Author Topic: Interesting and unusual boaty type things. (Read 156514 times)

jsabine · « **Reply #150 on:** 23 December, 2014, 01:46:57 am »

Indeed, the USS Cole, complete with hole in the side courtesy of Al Quaeda.

Wombat · « **Reply #151 on:** 23 December, 2014, 09:16:51 am »

Yup, HMS Newcastle hit a rock, so the damage was more around the bow area, unlike this poor thing what got attacked by malicious persons.

David Martin · « **Reply #152 on:** 23 December, 2014, 10:46:57 am »

And to the career of the officer in charge..

Wombat · « **Reply #153 on:** 23 December, 2014, 12:14:04 pm »

Er, yes, they don't like their officers driving into static things that have been there for a while. One of Mrs W's customers had a similar issue having collided with a bit of the middle east. One customer down, as they got posted somewhere obscure, (presumably not driving a ship) shortly after the court martial. She wondered why they had suddenly moved, until we read about it.

Pingu · « **Reply #154 on:** 07 January, 2015, 10:13:48 am »

This has just arrived in the harbour here. It looks rather more rusty than in the (not my) picture.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #155 on:** 02 March, 2015, 06:07:14 pm »

No photo alas but I'm curious to know what a full-on RNLI self-righting lifeboat was doing on the River Lea this morning. Just downstream from the Princess of Wales /Lea Bridge

Andrij · « **Reply #156 on:** 02 March, 2015, 06:08:54 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2015, 06:07:14 pm

No photo alas but I'm curious to know what a full-on RNLI self-righting lifeboat was doing on the River Lea this morning. Just downstream from the Princess of Wales /Lea Bridge

Stopping in for a pint. Or directions to the sea. Or stopping in for directions and a pint.

Jurek · « **Reply #157 on:** 04 March, 2015, 01:39:13 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2015, 06:07:14 pm

No photo alas but I'm curious to know what a full-on RNLI self-righting lifeboat was doing on the River Lea this morning. Just downstream from the Princess of Wales /Lea Bridge

Orange in colour?
I've seen that parked up there a few times.
It did occur to me that it could be my great frend Don, who bought Lynmouth's lifeboat when it was de-comissioned a few years ago, and converted it into his home. Last I heard from Don, he was moored up somewhere on the Grand Union near Watford.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #158 on:** 04 March, 2015, 03:37:12 pm »

Currently there is a converted lifeboat/ houseboat moored outside my work in Kingston upon Thames.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #159 on:** 04 March, 2015, 04:15:43 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 04 March, 2015, 01:39:13 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2015, 06:07:14 pm
No photo alas but I'm curious to know what a full-on RNLI self-righting lifeboat was doing on the River Lea this morning. Just downstream from the Princess of Wales /Lea Bridge

Orange in colour?
I've seen that parked up there a few times.
It did occur to me that it could be my great frend Don, who bought Lynmouth's lifeboat when it was de-comissioned a few years ago, and converted it into his home. Last I heard from Don, he was moored up somewhere on the Grand Union near Watford.

Yes, very very orange. More orange than the whole of interzen's fleet put together. It appeared to be in mid-park, but I was driving over the bridge and thus only saw it briefly.

Jurek · « **Reply #160 on:** 06 March, 2015, 03:29:27 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 04 March, 2015, 04:15:43 pm

Quote from: Jurek on 04 March, 2015, 01:39:13 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2015, 06:07:14 pm
No photo alas but I'm curious to know what a full-on RNLI self-righting lifeboat was doing on the River Lea this morning. Just downstream from the Princess of Wales /Lea Bridge

Orange in colour?
I've seen that parked up there a few times.
It did occur to me that it could be my great frend Don, who bought Lynmouth's lifeboat when it was de-comissioned a few years ago, and converted it into his home. Last I heard from Don, he was moored up somewhere on the Grand Union near Watford.

Yes, very very orange. More orange than the whole of interzen's fleet put together. It appeared to be in mid-park, but I was driving over the bridge and thus only saw it briefly.

Its still there, just a little further downstream, parked up next to Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve.
I saw it this morning.
It has definitely been tangoed.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #161 on:** 07 March, 2015, 10:09:23 pm »

Not a black hull?

If it doesn't have a black hull, then it might be an ex-gas rig escape vessel. Quite a few have been converted to canal boats.

matthew · « **Reply #162 on:** 08 March, 2015, 07:54:37 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 07 March, 2015, 10:09:23 pm

Not a black hull?

If it doesn't have a black hull, then it might be an ex-gas rig escape vessel. Quite a few have been converted to canal boats.

Saw one of those on the Kennet yesterday a little west of Great Bedwyn. odd looking on flat waters.

Riggers · « **Reply #163 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:27:26 pm »

Has this been posted yet? The world's BIGGEST container ship (for now at least):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31813045

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #164 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:03:19 pm »

So that's what Oscar's Dad has been up to recently

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #165 on:** 11 March, 2015, 04:53:59 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 11 March, 2015, 03:03:19 pm

So that's what Oscar's Dad has been up to recently

My finest achievement!

Andrij · « **Reply #166 on:** 20 June, 2015, 10:16:45 am »

From yesterday's ride:

On the Hertford-Union Canal where it meets the Lea.

On the Lea at Leyton Marsh.

On the Lea, just south of the North Circular (A406).

Jaded · « **Reply #167 on:** 25 June, 2015, 12:47:29 am »

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #168 on:** 25 June, 2015, 09:36:13 am »

I like that a lot. I've no idea what sort of boat it is, but it looks lovely.

Vince · « **Reply #169 on:** 25 June, 2015, 10:08:52 am »

Gaff rigged ketch would describe the mast and sail layout, but it may have a local type name.

Jaded · « **Reply #170 on:** 25 June, 2015, 10:38:22 am »

Quote

The Tecla was once build as herring drifter. A fishing vessel that would roam the North Sea for weeks on end to fill her hull with barrels of herring. The Tecla was build in 1915 as a ketch sailing ship, build without engine or other propulsion except her sails.

If it fulfilled its sailing diary, it has just been to St Kilda.

Jaded · « **Reply #171 on:** 27 June, 2015, 11:28:39 pm »

Andrij · « **Reply #172 on:** 29 June, 2015, 07:55:42 pm »

Loads of these things around London's waterways.

Frankenboat (on the River Lea)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #173 on:** 30 June, 2015, 05:12:36 am »

Now you've got me wondering about the fate of the two-narrowboats-joined-together "catamaran" I saw near Old Ford lock about ten years ago...

Andrij · « **Reply #174 on:** 15 August, 2015, 10:26:27 pm »