Marine shite

[flat4alfa]

What about one of these blighters?

 

 

SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4), 6 built, these are the Princess Anne specs:

 

Length 130.2ft (39.68m) (1968), 56.40m (stretched in 1976)

Beam 78ft (23.77m)

Height on landing pads 37.8ft (11.48m)

 

Skirt length 8ft (2.44m). The Bella Emberg of skirts.

 

Main Engines 4 Rolls Royce ‘Marine Proteus’ gas turbines. 3,400shp (3447cv) each. Up rated to 3,800shp (1977)

Auxiliary power units 2 Rover 1S/90 gas turbines

 

Propellers 4 Hawker Siddeley Dynamics 4 blade variable-pitch propellers with a 19ft diameter (5.79m).

Lift Fans 4 BHC, 12 blade, centrifugal, 11.6ft diameter (3.5m)

 

Tonnage 168 tons (170.7 tonnes) (1968), 300 (1977)

 

Max speed over calm water 60-65 knots (111-120 km/hr)

Average service speed 40-50 knots (74-93 km/hr)

Stopping distance from 50 knots 700 yards (640m)

 

Capacity 254 passengers, 30 cars (1968), 418 passengers, 60 cars (1977), or 5 Adeles.

 

 

 

 

Withdrawn from service in October 2000. Two survivors, now museum pieces. Are they boats, or are they planes? You needed a pilot's licence to drive one.

 

Love these big old things. Missed out on going on one. Used to love seeing them from IOW when on holidays as a kid, belting across the Channel. These were my Titanic. But my Dad was tight so we used the normal ferry.

[tonedepear]

Went on one of them. Was only little but memories as follows:

 

Most exciting thing ever.

Noisy.

Couldn't see out the widows cos of all the spray.

[flat4alfa]

 

 

Excellent!

[Autoplas]

What about one of these blighters?

 

 

SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4), 6 built, these are the Princess Anne specs:

 

Length 130.2ft (39.68m) (1968), 56.40m (stretched in 1976)

Beam 78ft (23.77m)

Height on landing pads 37.8ft (11.48m)

 

Skirt length 8ft (2.44m). The Bella Emberg of skirts.

 

Main Engines 4 Rolls Royce ‘Marine Proteus’ gas turbines. 3,400shp (3447cv) each. Up rated to 3,800shp (1977)

Auxiliary power units 2 Rover 1S/90 gas turbines

 

Propellers 4 Hawker Siddeley Dynamics 4 blade variable-pitch propellers with a 19ft diameter (5.79m).

Lift Fans 4 BHC, 12 blade, centrifugal, 11.6ft diameter (3.5m)

 

Tonnage 168 tons (170.7 tonnes) (1968), 300 (1977)

 

Max speed over calm water 60-65 knots (111-120 km/hr)

Average service speed 40-50 knots (74-93 km/hr)

Stopping distance from 50 knots 700 yards (640m)

 

Capacity 254 passengers, 30 cars (1968), 418 passengers, 60 cars (1977), or 5 Adeles.

 

 

 

 

Withdrawn from service in October 2000. Two survivors, now museum pieces. Are they boats, or are they planes? You needed a pilot's licence to drive one.

 

Love these big old things. Missed out on going on one. Used to love seeing them from IOW when on holidays as a kid, belting across the Channel. These were my Titanic. But my Dad was tight so we used the normal ferry.

 

Pic 2 would have the Health & Safety Nazis having a fit nowadays......

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Used to love seeing them from IOW when on holidays as a kid,

 

Yeah once I could see one from my bedroom window sitting on the slipway of (what used to be known) as BHC (British Hovercraft Corporation), like this;

 

 

All very patriotic eh?

 

Today at least the doors still proclaim to be British, though they are very faded now.

 

[Lankytim]

I

 

And also this one which some Scousers decided to cut into five sections, thus completely ruining it.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-534

 

.

 

Why? Merseytravel Why??

 

I really want to visit it one day, but why the fuck did they have to cut it up?

[Tayne]

If you happen to cross the water and visit San Franciscoshire, Americaland, then you can visit the USS Pampanito.

Its a WW2 vintage sub and your 5 or 6 dollars gets you a little mp3 player and earphones allowing you to walk through and absorb it on your own.

 

Big Gun by Tayne, on Flickr

 

Emergency Air by Tayne, on Flickr

 

I wouldn't want to be bunking above the torpedos...

Torpedo Tube by Tayne, on Flickr

 

http://www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm

[Autoplas]

I've been on an French Navy sub and after about 10 minutes I felt claustrophobic, uncomfortable and wanted to get off and it wasn't even submerged.

 

Fair play to guys of whatever nationality who spend months at sea on those things

[Negative Creep]

If I were to write a list of the jobs I'd least like to do, Submariner would be somewhere near traffic warden or cleaner in a brothel. At least if you get a hole in the side of a ship you have a chance of escaping, whilst a submarine would be an iron coffin

[eddyramrod]

I used to drive past the German sub in Birkenhead, before it was cut up. It overhung the road! My FIL and BIL, and I think my stepson, visited it, but I couldn't go that day. Which was a relief, as I'm claustrophobic. Stepson works on one...

