Outstanding vessels

[Guillermo]

I propose this new thread where to post and comment about outstanding vessels af all types (more powerful, big, luxurious, etc), like this "leviathan":

The EMMA MAERSK:
Owner: A. P. Moller-Maersk Group
Builder: Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd, Denmark
Type: Container ship
Tonnage: 170,974 GT, 55,396 NT
Length: 397 metres (1,300 ft) LOA
Beam: 56 metres (180 ft)
Draft: 15.5 metres (51 ft)
Depth: 30 metres (98 ft) (deck edge to keel)
Propulsion: 80 MW (109,000 hp) Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c plus 30 MW (40,000 hp) from five Caterpillar 8M32
Weight of engine: 2,300 tons
Speed: over 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h/29.3 mph)
Capacity: 156,907 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)
11,000 TEU (14 ton) or 15,200 TEU (volume)
1000 TEU (Reefers)
Crew: 13, with room for 30

Some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk
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http://www.emma-maersk.info/

A very nice set of photos:
http://www.jtashipphoto.dk/jtashipphoto.dk%201/Emma%20Maersk/emma_maersk_3.htm

Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

hello Guillermo
I have seen her before, truly stunning
the woman who bought Nimbus is a partner somehow with Maersk, when i see her next I will ask her about the ship
i sent you a powerpoint slide show of her, building etc, but dunno how to post it here

[lazeyjack]

this is the fate of ships, esp steam turbines, it actaully breaks ones heart
i used admire the ACT ships when i lived on Ak harbour, I loved the flare in the bows

ACT 5

Length 712Ft 9ins Beam 95Ft 3ins Draft 34Ft 6ins Grt 24,212 Net 14,234 Powered by By 2 Laval Steam Turbines by Bremer Vulcan Schiffbaum & Machinenfabrik, of Vegesack. Germany.
Reduction geared to a single shaft. 3 x Brotherhood Turbo Altrnators of 1360Kw @ 12000 rpm and 2 x Paxman Diesel Generators 2 x Dujardin 8 Cylinder Allans of 850kw.

1971 Launched from the yard of Bremer Vulcan Schiffbaum & Machinenfabrik, of Vegesack. Germany on the 3rd November as a Refrigerated Modular Containership for Blue Star Line Ltd and named ACT 5. She was completed in February 1972.

1987 In March she was re engined as a motor ship at I.H.I Yokohama Japan.

1991 Transferred to Blue Star Line and renamed Sydney Star.

1998 Sold to P & O Nedlloyd Line but was operated under Blue Star Line's colours.

2003 She arrived on the 24th January at Jiangyin for demolition.

[lazeyjack]

maybe the last of the graceful liners? Canberra

[Guillermo]

Maybe. A concept away from this not yet launched "Oasis of the Seas"

Data:
Shipyard: Aker Yards, Finland.
Owner: Royal Caribbean International
Launching late 2009
Tonnage: 220,000 GRT
Displacement: app. 100,000 tons
Length: 1,181 ft (360 m)
Beam: 154 ft (47 m)
Height: 213 ft (65 m) above water line
Draft: 30 ft (9 m)
Decks: 16 Passenger Decks
Installed power: 8 Wärtsilä V12 Engine @ 17,500 hp each
Propulsion: 3 × 20 MW Asea Brown Boveri Azipod, all azimuthing
Speed: 20.2 kn (37.4 km/h/23.2 mph)
Capacity: 5,400 passengers double occupancy (about 7,300 including third and fourth passengers)
Crew: TBD

Will be the world's largest passenger vessel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oasis_of_the_Seas

Cheers.

[RHP]

Guillermo, I struggle to accept the concept of function over style. I´m not sure I could stand to be in such close confines with so many other people.

My ideal cruise would be to walk around the decks feeling at one with nature and the sea, not sharing a confined space with thousands of other passengers. I would prefer to cross an ocean on the Maersk Emma than your cruise liner eving though teh food would be somewhat dodgey in comparison!

