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Brunel's SS Great Britain was a first for shipping in many respects. First iron vessel, first screw propelled. Remarkably this design of propeller (although a replica) is almost as efficient as modern designs.
Built by: Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij. te Amsterdam
Keel: 1921
Launched: 1922
Completed: 9 april 1924
Length: 128.11 meter
Beam: 16.83 meter
Displacement: 5.955 ton
Engine: 2 x quadruple expansion Werkspoor
Power: 5.800 pk
Speed: 15.5 kn
I don't know the differences between the various models.
Seen at AACA Eastern Region Fall Meet, Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 2009.
This is one of the figures I showed you guys in the "sneak peek".
The soldier is wearing an oak leaf camo smock and is using an MP44/STG44. The weapon has a removable scope.
Decals and weapon modification by me.
A model of the passenger cargo liner SS Bavarian at the Glasgow Transport Museum, 2 March 2007. The Bavarian was built by William Denny, Dumbarton, being launched and completed in 1899 for the Allan Line’s Liverpool – Canada services. She measured 501 ft x 59 ft x 32 ft, weighed 10,387 tons gross, had 874 nhp steam reciprocating engines, 1 screw and a service speed was 16 kts. She was the first ship with refrigerated holds.
On the outbreak of the Boer War 1899-1903 the Bavarian was commandeered by the Admiralty as a troop transport. Back in normal service, she was wrecked on Wye Rock, Montreal in 1905. Her sister ship was the SS Tunisian, completed 1900 and broken up in 1928.
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch ocean liner built in Rotterdam for the Holland America Line. Find more about the history of the ship in the Wikipedia at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Nieuw_Amsterdam_(1937)
She was scrapped in 1974.
The picture was taken in 1964 using a Contaflex.
Scan of a Kodachrome slide.
SS United States of the United States Lines, in New York harbour during the mid 1950's.
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This image was produced from the original negative, held in my collection.
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History
Canada
Name:SS Keewatin
Owner:Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Port of registry:Montreal
Builder:Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Launched:6 July 1907
Christened:1907
Maiden voyage:14 September 1907
In service:7 October 1908
Out of service:29 November 1965
Status:Museum ship, Port McNicoll, Ontario, Canada
General characteristics
Tonnage:3,856 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:336.5 ft (102.6 m)
Beam:43.8 ft 7.2 in (13.533 m)
Depth:26 ft 7.2 in (8.108 m)
Installed power:3,300 h.p.
Propulsion:
Quadruple expansion steam engine,
4 coal-fired scotch boilers,
Single screw
Speed:14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Capacity:288
Crew:86
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. Keewatin also carried packaged freight goods for the railway at these ports.[1]
History
Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland as Hull No. 453, Keewatin was launched 6 July 1907 and completed her maiden voyage docking at Levis, Quebec to be halved because the canals below Lake Erie, specifically the Welland Canal could not handle ships as long as Keewatin. The ship was reassembled at Buffalo.,[2] where she resumed her voyage under her own power to begin service at Owen Sound, Ontario.
Keewatin in the 1910s
Keewatin ran continuously for almost 60 seasons, being retired in 1966. Soon after, she was acquired for historic preservation in the United States. Her sister ship, Assiniboia, was also set to be preserved as an attraction, but burned in 1971 and was scrapped.
In the last twenty years of her working life, like many passenger ships of that era on the Great Lakes, Keewatin and sister ship Assiniboia operated under stringent regulations imposed for wooden cabin steamships following the Noronic disaster in 1949. Doomed by their wooden cabins and superstructure, these overnight cruisers lasted through the decline of the passenger trade on the lakes in the post-war years. As passengers opted for more reliable and faster modes of travel, Keewatin and her sister ship were withdrawn from the passenger trade in 1965, continuing in freight–only service until September 1967. Along with South American and Milwaukee Clipper, Keewatin was among the last of the turn-of-the-century style overnight passenger ships of the Great Lakes.
Keewatin was eventually moved to Douglas, Michigan, in 1967, where she was a museum ship across the river from the summer retreat Saugatuck, Michigan. In July 2011 Keewatin was purchased by Skyline Marine and dredged from the Kalamazoo River with a one-mile (1.6 km) long, ten-foot (3.0 m) deep, 50-foot (15 m) wide excavation and dredged channel and moved to the mouth of the river and Lake Michigan on 4 June. Keewatin, manned with a crew of ten was towed back to Canada and arrived in Port McNicoll on 23 June 2012. Keewatin has just recently[when?] completed major restorations and has been independently appraised at $32,000,000.[when?] The ship is open for visits from 24 May until 10 October.[citation needed]
The ship has also become a floating set for a number of maritime-related documentaries and television docudramas, including subjects involving the torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania, the burned-out Bahamas cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, Canadian Pacific's Empress of Ireland, as well as Titanic. She was also used extensively in the opening episode of Season Seven, "Murdoch Ahoy," of Murdoch Mysteries.[3] A documentary has been broadcast on CBC Canada was also made called "Bring Her on Home".
