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RMS Strathnaver and tug James Paterson photographed in Australia by Allan C.Green (prob.) in the 1930s. My colorization of the original image in the State Library Victoria archive.
"RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was the first of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but Strathnaver and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters" or just "The White Sisters". Strathnaver and her sister ships RMS Strathaird and RMS Strathmore were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Strathnaver remained in service for just over 30 years, being scrapped in 1962." (Wikipedia)
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The Carpathia was the first ship on the scene after the Titanic sank in 1912. It raced at high speeds through waters filled with icebergs to reach the survivors. Its crew pulled 705 men, women and children from lifeboats bobbing in the icy water.
On July 17, 1918, during the First World War, the Carpathia was traveling in a convoy from England to Boston when it was struck by two torpedoes from a German U-boat and began to sink. A third torpedo hit the ship as the lifeboats were being manned. Five crewmembers died, while the rest of the crew were rescued.
Prompt: Using the referenced historical image of the RMS Carpathia as the sole visual reference, create an ultra-realistic digital fine art painting that preserves the ship’s exact identity, proportions, hull form, superstructure layout, mast configuration, funnel shape and color (brick-red with black cap), deck arrangement, lifeboat placement, and period-accurate maritime details. On the bow the text "RMS Carpathia", Maintain historical fidelity and correct scale throughout.
Reimagine the scene with RMS Carpathia battling a rough open sea at sunset, with no shoreline, land, docks, or background structures visible anywhere in the frame. Surround the vessel with wind-driven waves and heavy swells, deep blue-green water with whitecaps, foam, and spray striking the hull. The ship should be underway, cutting through the waves with a strong forward motion, bow lifting and plunging naturally into the seas.
Lighting is dramatic sunset maritime light: a low sun near the horizon, muted crimson tones across broken cloud layers, contrasting with cool stormy blues in the sea. Subtle rim lighting outlines the hull, masts, and funnel, while realistic shadows and reflected sunset color ripple across wet steel plating and rolling water. Smoke from the funnel drifts naturally with the wind, softly illuminated by the sunset glow.
Camera perspective is ultra-wide and cinematic, positioned slightly above the waterline, emphasizing the ship’s full length and scale while maintaining natural proportions (no distortion). Composition is horizontal, with the vessel slightly off-center to allow expansive sky and turbulent sea for dramatic balance and depth.
Rendering style is hyper-realistic digital fine art realism with museum-quality detail: crisp edges, finely resolved steel textures, accurate rigging lines, realistic wave physics, atmospheric depth, and seamless integration between ship, sea, and sky. No noise, no grain, no blur, no painterly exaggeration, no modern elements. Output a single image in 4K resolution, horizontal aspect ratio, pristine and clean, suitable for large-format fine-art display.
This digital fine art was created using OpenAI Sora AI and Photoshop
2022.06.30
Bremerhaven
AIS Name RMS WANHEIM
Type General cargo
Flag Liberia
IMO 8920268
MMSI 636017466
Callsign D5LC2
Year Built 1990
Length 82 m
Width 12 m
Draught Avg 4.0 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max 14.3 kn
Deadweight 2620 tons
Gross Tonnage 1985
AIS Class A
Lifeboat from the RMS Mauretania.
A rainy and misty day on the North Norfolk marshes I was informed with authority that this was a lifeboat from the RMS Mauretania.
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RMS CUXHAVEN
GRIMSBY >>> WHITSTABLE
Whitstable
IMO: 9218533 - Built 2001
General Cargo - 80.25m X 11.42m
On investigation, it was discovered that the chief officer—who had been on watch at the time—had caught his trousers in the lever of his chair when trying to get up, causing him to fall and rendering him unconscious. By the time he regained consciousness, RMS Mülheim was already bearing down on the shoreline.
RMS CUXHAVEN
GRIMSBY >>> WHITSTABLE
Whitstable
IMO: 9218533 - Built 2001
General Cargo - 80.25m X 11.42m
RMS Olympic in her 1913 configuration, featuring a full compliment of lifeboats.
