The above photo of the Norwegian Gem was from our failed attempt at an Ugly Ship category on gCaptain. The idea was good but our regular readers didn’t care to see these eyesores of modern construction litter this blog’s homepage. What the idea needed was a separate website! Lucky for us someone else, ShipSpotting photographer Sea-Bart, has run with the idea in launching UglyShips.com.
Here are a few gems from the collection: [Continue Reading →]
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CDR Salamander features China’s largest FPSO on Ugly Ship Thursday. He writes;
A ship only a Captain could love. I don’t think anyone will be making those cool mahogany models of it anytime soon, but I ask you to BEHOLD and up close and personal shot of the 300,000 DWT $230 million Hai Yang Shi You 117, China’s biggest floating production, storage and offloading vessel.
Our Ugly Ship pick is the Norwegian Gem, as photographed by the Lisbon Cruise Bog:
The Fairmont Summit is not much prettier but it is a working ship.
Can you believe an FPSO can actually be beautiful or that people actually pay to board the Norwegian Gem? Shocking, we know.
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