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Me and my kid brother and wheat bread and butter and freshly picked blueberries. Looks like it was a cold day and maybe with some rain. Father's photo.

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Grande Texas. Tilbury. Essex. UK.
A new ECO friendly vehicle carrier.
The wind turbine is not part of the ship - it is one of several providing power to the port.
Please take a few minutes (or hours) to read through the links.
https://en.portnews.ru​/news/307974/
https://www.grimaldi.n​apoli.it/es/read_188.h​tml

RF Marina. River Thames. UK.
RF MARINA (IMO: 9580986) is an Oil/Chemical Tanker built in 2011.
Sailing under the flag of Malta.
Carrying capacity 19118 t DWT. Draught 9.1 meters.
Length 161.68 meters. Width 23 meters.

Father building cabin to the middle of our motorboat.

Leica III 35 mm, digitized from film

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Grand Hero. Docking at Tilbury. UK.
Ro-Ro (Roll on - Roll off) cargo/car carrier. (IMO: 9339806)
Built in 2007 (14 years ago)
Sailing under the flag of Panama.
Carrying capacity 59217 Gross Tons.
Draught 9.2 meters.
Overall (LOA) 199.9 m. Width 32.26 m.

Not what you would normally call a pretty boat Ray.

Also, what happened to the 'sharp end'? In fact which end would normally be classified as the old fashioned sharp end

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19211347
Grand Hero. Docking at Tilbury. UK.
Ro-Ro (Roll on - Roll off) cargo/car carrier. (IMO: 9339806)
Built in 2007 (14 years ago)
Sailing under the flag of Panama.
Carrying capacity 59217 Gross Tons.
Draught 9.2 meters.
Overall (LOA) 199.9 m. Width 32.26 m

That's some ship.
I'm curious if that tug could actually tow it?
Probably daft question so go easy

Jonzjob wrote in post #19212193
Not what you would normally call a pretty boat Ray.

Also, what happened to the 'sharp end'? In fact which end would normally be classified as the old fashioned sharp end

John that's a rather blunt comment
Interesting design though.

Jonzjob wrote in post #19212193
Not what you would normally call a pretty boat Ray.

Also, what happened to the 'sharp end'? In fact which end would normally be classified as the old fashioned sharp end

They’re not really very pretty, John, I agree. But this one seems lightly loaded, maybe it has come to collect some of our exports, but more likely bringing foreign imports in. We get quite a few of these every week. I usually photograph them for the marine traffic website and get plenty of requests from shipping companies for pictures of their ships.

Well, John, I am sure an astute veteran like your good self will realise the sharp end is (or used to be) the opposite end to the blunt end. Usually the chimney is at the blunt end - if it is not in the middle, that is. just like one of your aircraft, the propellers are at the front, unless they are at the back.

avondale87 wrote in post #19212508
That's some ship.
I'm curious if that tug could actually tow it?
Probably daft question so go easy

John that's a rather blunt comment
Interesting design though.

Hi Richard, I was just composing a reply to John when your response popped up.

These tugs are capable of assisting these ships. The tugs are very powerful and there is usually two tugs manoeuvring a big ship onto or off of its berth. Port charges, coupled with the tugs and pilotage run into mega bucks and have to get absorbed into the importation costs. I can’t remember the figures I was quoted some time ago.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19212509
They’re not really very pretty, John, I agree. But this one seems lightly loaded, maybe it has come to collect some of our exports, but more likely bringing foreign imports in. We get quite a few of these every week. I usually photograph them for the marine traffic website and get plenty of requests from shipping companies for pictures of their ships.

Well, John, I am sure an astute veteran like your good self will realise the sharp end is (or used to be) the opposite end to the blunt end. Usually the chimney is at the blunt end - if it is not in the middle, that is. just like one of your aircraft, the propellers are at the front, unless they are at the back.

That's a good way to pay for your hobby Ray, good for you mate!

As far as blunt and sharp? I wasn't really being stern or prow-ed

Or either side, for the props that is

Main Canal, Sete, Aude, France

Svitzer Cecilia. River Thames. Gravesend. Kent. UK.
This is the tug in my earlier posting of Grand Hero. Taken at a different time.
MMSI: 232003119
Call Sign: MNXE5
Flag: United Kingdom [GB]
Gross Tonnage: 364
Summer DWT: 205 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 30.58 x 11.5 m
Year Built: 1991
Home Port: GRIMSBY
Classification Society: LLOYD'S SHIPPING REGISTER
Builder: MCTAY MARINE - BROMBOROUGH, UK
Owner: SVITZER EASTLANDS
Manager: SVITZER MARINE LTD

HaLong harbor, VietNam

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Not sure where to post this, but a fascinating find of an intact old life boat.
Found in the rafters of old barn
All that remains of The Maid of Lincoln which was wrecked and sunk off Jurien Bay, Western Australia in 1891

140 year old life boat, Maid of Lincoln

avondale87 wrote in post #19215692
Not sure where to post this, but a fascinating find of an intact old life boat.
Found in the rafters of old barn
All that remains of The Maid of Lincoln which was wrecked and sunk off Jurien Bay, Western Australia in 1891

140 year old life boat, Maid of Lincoln

Interesting link, Richard, thanks. I can just imagine all the creepy crawlies falling out of that