If you think Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears are the only ones suffering from Fame just be glad your not the captain of this brand new ship! This summer while transiting the Manchester Ship Canal the Container Ship “Arklow Fame” experienced exceptionally strong currents created by the high rainfall experienced in the region.
The silver lining? There are worse choices when naming a ship:
Know a ship with a terrible name? Submit it to our forum.
Pre-Accident photo by Shipspotter William Maclennan:
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We are starting a new feature here on gCaptain titled “Interesting Ship Of The Week” and the first vessel we’d like to share this unusual barge transporter near Krasnoyarskaya Russia.
Unfortunately we don’t have many details but the pictures tell most of the story. Visit EnglishRussia.com for the high resolution images.
UPDATE:
Capdiamont offers the details behind this railed giant;
I can’t find the original source he used, but it is a massive electrically powered rack railway that hauls ships, up and over a dam in Russia. At the top it has a turntable so the locomotive can be turned to keep it’s load straight, no matter which way it goes. Think of the top of the dam as the crest. In order to keep the downhill side always downhill, you have to turn it. This one is unusual because the top of the turntable is slanted to keep the locomotive slanted, so the load stays level. Add to all this, is the massive size of everything. This has to be the longest, and heaviest turntable in the world.
If you look at some of the pictures, you can see the gears to mesh in to the rails. That is my reasoning for it to be a rack railway, even though it doesn’t have the traditional center rack, like you would think. (Source: Capdiamont)
We are glad to get the facts behind this story. Honest thanks also goes out to NavaGear for the English lesson in the comments.
Tags: · barge, canal, cold war relic, Interesting, Maritime, monorail, photos, russia, ship
Deputy Dog brings us “12 stunning lighthouses”. While today’s technology limits their usefulness we at gCaptain agree they are a good backup to have in case… say, the mate on watch is preoccupied with his cell phone.
Click HERE for the photos and HERE for their series on the world’s coolest rocks!
Tags: · boats, design, lighthouse, Maritime, ocean, photos, Ships, warning
After a brief hiatus we return to a popular gCaptain feature “Incident Photo Of The Week“. This weeks photo is the aftermath of a 2002 fire aboard the M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania. The reason for the damage? A container filled with fireworks! CargoLAw.com tells us;
Hanjin Pennsylvania fire “has gutted accommodation & engine room” At least 6 rows of containers on deck & under deck have been effected by the blaze, which is understood to have started in a container carrying fireworks & spread to engulf the area immediately forward of the superstructure. But as the ship continues to burn, and salvage crews are still hampered in their attempts to board the vessel to carry out firefighting operations, experts are already suggesting the likely cause of the explosion was not a container full of fireworks.
CLICK HERE for the dramatic photo of the actual explosion then visit the newly redesigned CargoLaw website for the details; Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
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Tags: · explosion, fire, fireworks, hanjin, incident, Maritime, photos, ship
November 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Shipspotting forum points us to Seven Marine’s photos of a recent heavy lift operation:
The FPSO Sevan Voyageur left Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China this morning. The FPSO is placed onboard a dry tow vessel and is on its way to the Keppel Verolme shipyard for topside hook-up and commissioning. FPSO Sevan Voyageur will be installed on the Shelley field in the central UK North Sea in 2008, under a five year contract with Oilexco North Sea Ltd.
Full sized photos HERE.
Tags: · fpso, fso, Heavy Lift, Interesting, Photo, photos, rig, Sevan-Voyageur, Seven-Marine, ship, shipspotting, submersible
October 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Maybe it’s just because we have fans aboard the DD2 but more likely just because this is an amazing model. It shows the Global SantaFe’s (soon to be Transocean?) Development Driller 1 full equipped for offshore oil exploration and oil field development. To see more photos of the model Click Here.
Tags: · dd2, development_driller, models, offshore_oil_exploration, oil_rig, Photo, photos, semi, Semisubmersible, semi_submersible, ship_models, transocean
September 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments
A quick YouTube video of ships battling heavy seas and rogue waves.
Tags: · boats, heavy-weather, hurricane, Photo, photos, rogue-waves, Ships, slideshow, storms, Video, waves, Weather, youtube
August 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
“Ship of the Week” brings us the fifth in the Maersk E-Class Container Ships and Sister Ship to the Emma Maersk:
The Ebba Maersk (IMO: 9321524, Port of Registry: Copenhagen, Denmark) is already the fifth in line of Maersk’s PS-class. Together with her sisters (amongst which are the ‘Emma Maersk‘ and ‘Evelyn Maersk‘) she is the largest containership ever with a total teu capacity 11,000 teu (of which 1,000 forty foot reefer containers) according to the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Rumours are that a total capacity of 13,500 teu is also possible. This capacity is possible by stacking the containers in 22 rows wide. The vessel is 397 meters long, 56 meters wide, has a depth of 30 meters and a deadweight of 156,907 tons. Amazingly, all this size and capacity requires a crew of only 13.
Read the complete Eba Maersk profile HERE and check back with Ship of the Day… well… daily.
Sistership Emma Maersk links;
Tags: · Container Ship, container_ship, elly, Elly Maersk Maiden, emma_maersk, fire, Fire Incidents, fire on the Emma Maersk, Firefighting, Incidents, Interesting, largest, maersk, Maersk safety, marine_firefighting, Maritime Expert, Photo, photos, Ships, Shipyard, Video, world largest maersk vessel, world-record, youtube
Here is a random selection of the best (and worst) photos of the coal ship “Pasha Bulker” grounded on Nobby’s Beach courtesy of Flickr.
Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
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For those unfamiliar with the infamous ship that ran aground on a popular beach in Newcastle, Australia read our past Pasha Bulker stories HERE .
If you liked this then see our similar “Best Ship Photos Slideshow” or our “Most Outrageous Ship Photos” post. The second link is not a slideshow but has some fascinating pictures none-the-less.
*Note, these are updated live from Flickr, therefore we can’t prevent wrongly tagged photos. If your browser doesn’t support the show try this.
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….and for our favorite Pasha Bulker photo:
Pasha Bulker
Tags: · beached, beached-ship, Bulk Ship, bulker, grounding, Lifesaving Incidents, Maritime Expert, Master Mariner, nobby, pasha-bulker, Photo, photos, ship, slideshow
The Emma Maersk is a true Modern Marvel. The world largest container ship, longest ship currently in service and is propelled by the largest diesel engine ever manufactured. By mid-year 2006 the construction project was going well when on June 9th the accommodation block was devastated by fire.
Shipping Gazette
The Emma Mærsk was about six–seven weeks delayed. The delay caused by a devastating fire in the accommodation quarters in the early days of June. A welding job on the main deck, close to the end of working hours, led to a fire that totally destroyed the almost finished accommodation quarters and all the equipment in the wheelhouse.
The fire was large and devastating. Here are the photos and video taken by the local fire brigade: [Continue Reading →]
Emma Maersk Shipyard Fire - Largest Containership in the world [1:27m]:
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