[Butch .H]

Yes it would be like being in a shopping mall .You may catch a glimpse of the sea now and then

[lazeyjack]

I dislike that superliner G, very much, its lines do not please the eye at all, but then hey its only my eye:))cut off the sharp end and you have, a nice moderrn ugly block of flats

[lazeyjack]

compare the last of the great translantic builds
* Built at Penhoet, St. Nazaire as FRANCE Yard #G19
* 66,348 GRT
* 1,035 x 110.5 feet
* Quadruple Screw, geared CEM-Parsons geared turbines from builders
* Service speed 30 knots, max 35.21 knots
* 160,000 shaft horsepower
* 407 First Class, 1,637 Tourist Class passengers

[Guillermo]

Yeap! I also like more the old liners lines and also agree on not liking crowded places either; neither do I have the need to feel myself like being in a town's street, mall or whatever when aboard. :eek:
But no doubt 'Oasis of the Seas' will be an outstanding vessel.
Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

Yeap! I also like more the old liners lines and also agree on not liking crowded places either; neither do I have the need to feel myself like being in a town's street, mall or whatever when aboard. :eek:
But no doubt 'Oasis of the Seas' will be an outstanding vessel.
Cheers.

the continuing developent of the modern crosshead, has made it less costly(comparitively) to build these liners again, and the fuel rate shp/gramme keeps dropping
there is no doubt that the modern 2 cycle, is a wondrous thing,
awesome,
The Russians and Norwegians work together to convert from weapons grade fuel in the fleet to safer less desirable (for theft) fuel I am a quilified diesel fitter, but I prefer Nuclear I just dont have the grey matter to completley understand the design of reactor, but It is a facinating thing to study

[Butch .H]

Look who came to visit Cape Town

[RHP]

I wouldnt want to have to park that. :D

[Butch .H]

I remember seeing the older ones in Mombassa during the Vietnam war. Thats where I learnd to smoke Cammel:D :D :D

[eponodyne]

Guillermo, I struggle to accept the concept of function over style. I´m not sure I could stand to be in such close confines with so many other people.

My ideal cruise would be to walk around the decks feeling at one with nature and the sea, not sharing a confined space with thousands of other passengers. I would prefer to cross an ocean on the Maersk Emma than your cruise liner eving though teh food would be somewhat dodgey in comparison!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I worked as a cook for Norwegian Cruise Lines just last year. Trust me, the food on the Emma Maersk is probably just as good if not better.

[Guillermo]

The world's largest trimaran:

Nom : Maxi Banque Populaire V
Type : Maxi trimaran océanique
Longueur : 40 m
Largeur : 23 m
Déplacement : 23 t
Tirant d’eau : 5.80 m
Tirant d’air : 45 m

http://www.voile.banquepopulaire.fr/
http://yachtpals.com/banque-populaire-3054

[dougfrolich]

The best of the best
The Big U

The shame is this is the best picture I can find of the old girl.

[lazeyjack]

how are they steering that tri? and wot is the liner , I can not read her name
when I was 4 my mother took us to NY on The Queen Mary
I remember, asking the steward,"how do you clean the eggcups" they were silver
he said " we do not, we send them down the scuttle, there are more where they came from!"" it is my earliest memory

[Guillermo]

Doug,
Here some web pages for the 'Big U':
http://www.ssunitedstates-film.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States
She was once the fastest ship in the world.

Google Images for 'SS United States', you'll find a wealth of them.

Cheers.

[Guillermo]

Last Friday Queen Elizabeth II visited for a few hours the port of Getxo in north Spain before departuring for Dubai, where she'll lay as a 7 stars hotel. Attached some images from this short visit, sent by a good friend.

She still is the longest, tallest, widest and heaviest passenger ship ever constructed. The ship measures 1138.5 feet (345 meters) long, 135.3 feet (41 meters) wide, 237.6 meters (72 meters) tall, and weighing some 150,000 tonnes. The ship accomodates 2,630 passengers and features five swimming pools, 14 restaurants, 24 massage parlors and an art gallery.


Cheers.

[Guillermo]

Largest ice breaker ever built: the "NS 50 Years Since Victory" a russian nuclear mammoth, designed to break through ice up to 2.8 meters thick.