Made in PMG 0.6, Cropped in paint in order to capture the outline as water.
RMS Tharsis heading up the Humber to the port of Goole. She is a 1801 ton coaster built 2012 and registered in the Netherlands.
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic between USA and England from May 1936 until December 1967. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers for the duration of the war. r. Queen Marywas one of the largest and fastest two troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often traveling out of convoy and without escort. Their high speed made it difficult for U boats to catch her. Following the war Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service.
Once open a times sailing Queen, permanently moored as a tourist attraction, hotel, museum, and event facility in Long Beach, CA since 1971. Queen Mary accompanied by Scorpion Class Russian submarine and it is next to the large dome which was home of Howard Hughes' plane Spruce Goose. Dome is used by cruise lines as aship terminal now.
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Engagement 2,300+
Inbound through Clyde Anchorage from Sea
RMS Laar is pictured heading east upstream through Greenock Anchorage with still well over an hour to reach her destination up the Clyde at Glasgow.
VESSEL BUILDER
Constructed Germany 1985
by Peters Schiffswerft
Rhenus Maritime Services (RMS)
Duisburg Germany
Antigua & Barbuda flagged
1,570grt
IMO 8508400
NAMING HISTORY
1985-2003 > GEORG LUHRS ( 18 Years )
Shot on film in Long Beach, California, USA, 2001/2002
RMS Queen Mary was one of the largest liners ever launched. She was in active service from 1936 to 1967 and has since been permanently moored in Long Beach, California, where she serves as a floating hotel, museum, and tourist attraction.
Legend has it that this liner was supposed to be christened "Queen Victoria". But when the managing director of Cunard called King George V to ask for permission to name the new ship after "the greatest queen of England", the king answered: "Oh thank you, my wife will be delighted!"
Camera: Leica R4 (10064)
Lens: Leitz Summicron-R 50 mm
Kodak Gold 100 consumer grade colour negative film, converted to B&W in post-processing
Developed in 2001/2002
Scanned in 2019 by www.meinfilmlab.de
This ship was wrecked in 2003 and has been gradually beaten up by the sea. It happened because the Officer of the Watch got up from his seat and his trousers caught in the chair. He fell and was knocked unconcious. When he came around, it was headed for the rocks
RMS TITANIC,..THE LAST KNOWN PHOTO.! (maiden voyage) Its mid-afternoon, April 11,1912...and shes steaming, westbound to New York, off the Irish Coast (Queenstown),with nothing but ocean ahead. And..in a little over 3 days travel she would be at the BOTTOM of the North Atlantic...April 15,2am.,after side swiping a huge iceberg, just off the Grand Banks (Newfoundland) ..Smoke from #3 stack indicates firemen laying down new bed of coal in those boilers..stack 4 was a 'dummy' used for fresh air-ventilation purposes ONLY
The water-tanker, RMS Watercourse, sailing down the River Thames and passing Coalhouse Point. Usually based on the nearby River Medway and currently at Gillingham.
Sketch A3 au bic bleu, tracé direct
Pointillisme
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La loi du contraste simultané des couleurs
Elle a été énoncé en 1839 par le chimiste Eugène Chevreul dans un ouvrage intitulé "De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés", où il analyse la lumière et la couleur. À l’usage du peintre, on retiendra le ton local : la couleur propre d’un objet.
Ce ton local, selon Chevreul, n’existe pas en soi, mais il est dépendant de la couleur des objets environnants.
Ainsi toute couleur perçue appelle sa complémentaire pour exister.
L’œil a tendance à appeler la couleur manquante, la complémentaire pour former un équilibre neutre dans notre cerveau.
D’autre part, à partir de deux taches de couleurs différentes, l’œil opère ce que l’on appelle un mélange optique, c’est-à-dire que ces deux couleurs (ou plus), distinctes sont perçues simultanément comme une combinaison, une fusion en une nouvelle couleur.
