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Having first set sail in 1890, the SS Robin now sits on a specially built floating pontoon to preserve it for future generations. It is one of the last remaining complete steam ship from the Victorian era, still with its original engine and boiler. It is seen here beside the derelict Millennium Mills in the Royal Docks, London.
I.K. Brunel's SS "Great Britain", preserved at the Great Western Dockyard, Bristol. 10th September 2009.
Famous HAL ship (the fifth called Rotterdam)
(Holland-Amerika Lijn) built in 1959
now hotel (Westcord), since 2008
It's very nice, outside and inside !
What an experience! Long project. Stainless Reynolds 953 Randonneur frame set. Tons of features, two custom stems, front pannier rack and decaleur
I bet this ship could tell some stories. Once held records for fastest Eastbound and Westbound Atlantic crossings. Berthed in Philadelphia.
Engineers and workmen are attempting to salvage the armed liner SS Manchuria, which collided with the Amphitrite (BM-2) in a heavy fog in New York Bay near Quarantine, late on the night of 13 June 1917. The Manchuria, one of the first American liners to cross the Atlantic armed with stern and forward guns as a protection against the German submarines, was out of service for some time. Two big holes were stove in her starboard side amidships, above and below the water line and down by her stern. After the collision both vessels drifted about in the fog and the Amphitrite finally became entangled in the safety net at the entrance to the harbor. The Manchuria settled with the water she had shipped and is lying far down. A close up view of the stern on the Manchuria, showing her lower deck almost even with the water line. Her stern gun can be seen on the deck.
A clam day on the Delaware Bay as the Cape May-Lewes ferry b) SS DELAWARE is southbound on the Delaware Bay in route to Lewes, DE. She was built in Wilmington, DE at Pusey & Jones Shipyard in 1941 as the a) POCAHONTAS for the Virginia Ferry Corp. (VFC). The VFC ran ferries on the Cape Charles-Little Creek crossing of the lower Chesapeake Bay. She was 300' in length with a 65' beam, powered by two Skinner Uniflow steam engines with a total of 3800 SHP. Her operating speed was 14 knots and was capable of 18 knots. In 1957 she was cut in two at the Baltimore Shipyard, in Baltimore, MD, pulled apart and a 76 foot mid section added increasing her length to 376'. She could carry 120 auto's of the time (The fifties model cars were big.). With the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel she and four (Later five.) of her fleetmates went north to the Delaware Bay bought by the Delaware River & Bay Authority (DRBA) for a new run from Lewes, DE to North Cape May, NJ. DRBA built new vessels in the early 1970's and the old ferries were sold to Mascony Transport & Ferry Services Inc. for a proposed new run between Greenport, NY and New London, CT. Mascony got tied up in government red tape and was unable to get the required permits to operate. In the meantime the DELAWARE made her last run for DRBA on Sept 19 1974. After release from the DRBA she steamed to Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock in Norfolk, VA where she failed a Coast Guard inspection. For well over a year, maybe two she remained tied up at the shipyard unable to pay her bills. She was finally put up for auction with a $120,000 bill remaining to be paid, she was sold for $8,000. Later in the spring of 1977 she was towed over to Pinners Point in Portsmouth, VA where she was scrapped.
To Captain Bill Parks one of her former captains, this was his favorite boat. Acting as First Mate he took her up to Lewes, DE in 1962 for a trail run across the Delaware Bay with state officials and others. The governor of Delaware was allowed to steer the ship for a while. What better way to sell your boat, put the buyer behind the helm. Captain Parks now working for Curtis Bay Towing watched her daily from his tug as he saw his pride and joy being eaten away by the cutting torch.
Photo scanned from an old slide, not very good, date summer of 1967.
Posted but date missing. A contemporary commercial postcard probably published soon after the tragic sinking in 1912.
I've painted the cap to have a SS camo, just that I don't know wich is this camo (maybe SS dot camo, or is it invented? (I didn't take any image of reference, that's why)).
