ship
Measure twice
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2009-11-03 12:18Oasis of The Seas passing under The Great Belt Bridge
I would have been worried, I don't care how many times I measured it... read more »
X-bow - modern interpretation of ancient design
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2009-08-31 10:59High speed turn
Submitted by cac on Sun, 2009-08-30 10:01This has been floating around the net a bit... impressive to me to see a ship that size making maneuvers like that. (Click the picture for a full size version).
Yes, they saved the ship
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2009-05-25 22:32
Interesting read... so many of these seem to end in the ship breaking up.
Night Run II
Submitted by cac on Wed, 2009-05-06 10:43Ship Launch Videos
Submitted by cac on Sun, 2008-02-24 21:21Somehow walking around under those ships and knocking supports out just seems "wrong" somehow.
Launching "Niledutch Hong Kong""
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Personal Battleship
Submitted by cac on Sun, 2008-02-17 17:46read more »
Sea Shadow to be scrapped
Submitted by cac on Sat, 2011-06-18 22:40Always hate to see a ship scrapped, but I guess the time has to come eventually.
The Sea Shadow was a testbed of the U.S. Navy for stealth ship technologies. She's been out of service since 2006 and the Navy wasn't able to find a museum willing to take her on. read more »
World's First Aircraft Carrier - Pictures
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2011-01-04 14:36We think of modern aircraft carriers and the incredible power and grace of those ships, but often don't think about the early days of naval aviation.
In late 1910 and early 1911 the first takeoffs and landings onboard ships were successfully performed. This article has some interesting pictures of the USS Birmingham, considered to be the world's first aircraft carrier.
Philadelphia Ship Model Society
Submitted by cac on Thu, 2010-11-04 18:00I got my boating "start" with R/C boat models... always fun to see them afloat.