Owner: Russian Federation
Builder: Baltic Works in Leningrad, USSR/Saint Petersburg, Russia
Yard number: 705
Laid down: October 4, 1989
Launched: 1993
Commissioned: 2007-03-12
Maiden voyage: 2007
Homeport: Murmansk, Russia
Identification: IMO number 9152959
Call sign UGYU
Fate: active in service

Class and type: Ice breaker, Arktika class,
Russian class "KM(*) LL1 [2] A"
Tonnage: 23439 metric tons gross
Displacement: 25840t
Length: 159.60 m (524 ft)
Beam: 30.00 m (28.00 m at the waterline)
Draught: 11.08 m
Depth: 17.2 m
Ice class: LL1
Installed power: 2 27,600 kW (37,012 hp) Nuclear reactors, model "TGG-27,5 OM5"
Propulsion: 3 17,600 kW (23,602 hp) electric propulsion motors
Speed: up to 21.4 knots (39.6 km/h)
Endurance: 4 years
Capacity: 128 passengers
Crew: 140 crew members


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_50_Years_Since_Victory

[lazeyjack]

yes I know about these ships, , after tugs they are my favourite, now the Russians work with Norway to convert to a less weapons friendly grade of Uranium on the fleet of subs and warships, as there is much "mysterious" disappearance of fuel

[StianM]

http://www.marinelog.com/IMAGESMMVII/acergy468.jpg

I love the new aker design

And this one is great

[Guillermo]

Wonderful design!

Skandi Acergy's specs here:
http://www.acergy-group.com/publicroot/webresources/7CGCKXMGIY/$file/Skandi%20Acergy%20Aug%2008.pdf

Cheers.

[Stumble]

I am going to have to go with the entire fleet of Volvo Open 70's. These massive sailing machines are some of the fastest sailboats ever made, able to sustain incredible punishment as they pound through the souther oceans, and reach speeds in excess of 30kn, with a 24 hour run record of 562 nautical miles. Even in light air they scream, able to sail upwind at well over the true wind speed.

For me these are perhaps the best sailboats of all time, since they don't sacrafice the safety factors of many of the fastest boats, while retaining awe inspiring speeds through the worst weather on the planet.

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/05/ericsson0914/2.jpg

[Guillermo]

Stumble,
here a direct view of the nice image you posted a link to.

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/05/ericsson0914/2.jpg

Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

I am going to have to go with the entire fleet of Volvo Open 70's. These massive sailing machines are some of the fastest sailboats ever made, able to sustain incredible punishment as they pound through the souther oceans, and reach speeds in excess of 30kn, with a 24 hour run record of 562 nautical miles. Even in light air they scream, able to sail upwind at well over the true wind speed.

For me these are perhaps the best sailboats of all time, since they don't sacrafice the safety factors of many of the fastest boats, while retaining awe inspiring speeds through the worst weather on the planet.

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/05/ericsson0914/2.jpg

for me the open 60, because it is more powerful, yet has one very brave and skilled pilot, he or she, are simply in another league

[Guillermo]

Open 60 Cheminées Poujoulat battling for survival in 70 knots of wind.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3126/poujoulatuu9.jpg

Cheers.

[lazeyjack]

I had the greatest pleasure and honour to spend time alone talking to whom I consider the worlds greatest sailer, Isa Autissier, that is one awsome pic Guillo
the most astonishing thing is this one in pic is making to weather

[Stumble]

Hmm, open 60 or 70 are both in the same class too me. But there is no doubt the open 60 skippers are due a tremendous amount of respect for soloing these beasts.

But when it comes to off kilter skippers I have to hand it to the guys sailing the Open 6.5 class. Same race course as the Open 60's but much smaller boats.

[lazeyjack]

Hmm, open 60 or 70 are both in the same class too me. But there is no doubt the open 60 skippers are due a tremendous amount of respect for soloing these beasts.

But when it comes to off kilter skippers I have to hand it to the guys sailing the Open 6.5 class. Same race course as the Open 60's but much smaller boats.

true true , big difference is the gear cant hurt, maim or kill one