 

Sad to see the Iris laid up! Especially so far from home, what a shame.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I

 

And also this one which some Scousers decided to cut into five sections, thus completely ruining it.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-534

 

.

 

Why? Merseytravel Why??

 

I really want to visit it one day, but why the fuck did they have to cut it up?

 

Because they didn't think to fill the ballast tanks with foam, weld up the depth charge split in the hull and float it along the Mersey. Absolute madness - I would have preferred it if they'd towed it out to sea and just sunk it again, leaving it in in one piece.

[flat4alfa]

It's worth a crawl through HMS Ocelot at Chatham Docks.

 

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/ocelot.htm

 

 

Don't take hallucinogens beforehand though

[Negative Creep]

Don't take hallucinogens beforehand though

 

 

Or go into Chatham town centre

[michael t]

My marine shite entry is this,

then

 

And now

 

The Irish Trader, it ran aground off Baltray in 1974 carrying a cargo of fertliser, it has sat there ever since. I can see it from my front window and im dying to go and have a poke around it.

[Mr Lobster]

Doesn't appear to be a great deal left to poke around in in all fairness.

 

Not marine shite as such, but I could spend a happy week poking around one of the ship breaking yards in Aliaga or Alang. Theres something very appealing about old ships in their final years, each with memories and references to their previous careers from many years before.

 

 

[M'coli]

How could I forget about this? The sugar boat (MV Captayannis), sunk in the Clyde in 1974.

 

[Split_Pin]

Wow, I travelled to Port Glasgow every month to see Granny/Gramps_L and never noticed this. Judging by the width of the river the wreck can't be far from there?

 

EDIT: Just Wiki'd it, I drove past this location last week coming back from Campbeltown. I've totally never noticed this before, going to have a good butchers next time I'm down that way.

[M'coli]

It's further down near Ardmore, I grew up being able to see it out of the front windows of my parents house - so long as the weather permitted, of course!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cardros ... ngdom&z=13

It's centred on the Google map above.

[Split_Pin]

Great view to have

[Mr Lobster]

Remarkably intact considering its been there the best part of 40 years!

[morris_ital_lover]

Indeed, maybe it's fairing so well because it is in relatively calm waters? Remarkable nonetheless, why hasn't anyone salvaged the beaut?

[M'coli]

Clydesite website says about salvage,

Why has she never been removed? Much confusion surrounds the identity of her owners, and no-one is willing to be responsible for her removal. There were once plans to have her blown up, but Ardmore Point is a sensitive bird sanctuary and there were fears such a drastic course of action would have negative repercussions - so it seems she will remain there until every piece of metal has rusted away.

http://www.clydesite.co.uk/articles/captayannis.asp

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Changed the title of this to make the topic more general.

[mattblack]

What's left of the 'Ben Asdale', I took these a few years ago.

 

 

Quite a tragic story, just think on when you're munching your cod 'n' chips

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

 

And some marine shite you don't want to be messing with...

 

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

 

[Mr Lobster]

Zenobia was a deep sea Ro-ro ferry which sank off Cyprus after developing problems with her computer controlled ballast tanks, now one of the worlds best dive sites apparently...

 

 

 

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

[Split_Pin]

Some bonus truck shite pics from the Wiki site detailing the dives to the wreck! Amazing they have remained intact in saltwater for over 30 years!

[Tayne]

I'd forgotten about the Sovereign.

It hit rocks in 2005 within sight of the light beacon designed to keep boats of the rocks.

 

Keep Britain Tidy! by Tayne, on Flickr

 

It looks nice at sunset though.

 

Failed Beacon by Tayne, on Flickr

[Jozza]

How about some literal (sub)Marine Autoshite:

 

 

In 1976 an ex-British Rail car ferry, renamed the Nasim II, sank off the Italian island of Giannutri with 49 cars (12 Fiats, 35 Peugeots and 2 Mercedes) whilst bound for Egypt. Around 20 of the cars fell off the deck and are now scattered around the wreck site:

 

 

 

Info here: http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?96709

[wackywacerwill]

Liking this thread so had a think to what I could contribute. We use to ride our dirtbikes down at Cliffe Marsh many years back when it was seen as some out the way place where more often than not you wouldn't get your collar felt as long as you were wearing a skid lid and the bike you rode belonged to you. Threat of Airport and bird watching interests have put paid to that know which is a shame as it was a great and wild place to ride in many ways.

 

Out in the mud/Thames (depending on tide lies an old wooden boat, a proper pirate type shipwreck it always looked to me.

 

A bit of searching tells me it's the Hans Egede

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dkbrown/wreck.html

 

 

The Marsh is a great place for a mooch about with the fort and military doings in the area, loads of chordy motors smashed up about the place too though they were starting to clear the easy to reach ones when I was last there.

 

 

 

[HillmanImp]

I remember HMS Opportune and Otus being exactly like this for some years at the side of the M275 on the way into Portsmouth as a kid.

 

 

Dont know of they are still there or not as not been there for about 15 years.