Tell me your opinion ;)
The man between the blades gives you a sense of scale of the size, the propeller is a replica of the original design.
It was Brunel’s designs, as a respected engineer, which finally led to mass take-up of the designs with his own being fitted to the first screw prop vessel to cross the Atlantic and that same machinery (being tested in 2004) having an efficiency of 65% by modern day standards.
The 12.SS Panzer, with 20,540 personnel, first saw action on 7 June 1944 as part of the German defense of the Caen area during the Normandy campaign.
A model of the first ship over 1,000 ft long - the incomparable Trans-Atlantic passenger liner SS Normandie at the Science Museum, South Kensington, 14 April 2007.
In the late 1920’s French Line wanted a super-liner to compete with Cunard’s planned RMS Queen Mary. The result was a design in total contrast to the rather conservative Queen Mary. The Normandie had a very advanced and innovative hull designed by a Russian émigré (Vladimir Yourkevitch) who had first gone to Cunard but been rejected because his ideas were considered too radical but which was adopted by Normandie’s chief designer Marin-Marie.
Moreover, the majority of the Normandie’s passenger accommodation was to be first class with the most lavish and luxurious furnishings, at the expense of the plainer Second and Third Classes. Also, the Art Deco style was of the slickest kind. In contrast, the Queen Mary had much more Second and Third Class accommodation which was finished to a high standard and its Art Deco style was more restrained.
The Normandie was built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, being launched in 1931 and completed in 1935. She was the largest ship ever built with 160,000 shp (200,000 shp max) turbo-electric drive (advanced for that time) and four screws, giving her a maximum speed of 30 kts, though she recorded 32.2 kts on her trails. She measured 1,029 ft x 118 ft x 36.7 ft, and weighed 79,280 tons gross as built.
However, when the Queen Mary entered service a year later, her weight was revealed as 81,235 tons so to regain her record of the largest ship in the world the Normandie added passenger accommodation to increase her weight to 82,799 tons gross (though some sources state 83,423 tons); she was once again the world’s biggest ship (though overtaken in 1940 by Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth at 83,673 tons).
On the Normandie’s maiden voyage she gained the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from the Italian super-liner Rex. But in 1936 the Queen Mary, although on paper slower because of her more conventional hull, gained the Blue Riband, only for the Normandie to win it back in 1937 and then for the Queen Mary to win it again in 1938 (which she held until the SS United States won it in 1952).
Interestingly, although a huge critical success, the undoubtedly very impressive Normandie had to rely on subsidies from the French Government as she was rarely over 60% capacity. The 1930’s saw a boom in American tourists coming to Europe but they preferred the less-intimidating but still luxurious Second Class and Third Class accommodation of the Queen Mary and its less formal, more relaxed ambience. The Queen Mary was very well patronised and did not need subsidies.
An even larger and more advanced stable mate to Normandie was proposed (designed by the same Russian émigré), the Bretagne, but that was abandoned when WWII broke out, when the Normandie found itself stranded in New York.
Just after Pearl Harbour, the USN took over the ship and renamed her USS Lafayette and work began on converting her to a troop ship. Unfortunately, in 1942 a fire broke out during the conversion and the ship overturned because of the huge amount of water pumped on board. She was then scrapped.
Although it was first thought that the fire was the result of sabotage by the enemy, an inquiry found it was caused by an accident caused by a welder. However, subsequent research has revealed some very suspicious events, which included organised crime. The Normandie had an extensive fire prevention system which had been disconnected; Vladimir Yourkevitch was in New York at the time of the fire and arrived at the scene only to be barred from it whilst his warnings that the ship was in danger of capsizing because of the amount of water being poured on board were ignored by the authorities in charge, as was Yourkevitch’s suggestions for an alternative rescue plan; moreover, it seems a large pile of life vests filled with inflammable kapok gas had been placed next to the welders torch and the extensive varnished wood panelling in the 1st class lounge which hadn’t yet been removed.