Amenities
Keewatin is one of the largest of the remaining Edwardian era passenger steamers left in the world. The ship has become a time capsule of those days, along with a few other ships lucky enough to survive, such as Nomadic, lake steamer TSS Earnslaw (1913), (currently still operational in New Zealand), and surviving ex-Manly ferry MV Baragoola (1922) (out of service held in Australia). Keewatin is also noted[by whom?] as part of the evolution of the Great Lakes as a strong maritime center, and her long service record is attributed to her popularity and solid engineering.
Route
Keewatin was originally designed to complete the link in the Canadian Pacific Railway's continental route. She and Assiniaboia joined three others, Manitoba, Athabaska, and Alberta (the latter two also built in Scotland). She served this purpose by linking the Railroad's Owen Sound depot to Fort William Port Arthur on Lake Superior. In 1912 Port McNicoll, Ontario, was established as the new 'super port' and rail terminus and the ships moved there. The ships took two and a half days to make the trip each way, including half a day traversing the Soo Locks.[1] Port McNicoll was known as the "Chicago of the North" until the trains and ships were discontinued in 1965 following the completion of the Trans Canada Highway through northern Ontario, causing the town to practically die, as all of the rail and ship jobs left.
Museum ship
After languishing for a few years, in January 1967 Keewatin was bought by West Michigan entrepreneur Roland J. Peterson Sr.[4] for $37,000, $2,000 more than it would have sold for scrap.[5] It arrived on the Kalamazoo River in Douglas, Michigan, on 27 June 1967. The ship was known as Keewatin Maritime Museum, permanently docked, from 1968 until its relocation in 2012.
Relocation
In August 2011 it was announced that the vessel had been sold to Skyline International Developments Inc.,[6] and was moved back to its home port of Port McNicoll, Ontario, on 23 June 2012, for restoration and permanent display as a maritime museum and event facility. This is possible because of the cooperation of the local and State officials in obtaining permissions and permits to dredge the harbor where Keewatin sat for 45 years to allow the ship to be moved. A not for profit foundation, the Diane and RJ Peterson Keewatin Foundation, has been formed to operate the ship and restore her. Skyline Developments, a publicly held corporation that is rebuilding the 12,000-acre (4,900 ha) Port McNicoll site, is funding this project.
Keewatin was moved from Kalamazoo Lake on Thursday, 31 May 2012, and docked about a mile down river just inside the pier for continued maintenance before entering Lake Michigan. It departed Saugatuck for the big lake on Monday, 4 June 2012, to continue its journey northward to Mackinaw City. There it had a temporary layover before the final leg of the trip to Port McNicoll.
On 23 June 2012, a major celebration marked Keewatin's return and the rebirth of a new planned community surrounding her.[7] The date is significant as it was 45 years after Keewatin left Port McNicoll on 23 June 1967 and 100 years after 12 May 1912, the date that she began working from the same dock. The town staged the celebration, which included a 200-voice choir as part of the ceremonies.
In late 2017 plans were being discussed to move Keewatin to Midland, Ontario. By March 2018 it became clear that Keewatin would remain in Port McNicoll for another summer pending further relocation options.[8] In 2019, development company CIM committed to incorporating Keewatin into a redevelopment plan at the Port McNicoll site; the plans called for the ship to remain as a museum in a park adjacent to the proposed mixed-use (residential and commercial) development.[9] But by June 2020, Skyline Investments (owner of Keewatin and surrounding development properties) indicated CIM had defaulted on mortgage payments,[10] and would instead be pursuing plans to donate the ship to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario.[11] Local opposition to the relocation from Port McNicoll has been spirited,[12][13] and the fate of Keewatin remains unclear.
SS Leonid Sobinov docked at Pyrmont in 1979.
Owned by Black Sea Shipping Company at the time, SS Leonid Sobinov was originally known as RMS Saxonia when it was built for Cunard Line. In 1963, the ship was renamed RMS Carmania and in 1973, it was purchased by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company.
The SS Leonid Sobinov has a significance in Sydney history being the ship involved in the Red Bikini Girl incident. In January 1979, 18yo crew member, Liliana Gasinskaya, slipped out of a porthole wearing only a red bikini and swam across the harbour to claim political asylum.
Taken: January 1979
American Tanker SS Tiger 1917, Sinking in shallow water near Cape Henry, Virginia, circa 2 April 1942. Tiger, originally built as a freighter, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-754 just after midnight on 1 April 1942, after she had reduced speed to pick up a pilot before entering Chesapeake Bay. She sank a few days later, while under tow. This ship served as USS Tiger (ID1640)
SS enlisted man wearing camouflaged coveralls over his black panzer wrap, with a regulation issue toque for added warmth.
