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The SS Atlantus was a concrete ship built for use as a troop carrier. It was launched in 1918, but ran aground in 1926, where it remains to this day. When I was a kid it was relatively intact, but this is all that is left. I was fortunate to capture the Cape May-Lewes ferry passing in the background while I was taking this shot.
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The sign says "Booth where the SS man responsible for conducting the roll-call and collecting reports on the number of prisoners took shelter during inclement weather."
Of course, the prisoners weren't allowed to take shelter and were often required to stand outside in rain, snow, or freezing temperatures for hours at a time.
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
W class trams are family of electric trams built by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board between 1923 and 1956. Over the 33 years of production, 752 vehicles spanning 12 sub-classes were constructed, the majority at the MMTB's Preston Workshops.
A small fleet continue to operate on the tramway network of Melbourne, Australia, where they are used on the City Circle tourist route, the North Richmond to Prahran / St Kilda Beach route (routes 78/79), the St Vincents Plaza to Docklands route (route 30) and the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant service. The W class tram is a cultural icon to Melbourne, those that remain in Melbourne are classified by the National Trust of Australia.
As well as Melbourne, W class trams operate on tourist and heritage systems across the world. A number of older variants have been withdrawn from service and later sent to cities such as Copenhagen, Savannah and Seattle, and private enthusiasts.
Today 38 W class trams are in service on the Melbourne tram network, 12 run on the zero-fare City Circle tourist route, and 26 are used in revenue service. In revenue service they operate on route 30 along La Trobe Street, 78 North Richmond to Prahran and 79 North Richmond to St Kilda Beach. In addition, Yarra Trams has 26 W-class trams stored operational in "ready reserve".
Three W6 class trams have been converted for use on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant service which operate three meal services daily, the services can operate across the metropolitan system.
As at 2011 a further 175 were in store at Newport Workshops and Preston Workshops.
Forty W7-class trams were built in 1955/56 for operation on new Bourke Street routes (routes 86 and 96). Originally 70 were ordered but the number was cut to 40 following a change of government at the 1955 state election. They were very similar to the preceding W6 class, but with upholstered seats throughout. As of December 2013, 9 remain in service with Yarra Trams with another 4 stored operational in "ready reserve".
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 lovely 300 ton SS Robin was built in 1890 and is the oldest complete example left of a surviving coastal steam cargo vessel (a coaster). She has been restored internally and externally using traditional methods where possible to retain her Victorian character and is now on permanent display at the Royal Victoria Dock in east London. Close by is the Royal Victoria Bridge spanning the dock (see previous shot). This ship is one of London's best kept secrets and is now a protected national treasure.
To get there take either the DLR Railway or better still travel down the river on one of the Clipper Cruisers, get off at the O2 (old Millenium Dome) and take the new Emirates Air Line Gondola (also known as The Thames Cable Car) over the river where you can walk to the Royal docks. Altogether a thrilling experience. Oh, to sail away on this little gem!
Looks good on black.
Check out the full story and history from these links.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Robin
londoneer.org/2012/08/ss-robin-royal-victoria-dock-london...
D40 with Nikon 16-85mm VR lens
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Built 1902 - Gourlay Brothers & Co., Dundee
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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...
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Bristol MMB 43 SS Great Britain.jpg
SS Great Britain in dry dock at Bristol in 2005.
History
Name:SS Great Britain
Owner:Great Western Steamship Company
Builder:William Patterson
Cost:
Projected: £70,000
Actual: £117,000
Laid down:July 1839
Launched:19 July 1843
Completed:1845
Maiden voyage:26 July 1845
In service:1845–1886
Homeport:Bristol, England
General characteristics
Type:Passenger steamship
Displacement:3,674 tons load draught
Length:322 ft (98 m)
Beam:50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
Draught:16 ft (4.9 m)[1]
Installed power:2 × twin 88-inch (220 cm) cylinder, 6 ft (1.8 m) stroke, 500 hp (370 kW), 18 rpm inclined direct-acting steam engines
Propulsion:Single screw propeller
Sail plan:
Original: Five schooner-rigged and one square-rigged mast
After 1853: Three square-rigged masts
Speed:10 to 11 knots (19 to 20 km/h; 12 to 13 mph)
Capacity:
360 passengers, later increased to 730
1,200 tons of cargo
Complement:130 officers and crew (as completed)
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was 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.
The ship is 322 ft (98 m) in length and has a 3,400-ton displacement. She was powered by two inclined 2 cylinder engines of the direct-acting type, with twin 88 in (220 cm) bore, 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke cylinders. She was also provided with secondary sail power. The four decks provided accommodation for a crew of 120, plus 360 passengers who were provided with cabins and dining and promenade saloons.
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 having spent all their funds re-floating the ship after she was run aground at Dundrum Bay after a navigational error. In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired. Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia from 1852 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.[2]
In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward that paid for the vessel to be towed back to the UK, Great 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 between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors annually.
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 ships 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.
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)
ok, so took some shots of my buddy jasons SS. Think they came out good, didnt have much time to shoot :( maybe next time. Got some flack for putting up alot of photos (?) but i really only use this for storage and the BEST go on my site. www.patricksnapp.com
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!!
SS United States is a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record.
Built at a cost of $78 million,[6] the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the U.S., the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, and even in her retirement retains the Blue Riband given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
Her construction was partially subsidized by the U.S. government, since she was designed to allow conversion to a troop carrier should the need have arisen.[6] United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969; since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
March 21, 2016: SS Lane Victory, San Pedro, CA. In photogene lightened shadows and used light b&w preset. In rippix uused preset 01. In photocopier used Francesca. In mixtures used concrete, brooklyn and Iris. In snapseed used lens blur 30, vignette outer +20, inner -34, and Glamour Glow #5 +31. In stackable used waterfall soft light. In Formulas used martian dust 30% and hard cover border 15 width.
HMAS Tingara. Converted into a training ship for boys entering the Australian Navy. 1927 sold and moored in Berry's Bay, Sydney and boken up in 1941.
The SS Saginaw was unloading at Essar Steel Algoma Works in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Photographed using a Sony A7R with a Nikkor 43-86mm f/3.5 lens
During World War II, Aquileia carried out 84 missions, overall carrying and treating 38,803 sick and 12,799 wounded from North Africa, Greece and Albania.
Sadly, this car will only be on sale for another few months. After that, there will no longer be an Australian-made pickup (ute). The Holden Commodore VFII is the last of the line for a the Aussie ute, from the original Bandt-designed 1933 Ford Coupe Utility, through various generations of Ford and Holdens (and the occasional interloped from Chrysler or BMC).
The VF Commodore could have had a very bright future, possibly badged in the US as a Pontiac (like the G8 Sedan), or as a modern-day El Camino. Sadly the 2008 Financial Crisis, GM's bankruptcy, and uncompetitive currency positions meant that this was a Australia (and New Zealand) only proposition.
Key info included versions of Chevrolet's LS3 V8 with 408 hp, IRS, RWD and around 1,850 kg to move - making this ute and quick as some relatively recent Ferraris and Porsches.
Australia has been well-served by the ute. In our culture they hold as much macho appeal as sportscars, if not more - most of the time this would have been the only locally built car with two doors and a hot engine. Some of them were damned fast too - not necessarily a sensible idea with so little weight over the back wheels - though this in itself made them ideal for some circle work.
A relatively low period of cool-ute activity was manifest through the mid 1980s - Holden had ceased to produce a local ute in 1984, while Ford axed the V8 engine in 1982. The utes from the 1970s continued the mystique in a similar way that Musclecars in the US did, until new V8 Holden Commodores were produced from 1990.
Reacting to the market penetration of 1-tonne body-on-frame utilities from mostly Japanese brands through the 1990, the 1997 Ford AU Falcon included a ute where the rear section was a similar half-frame chassis cab, and optional sheet metal box - this increased the load carrying capacity, but not the styling purity. Holden retained the Coupe-Utility design, added IRS and high-powered V8s, and focused more on the leisure end of the market.
The VFII SS ute here shows the culmination of this effort (excluding the limited volume HSV Commodore versions) - as a Ford man I am sad to say that the Holden is a much better looking vehicle, and better resolved 'sporty car'.
This Lego miniland-scale Holden VFII Commodore SS Ute has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 116th Build Challenge, - "Pickups and Vans", - a challenge to design pickups and vans.