Ce principe a notamment été utilisé par les impressionnistes et les pointillistes. Au lieu d'employer un vert mélangé sur la palette (mélange mécanique), ils appliquaient sur la toile une touche de jaune juxtaposée à une touche de bleu, de façon à ce que la couleur se mélange par simple perception : d'où le terme mélange optique.
Cette découverte toujours valable, est abondamment utilisée dans les procédés de reproduction photomécanique (sérigraphie, imprimerie...).
Les surfaces colorées sont décomposées en points ou en trames de couleurs séparées (trois couleurs primaires + le noir = la quadrichromie), qui se fondent dans l'œil du spectateur...
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National Camera Day 2025 On the RMS Queen Mary.
The RMS Queen Mary, docked in long beach. As shot from the port bow.
Camera: Nikon FE2
Film: Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600
I saw this fenced propeller while walking to the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool, England, but had no idea what it was or why it would be there. Approaching it, I saw a sign that identified it as one of the propellers from the RMS Lusitania. I was mesmerized by what I saw, and spent about 5 minutes beside it. I don't think that anyone else came by to see it during the time that I was there.
A sign beside the propeller reads as follows:
"This propeller was one of four from the Liverpool based passenger liner RMS Lusitania (1907). She sailed between Liverpool and New York until she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915 with the loss of 1,201 lives. Lusitania and her sister ship Mauretania were owned by Liverpool's Cunard Line and carried passengers and mail on regular services to the USA. Lusitania held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger vessel, making the journey in under 4.5 days. This propeller was fitted in 1909 to improve her speed*.
Lusitania continued her transatlantic run after the outbreak of World War I until she was torpedoed and sank in under twenty minutes, off the coast of southern Ireland. People were outraged by the deliberate targeting of a passenger ship and Lusitania's fate still causes controversy today."
*Lusitania originally had three-bladed propellers, per the sign.
The following information appears on the website of the nearby Merseyside Maritime Museum:
"This 15 ton, four-bladed propeller is one of four which drove the Cunard liner Lusitania across the Atlantic on her tragic final voyage in May 1915. It was the most complete of the three salvaged from the wreck off Southern Ireland in 1982 and was purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1989. The propeller has been displayed on the museum’s historic quaysides ever since. Each year on 7 May, the anniversary of the sinking of the ship by the German submarine U-20**, a service of commemoration is held at the propeller for the 1200 victims of this incident."
**I've read elsewhere that the U-20 was used to sink 36 other ships. In 1916, it went aground after sustaining engine damage, and was destroyed by its crew.
Harland & Wolff workers posing with the Olympic's propellers before its launch from dry dock after a two month refit. (Belfast, Ireland, Jan 1924).
The RMS Olympic and Titanic utilized an advanced propulsion system for the time designed by chief engineer Alexander Carlisle that consisted of two reciprocating engines and a steam turbine. The two outer propellers each had three blades that measured seven metres in diameter and were driven by their own four-cylinder triple-expansion piston engines that produced up to 15,000Hp each. The middle propeller had four blades on Olympic (Titanic had a three bladed central propeller) and measured five metres in diameter was driven by a low-pressure Parsons steam turbine that was powered by the exhaust steam from the piston engines and produced 16,000Hp. The propulsion system was powered by 24 double-ended and five single-ended Scotch boilers that generated steam at a pressure of 215Psi. The Olympic's total power output was estimated at 51,000 shaft horsepower, enabling it to reach a maximum speed of 23 knots (43Km/h). That speed for its size was comparable to some of the fastest ocean liners of the day such as the Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania that could reach speeds of up to 26 knots (48 Km/h).
Following the Titanic disaster, the Olympic under went a major upgrade and refit starting in October 1912. A double hull was added, as well as increasing the watertight bulkhead height to the deck level. At the same time new parlour suites were added and the Cafe Parisian that was originally exclusive to Titanic. During World War I, the Olympic was requisitioned by the Admiralty and was converted into a troopship transporting up to 6,000 soldiers across the Atlantic. After the war, the Olympic underwent another major refit in 1919 which involved converting her from a coal-burner to an oil-burner reducing her fuel consumption, crew size and time spent port. She received new boilers, propellers, generators and electrical wiring. Her interiors were also renovated with new flooring, furniture and lighting.