Stagecoach South Alexander Dennis ADL Pointer GX06DXE 24856 working route KITE Aldershot bus station to Guildford Friary bus station
Olmax Fabrication LLC debut their production version of the SS Trike at the 2009 AMD Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building located at Champions Park in Sturgis, SD. The SS Trike resembles the classic “Big Wheel” Chopper-style design that we all rode as a kid, which is sure to put a smile on your face no matter how old of a kid you are.
Builder Jason Nieman is entered in the Production Class at the World Championships and will be competing for the gold with other storied manufacturers like Brass Balls Bobbers and Choppers, OCC Motorcycles, Big Bear Choppers and Big Dog Motorcycles just to name a few.
The SS Trike comes with a long list of race-breed features including composite body, a 24-inch Olmax Fabrication polished front rim wrapped in a Metzler, American Racing 14-inch rear wheels and digital speedometer. In addition, the trike sports American Suspension front end, 6 speed or automatic transmission, and a choice of power from Ultima, S&S or TP.
The popular automatic transmission option features a bullet-proof design lifted from automotive racing applications, which met Olmax Fabrication LLC reduced weight and packaging requirements. The design is sourced from a General Motors Powerglide system that is a current racing standard, which delivers smooth and consistent shifts.
Extending in the race inspired theme is a custom 2 into 1 performance pipe that connects into a chambered muffler. The dual exhaust pipe at the rear of the trike delivers a healthy rumble that is a cross between a muscle car and a sweet-stroking Harley.
The SS Trike is designed to comfortably accommodate a variety of enthusiasts from 5’ to 6’2” tall in fewer than 5 minutes. Selecting two different seat heights and three different foot control locations is a snap and easy to do.
The SS Trike is available in all primary colors. Additional options include graphics, Wire-Plus digital speedo, air-ride suspension, a solo seat with enclosed trunk, multiple trim treatments and a black or polished engine.
To see the SS Trike in Sturgis check out the production class at the World Championships located at Champions Park in Sturgis, SD. To speak with builder Jason Nieman in Sturgis, call him at 715-630-9090.
About Olmax Fabrication LLC
Olmax is a design company that is expanding its ability into manufacturing of its products. Our goal is to design and manufacture different products, some say out of the box. We do what many innovative businesses do, look for what is not being done or what hasn't been done and then we do that. We try to create a tasteful product with wide appeal.
The Propeller and Rudder.
Making the decision to use a propeller transformed the history of sea travel, today most ships have one two or even three propellers', but bat in 1843 no one had a clue whether this crazy idea would work
Low cost 1/64 modern Chevrolet Camaro models arn't just the preserve of the mighty Hot Wheels brand, Maisto now too have their own version of the 2016 Camaro SS which it uses in its basic range. Its a neat enough casting combining accurate styling with a stock looking paint colour and a smattering of painted detailing, all in all just a typical budget Maisto. Part of a nine vehicle Adventure Force branded set bought from a Wal-Mart where their range is a lot more extensive than the ones we get here in ASDA. Mint and boxed.
In this totally ill-conceived picture taken by a 15 year old 'Renown' is a steam ship with which I was fortunate enough to have first hand knowledge.
The 'Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co' (P&O) had acquired the SS Uganda with the business of 'British India line' (BI), but the ship continued to wear the latter's black and white livery. The near 17,000 ton twin turbine powered 'Uganda' was kitted out as an educational cruise ship for the benefit of students, and it was in that guise that I was fortunate to sample it for a fortnight in 1975 around the Mediterranean and the Middle East. To be honest, I hadn't realised it was steam powered until with a deafening long blast on it's melodious deep toned chime whistle, we left Dubrovnik!
The vessel continued this existence until the Falkland's War of 1982 where she was hastily configured into a hospital ship. Returning from the conflict, a brief spell back in the world of educational cruising again for her until being laid up in the River Fal, Cornwall. In spite of efforts to save her too (see previous posting), her last voyage (Re named SS Triton) was to Taiwan where she became beached by a hurricane... scrapping followed in 1992.
In better times, the tidy looking vessel is seen shortly before our departure to one of the Greek Islands. The picture was taken against the advice of the ship's crew as the Yugoslavian authorities of the time took a dim view of people photographing ports and railways. ... now where's that picture of a train in these docks?!
SS Ayrfield (originally launched as SS Corrimal) was a steel-hulled, single screw, steam collier of 1140 tonnes and 79.1m in length. It was built in the UK in 1911 and registered at Sydney in 1912. It was purchased by the Commonwealth Government and used to transport supplies to American troops stationed in the Pacific region during WWII.
Steamship SS Dicky which was washed ashore in 1893 during a cyclone with a crew of 11 and 40 tonnes of Sand. Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out. SS Dicky is a photographic delight! The skeleton rests on a 800m long pristine beach stretch extending from low rocks at the northern end to a bluff and rock platform at the southern end.