Years later mobsters have said that at the time Normandie was being converted, they wanted the Mafia boss ‘Lucky Luciano’ released from prison and that they told the authorities that, if he was released, then his associates’ ‘influence’ with the longshoremen union would ensure there would be no ‘sabotage’ in the New York Docks! But if he wasn’t….
The SS Badger, a car ferry that used to haul railcars across Lake Michigan, steams away from Manitowoc
American muscle at its best! I captured this vintage Chevelle SS with my Olympus OM-1n 35mm film SLR, loaded with Kodak Tri-X black and white film. I used the 50mm f/1.8 Zuiko lens.
After getting negatives and prints back from the lab, I scanned the negative with my Epson V600 film scanner, matching the print.
The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined sports car, designed and developed in Germany by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured in Molsheim, France, by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
The original version had a top speed of 407.12 km/h (252.97 mph). It was named Car of the Decade and best car award (2000–2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear. The standard Bugatti Veyron also won Top Gear's Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005.
The current Super Sport version of the Veyron is recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph), and the roadster Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse version is the fastest roadster in the world, reaching an averaged top speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph) in a test on 6 April 2013.
Name origin
The Veyron EB 16.4 is named in honour of Pierre Veyron, a Bugatti development engineer, test driver and company race driver who, with co-driver Jean-Pierre Wimille, won the 1939 24 hours of Le Mans while driving a Bugatti. The "EB" refers to Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti and the "16.4" refers to the engine's 16 cylinders and 4 turbochargers.
World record controversy
A controversy developed in 2013 over the Veyron Super Sport's status as the world’s fastest production car, ultimately resolved in the Veyron's favor.
In early April 2013, driving.co.uk (also known as Sunday Times Driving) began an investigation following claims from US car maker Hennessey that its 928 kW (1,244 bhp) Hennessey Venom GT was entitled to the Guinness World Record. With a recorded speed of 427.6 km/h (265.7 mph) the Hennessey was 3.4 km/h (2.1 mph) slower than the Veyron but Hennessey dismissed Bugatti’s official record saying that the Veyron Super Sport was restricted to 415 km/h (258 mph) in production form and that for it to achieve its record top speed of 431.0 km/h (267.8 mph), the car used was in a state of tune not available to customers. Hennessey said its Venom GT was road-ready and unmodified and was therefore a production car in the strict sense of the term.
Driving.co.uk requested clarification from Guinness World Records, which investigated this claim and found that the modification was against the official guidelines of the record. Upon finding this, Guinness World Records voided the Super Sport's record and announced it was "reviewing this category with expert external consultants to ensure our records fairly reflect achievements in this field."
After further review, Shelby SuperCars, the producers of the Ultimate Aero TT, said that they had reclaimed the record, however Guinness reinstated the Super Sport's record after coming to the conclusion that "a change to the speed limiter does not alter the fundamental design of the car or its engine."
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, World Record Edition (2010–)
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is a faster, more powerful version of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. Production is limited to thirty units. The Super Sport has increased engine power of 1,200 PS (880 kW; 1,200 bhp), a torque of 1,500 N·m (1,100 lbf·ft), and a revised aerodynamic package. The Super Sport has a 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) top speed, making it the fastest production road car on the market although it is electronically limited to 415 km/h (258 mph) to protect the tyres from disintegrating.
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport World Record Edition is a version of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport. It is limited to five units. It has an orange body detailing, and a special, black, exposed, carbon, body.
The vehicle was unveiled in 2010 at The Quail, followed by the 2010 Monterey Historic Races at Laguna Seca, and the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
[Text taken from Wikipedia]
This Lego miniland-scale 2010 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 88th Build Challenge, - "Let's go Break Some records", - for vehicles that set the bar (high or low) for any number of vehicles statistics or records. In the case of the Veyron Super Sport, the fastest road car in the world - 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph).