacement of some 4,050 tons on a 12.25 foot (3.73 m) draft of water. The vessel traveled in both the summer and winter and was capable of handling severe gales.[4] Its hull was constructed to break up heavy ice.[5] It was unique in that it was first steel train ferry constructed in the world.[6][7][8][9]
The vessel carried railroad cars and passengers and went into service as a cross-lake train ferry going across Lake Michigan. It made its official maiden voyage from Ludington to Manitowoc on the night of February 16, 1897. It carried 22 railroad freight boxcars and traveled all night at a speed of 14 knots and arrived at its destination at 7:00 A.M. on February 17, 1897.[10] The steamship was originally called the Pere Marquette and renamed the Pere Marquette No. 15 in 1924.[11][12]
The naval architect who designed the steamship was Robert Logan. He designed six car ferries for the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad between 1895 and 1910. He was born in Scotland and started shipbuilding in Canada in 1888.[13]
Holland (SS-01), at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD., circa 1901-1902. The crew on deck are, L to R: Harry Wahab, chief gunner's mate Kane, Richard O. Williams, chief electrician, Chief Gunner Owen Hill, commanding Igoe Michael Malone; Barnett Bowie, Simpson, chief machinist mate, and Rhinelander.
The two vessels on the right are monitors. The inboard vessel has only one turret and is probably one of 3 monitors: Arkansas (M-7), Nevada(M-8) or Florida (M-9). The outboard 2 turreted monitor is also one of 3 probables Amphitrite (BM-2), Terror (M-4) or Miantonomah (BM-5).
pátzcuaro, mexico
1976
skeletons, street market
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Before there was the MV Monte Rosa, there was the SS Monte Rosa, also a Hamburg-Süd ship. Several photos of the vessel hang in the Officers' Lounge of her namesake.
Here's her story:
SS Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. During the 1930s, she operated as a German cruise ship under the name Monte Rosa. During World War II, she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. She was acquired by the United Kingdom as a prize of war at the end of the war and renamed Empire Windrush. In British service, she continued to be used mainly as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew.
Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 492 passengers and one stowaway on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.
British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation.
[The] SS Monte Rosa was the last of five almost-identical Monte-class passenger ships that were built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg between 1924 and 1931 for Hamburg Süd (Hamburg South American Steam Shipping Company).
During the 1920s, Hamburg Süd believed there would be a lucrative business in carrying German immigrants to South America and the first two ships were built for that purpose, passenger accommodation was single-class, with space for 1150 in cabins and 1350 in dormitories.
In the event, the immigrant trade never materialized and the two ships were re-purposed as cruise ships, operating in Northern European waters, the Mediterranean and around South America.
This proved to be a great success. Until then, cruise holidays had been the preserve of the rich.
But by providing modestly-priced cruises, Hamburg Süd was able to profitably cater to a large new clientele.
Another ship was commissioned to cater for the demand – the MV Monte Cervantes. However she struck an uncharted rock and sank after only two years in service.
Despite this, Hamburg Süd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa; Monte Rosa was launched on 4 December 1930.
Monte Rosa was 500 ft 3 in (152.48 m) long, with a beam of 65 ft 7 in (19.99 m). She had a depth of 37 ft 8 in (11.48 m).
The ship was assessed at 13,882 GRT, 7,788 NRT The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships, with four 1,436 nhp four-stroke diesel engines driving two propellers. At the time, the use of diesel engines was highly unusual in ships of this size, which would have been typically steam-powered, and their use reflected the experience Blohm & Voss had gained by building Diesel-powered U-boats during World War 1.
Their top speed was 14 knots (26 km/h) (around half the speed of the large trans-Atlantic ocean liners of the era) but this was considered adequate for both the immigrant and cruise business.
The Monte Rosa, was delivered to Hamburg Süd in 1931, which operated her as a cruise ship, traveling to Norway, the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean.
After the Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, she was operated as part of the Strength Through Joy programme, which provided leisure activities and cheap holidays as a means of promoting the party's ideology.
She ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, on 23 July 1934, but was refloated the next day.
At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. She was used as a barracks ship at Stettin, then as a troopship for the invasion of Norway in April 1940.
She was later used as an accommodation and recreational ship attached to the battleship Tirpitz, stationed in the north of Norway, from where Tirpitz and her flotilla attacked the Allied convoys en route to Russia.
In November 1942, she was one of several ships used for the deportation of Norwegian Jewish people, carrying a total of 46 people from Norway to Denmark, including the Polish-Norwegian businessman and humanitarian Moritz Rabinowitz. Of the 46 deportees carried on Monte Rosa, all but two died in Auschwitz concentration camp.
At the end of March 1944, Monte Rosa was attacked by Royal Air Force Bristol Beaufighters, of 144 Squadron and 404 Squadron. The attack was mounted for the explicit purpose of sinking her after British Intelligence had obtained details of the ship's movements.
The RAF crews claimed two torpedo hits and eight hits with RP-3 rockets.
In June 1944, members of the Norwegian resistance movement attempted, but failed to sink her by attaching Limpet mines to her hull.
Later in 1944, Monte Rosa served in the Baltic Sea, rescuing Germans trapped in Latvia, East Prussia and Danzig by the advance of the Red Army. In May 1945, she was captured by advancing British forces at Kiel and taken as a prize of war.
In 1946, Monte Rosa was assigned to the British Ministry of Transport and converted into a troopship. By this time, she was the only survivor of the five Monte-class ships.
Monte Rosa was renamed HMT Empire Windrush on 21 January 1947, for use on the Southampton-Gibraltar-Suez-Aden-Colombo-Singapore-Hong Kong route, with voyages extended to Kure in Japan after the start of the Korean War. The vessel was operated for the British Government by the New Zealand Shipping Company, and made one voyage only to the Caribbean before resuming normal trooping voyages.
The new name was one of a series of ship names used by the British government for the vessels that were acquired or chartered for the carriage of troops. Many of these ships were second-hand (like Empire Windrush), and were renamed when bought. The names were "Empire" followed by the name of a British river; in this case the River Windrush, a minor tributary of the Thames, flowing from the Cotswold Hills towards Oxford.
In 1948, Empire Windrush, which was en route from Australia to England via the Atlantic, docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick servicemen who were on leave. The British Nationality Act 1948 had just been passed, giving the status of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC status) to all British subjects connected with the United Kingdom or a British colony.
Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions.
The ship was far from full, and so an opportunistic advertisement was placed in a Jamaican newspaper offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to come and work in the UK.
Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of rejoining the RAF, while others decided to make the journey just to see what England was like. The resulting group of 492 immigrants famously began a wave of migration from the Caribbean to the UK when the ship docked at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 22 June 1948, and the name Windrush has as a result come to be used as shorthand for that migration, and by extension for the beginning of modern British multicultural society.
The arrival of the ship immediately prompted complaints from some members of parliament, but the first legislation controlling immigration was not passed until 1962.
Among the passengers was Sam Beaver King who went on to become the first black Mayor of Southwark.
There were also the calypso musicians Lord Kitchener, Lord Beginner, Lord Woodbine and Mona Baptiste, alongside 60 Polish women displaced during the Second World War.
There were several stowaways. One, Averill Wauchope, was a "25-year-old seamstress" who was discovered seven days out of Kingston. A whip-round was organised on board ship, raising £50 – enough for the fare and £4 pocket money for her. Nancy Cunard, heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune, who was on her way back from Trinidad, "took a fancy to her" and "intended looking after her".
The arrivals were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep shelter in south-west London, less than a mile away from the Coldharbour Lane Employment Exchange in Brixton, where some of the arrivals sought work.
Many only intended to stay for a few years, and although a number returned the majority remained to settle permanently. Those born in the West Indies who settled in the UK in this migration movement over the following years are now typically referred to as the "Windrush Generation".
In May 1949, Empire Windrush was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port Said when a fire broke out on board. Four ships were put on standby to assist if the ship had to be abandoned. Although the passengers were placed in the lifeboats, they were not launched and the ship was subsequently towed back to Gibraltar.
Windrush set off from Yokohama, Japan, in February 1954 on what proved to be her final voyage. She called at Kure and was to sail to the United Kingdom.
Her passengers including recovering wounded United Nations veterans of the Korean War, some soldiers from the Duke of Wellington's Regiment wounded at the Third Battle of the Hook in May 1953, and also military families. However, the voyage was plagued with engine breakdowns and other defects and it took 10 weeks to reach Port Said, from where the ship sailed for the last time.
An inquiry later found that an engine-room fire began after a fall of soot from the funnel fractured oil-fuel supply pipes. The subsequent explosion and fierce oil-fed fire killed four members of the engine-room crew.
The fire could not be fought because of a lack of electrical power for the water pumps because the back-up generators were also not in working order and the ship did not have a sprinkler system.
The lack of electrical power also prevented many lifeboats from being launched and the remainder were unable to accommodate all the survivors, who were mostly clad in their nightclothes.
Despite these difficulties, the only fatalities were the four crew killed in the engine room – all 1,276 passengers were saved.
The rescue vessels took them to Algiers, where they were cared for by the French Red Cross and the French Army. Assistance was given by MV Mentor, MV Socotra, SS Hemsefjell and SS Taigete. A Shackleton from 224 Squadron, Royal Air Force assisted in the rescue.
The burned-out hulk of Empire Windrush was taken in tow by the Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate HMS Enard Bay of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, 32 miles northwest of Cape Caxine. HMS Enard Bay attempted to tow the ship to Gibraltar in worsening weather, but Empire Windrush sank in the early hours of the following morning, Monday, 30 March 1954. The wreck lies at a depth of around 2,600 metres (8,500 ft).
The SS United States on July 1, 2010. This is the bow that won her the "Blue Riband of the Atlantic". The SS United States is still the largest passenger ship built in America and holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by ship.
The SS Badger, a car ferry that used to haul railcars across Lake Michigan, steams away from Manitowoc
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Brunels' revolutionary ship, combining steam power screw propellor with an iron hull for the first time, she served as a transatlantic passenger ship, then a steamer to Australia eventually ending up as a floating warehouse in the Falkland Islands. Recovered to the UK in 1970, she sits in the same dry dock in which she was built, open as a tourist attraction and monument to the inginuity of Brunel
This British steam ship was sunk here on 15 September 1915 to serve as 'blockship' against German submarines entering Scapa Flow. It was re-used during the Second World War as part of the Churchill Barriers.
On Oct 27th, 1948, the Canadian ship SS ILEX, built 1919, in Milwaukee, was sailing from St. John's, NL, Canada, to Kingston, Jamaica with salted fish, when she went hiding from a storm in Fermeuse Harbour. In the night she caught fire in the engine room and was totally burned out. There were no casualties. She was moved out from the port and her remains lie beached east of Kingman Cove, Bonavista Bay.
www.hiddennewfoundland.ca/ss-ilex-shipwreck
www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?284927
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The SS United States on July 1, 2010. The SS United States is still the largest passenger ship built in America and holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by ship. Comparing her size to the man sitting next to her you can see how truly huge this ship is.
"SS Keewatin is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur / Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes Steamship Service. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland as Hull No. 453, the Keewatin was launched 6 July 1907 and entered service in the following year. She ran continuously for almost 60 seasons, being retired in 1966.
In August 2011 it was announced that the vessel had been sold to Skyline International Developments Inc.and was moved back to its home port of Port McNicoll, Ontario, on June 23, 2012, for restoration and permanent display as a maritime museum and event facility"
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S.S Palo Alto: She Lived Her Lifetime as a war ship in World War-1. Later stripped of her fittings and left as a fishing pier, There she was refitted as an amusement ship, with amenities including a dance floor, a swimming pool and a cafe. Eventually she deteriorated to the point where she was unsafe for this purpose and was closed to the public. Today she remains at Sea Cliff Beach and serves as an artificial reef for marine life.