Original Image Source: External link.
Crop, repair, upscale, colorize: RyanN81
Information Source: External link
Video of Olympic Repairs 1929: External link (Thanks to Titanic Films by Mark)
A product of BR Derby works in the Autumn of 1959 as D3789, 08622 is seen undergoing attention at RMS Locotec's maintenance facility at Wolsingham. The loco is receiving a repaint in addition to repairs.
On Explore #368, December 02, 2008
I just happen to like this grand old ship, having crawled around as much of the ship as possible and even into some areas I probably shouldn't have, I was fascinated with all the nooks and crannies this vessel has to offer.
Exposure: 0.3 sec (3/10) handheld
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 115 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Wikipedia says...RMS Queen Mary is an ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After their release from World War II troop transport duties, Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary's retirement in 1967. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is permanently berthed in Long Beach, California serving as a museum ship and hotel
The wreck of the "RMS Mülheim" at Castle Zawn, between Sennen Cove and Land's End, Cornwall.
On 22nd March 2003, RMS Mülheim was on a voyage from Cork, Ireland to Lübeck, Germany, transporting 2,200 tonnes of scrap car plastic.
Allegedly the officer on watch went to stand up and got his trousers caught on the seat adjustment lever. This caused him to fall and knock himself out. He regained consciousness but not in time to avoid the ship grounding in Gamper Bay.
The crew were rescued by helecopter but the ship was declared a total loss. A salvage firm managed to remove most of the cargo.
The following October the wreck was observed to have broken in two and a few weeks later the sea drove the remains further along the coast to Castle Zawn.
The stern section remains recognisable in 2019, surrounded with many tons of steel debris, twisted and folded like paper by the power of the Atlantic waves.
11th September 2019.
RMS Orizaba was a mail steamer wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905. On her approach to Fremantle, a smog of bushfire smoke was obscuring the coast and the captain lost his bearings. The ship went aground in 6.1 metres (20 ft) of water on Five Fathom Bank, west of Garden Island.
All 160 people on board were evacuated safely. It is one of the largest ships ever to be wrecked in Australian waters.
In 2014 the wreck was still in use as a dive site.
A line-up of five freshly overhauled RMs outside the works offices, on 6th October 1977 at a time when these overhauls were still taking place at a rapid pace.
A model of the passenger liner RMS Mauretania at the Science Museum, South Kensington, 15 November 2008.
One of the great Trans-Atlantic liners, the RMS Mauretania was designed by Cunard’s naval architect Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, being launched in 1906 and completed in 1907 (as was her sister RMS Lusitania, though she was built by John Brown, Clydebank). The Mauretania was built for the Cunard Line’s Liverpool – New York service and held the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from 1909-29, an amazing length of time when many Trans-Atlantic liners were being built, each a notable advance on its predecessors.
The Mauretania had turbines of 68,000 shp although on her record run these engines developed 76,000 shp and in 1928 they were uprated to 90,000 shp. She had four screws and a designed service speed of 24 kts. The Mauretania measured 790 ft x 88 ft x 33 ft, weighed 31,938 tons gross and was the largest ship in the world from 1907-10 (the Lusitania was not quite as heavy).
On the outbreak of WWI both Mauretania and Lusitania were considered for conversion to Armed Merchant Cruisers but their size and heavy coal consumption meant they were unsuitable. Lusitania, still in passenger service, was sunk by a U - boat in 1915, and in that year Mauretania was converted to a troopship and then a hospital ship for the Gallipoli campaign. She reverted to a troopship the next year, carrying Canadian and later US troops to Europe. She was returned to Cunard in 1919.
When the North German Line's Bremen broke the Mauretania’s speed record in 1929, the Mauretania was extensively overhauled in an attempt to win back the Blue Riband but she failed by just a fraction, reaching 28 kts in the process; an admirable attempt by a ship 20 years older than the Bremen and from a different generation technologically.