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Engl:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_training_ship_Amerigo_Vespucci
Taken with a Nikon Coolpix P1000.
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I'm not a big fan of overly busy scenes but strangely enough, this one appealed to me. I liked the simplicity of the two men walking in the shadow of this big laker with all the mooring lines on the right, the light posts and banners on the left, and the buildings at the end. Even more strangely, I didn't sharpen the image and instead of cleaning up any noise, I added a bit. Somehow it all worked better this way - at least to my eyes! Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
'NSS Endeavour' iron ore carrier coming through the channel at Port Hedland, the "Port of the Big Ships."
A windy day in Orkney, just like winter - only warmer!
Cruise ship Sirena getting a push-on by tug with the wind blowing Beaufort 8 off the berth.
A vivid pink cargo ship, "ONE HARBOUR," adds a bold and colorful touch to Hamburg’s bustling port. Contrasting against the industrial backdrop of stacked shipping containers and cranes, this eye-catching vessel stands out as a symbol of modern maritime transport. With seagulls in flight and deep blue waters below, this scene captures the dynamic energy of international shipping and trade.
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i've probably taken a million of these photos over the past few months - ships sailing out of the bay in the distance, and people in the water, despite the fact even going near the water is enough to induce frostbite to my feet.
Even this late in the year the ice is still thick enough for the fishermen and big as these ships are, they wont be going anywhere soon.
Hercules was built in 1907 by John H. Dialogue and Sons, of Camden, New Jersey. She was built for the Shipowners' and Merchants' Tugboat Company of San Francisco, as part of their Red Stack Fleet. After completion, Hercules was sailed to San Francisco via the Straits of Magellan with her sister ship, Goliah, in tow.
For the first part of her life, Hercules was an oceangoing tug. Because of the prevailing northwest winds, sailing ships often employed Hercules and her sisters on journeys north up the coast from San Francisco. For example, in 1916, Hercules towed C.A. Thayer to Port Townsend, Washington. On return trips back down the coast, Hercules often towed log rafts of Pacific Northwest timber, to Southern California mills. At other times, Hercules was employed towing barges to other ports on the West Coast and to Hawaii, and in transporting equipment for the construction of the Panama Canal.
In 1924, Hercules was acquired by the Western Pacific Railroad. For her new owners, she worked shuttling railroad car floats across San Francisco Bay from Oakland and Alameda to San Francisco. She worked in this role until 1957, when she was replaced by the diesel-powered train ferry Las Plumas. Hercules was kept in a stand-by role to the new ferry until 1961.
The California State Park Foundation acquired Hercules in 1975, and the National Park Service took over her restoration in 1977. In 1986 she was designated a National Historic Landmark. She is now one of the exhibits of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and is to be found moored at the park's Hyde Street Pier.
Hercules from the TV show Tugs is based on this vessel. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(1907)
Taken with a Sony Cybershot DSC-RX1R Full Frame camera in Auto-HDR mode.
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We had a lovely day out yesterday, walking around the Nothe garden area of Weymouth. There were seven liners anchored out there, a couple I didn't recognise. Working in Southampton I drive past liners berthed in the docks on my way to work and this is one I hadn't seen before. I checked it out and it is the Norwegian Encore. She cost 1 billion dollars and was only launched last summer. I read on-line that she was scheduled to homeport in New York in summer 2020 and then sail to Bermuda, the Maritimes, and New England, before moving back to Miami in winter 2020 to cruise the Western Caribbean, In spring 2021, she is meant to make her first full Panama Canal transit to be deployed to Seattle for her first summer Alaska season. Instead of which she is sat out in the bay at Weymouth in England along with 6 other liners.
We had a fantastic meal: Phill had monkfish and I chose my favourite scallops. The restaurant was safe and felt very safe. Our waitress was Swedish!
The Ruby Princess is in drydock in Esquimalt BC Canada for a 10-day stop while 350 Victoria Shipyards workers go flat out to complete a vessel refit. Cruise-ship work and other contracts are pushing the size of the workforce to a peak of more than 800.
The value of the cruise ship job alone is in the $4-million to $5-million range, it includes installing two massive emission scrubbers and replacing bow thrusters. Princess has brought in 350 of its own staff, who in their spare time head to downtown Victoria and spend money. A sailboat race was in progress in Esquimalt Harbour on a mild Sunday afternoon with temperatures around 11º C. Ruby Princess was built by Fincantieri (Monfalcone-Trieste, Italy) at a cost of US $400,000,000. She has 19 decks, a crew of 1,200 and carries 3,080 passengers.
Taken with a DJI Mavic Pro drone.
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You could not pay me enough to cruise on a ship of this size. Looks like rows and tiers of prison cells IMO.
The Maasdam (1258 passengers, 580 crew) passes the monstrous Anthem of the Seas (4905 passengers and 1500 crew) as we leave Halifax Harbour.
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Exposure settings: f/4, 0.003 sec (1/400), ISO 100, 12 mm
Location: Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany.
A bit off level, but still the same uncropped ratio. B/W conversion and toned with Solid Color adjustment layer at 70% in Color layer mode.
Description: Undocking of Celebrity Solstice.
The undockiing of the largest cruiseship ever built in Germany - at the world's largest building dock after the 500+m dock extension has been finished by a couple of months - is quite some happening on a windy Sunday morning starting at 7am. Over 200 photographs were shot and a lot of processing to go :) For those who are interested, here's a link to a selection of low-res originals that I've uploaded for different ship-related news sites and newspapers.
The new ship for Celebrity Cruises (Miami/USA), Celebrity Solstice, undocked from the Meyer Werft’s covered building dock II in Papenburg (DL) on Sunday, 10 August 2008. The weather conditions were favorable, despite a strong wind. The ship's two funnels, for instance, will be mounted on the following Monday. The river Ems passage to the sea trials port in Eemshaven (Netherlands) will take place on 27 September 2008.
The new ship has a length overall of 315 m, a breadth of 36.80 m, and will be able to operate at a speed of more than 24 knots.. More than 2,858 passengers can be accommodated in 1,426 cabins. That makes this cruiser the largest cruiseship ever built in Germany.
Some additional ship facts:
Occupancy: 2,850
Tonnage: 122,000
Length: 1,033 ft
Beam: 121 ft
Draught: 27 ft
Cruise Speed: 24 kts
Inaugural Date: Nov 23, 2008
For more information, please visit Meyer Werft Papenburg & Celebrity Cruises.
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I still want to work out the best picture I can get from the boat in low light conditions. The one I show here is from a stackthat has had some murderous post processing, I found that I could not tolerate exposures longer than 1/3 second because the boat was gently swining on its mooring, and I set the ISO at 1600. Even then, my Nikon D5300 was producing a lot of pattern noise. I hit this with Nik Define, and Noise reduction in Affinity (with a little noise added back). Then I used a High Pass Filter (as well as Nik Tonal Contrast). Definitely not as high quality as a long exposure with camera on a tripod on shore, but there is no way you could get the angle I could. Judges in competitions never take account of these practical issues, wthich makes me a bit less interested in taking part in competitions. Am I wrong?
This ship is a monster. 1300+ft long. nearly 200ft wide, and about 20,000 teu containers.
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Engagement 2,400+
Ship Listed as CLIPPER APOLLONIA from 2019
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Outbound upper River Clyde for Sea
Amid some beefy showers and bitter winds the Bulker Sentosa Bulker makes her unladen departure from the narrows of the Clyde whilst passing Clydebank with the assistance of two tugs.
The building on the right is the Golden Jubilee Hospital and going across the picture is the Erskine Bridge and after a few twists & turns , the ship would go under.
VESSEL BUILDER
Constructed Jiangmen China 2010
by Nanyang
20,809grt
Singapore flagged
IMO 9527996
NAMING HISTORY
2010-2019 > SENTOSA BULKER ( 9 Years )