RMweb Premium figworthy Posted July 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27 We don't seem to have had any marine engines for a while. I spotted this at the Welland Steam Rally yesterday. One of two that were in a motor yacht. It is mounted inside a curtain side lorry. Adrian 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27 4 hours ago, chipbury said: ...snip... I particularly liked the steam powered snow blower: Common over here. I have two O scale (1/48) versions: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 (edited) 9 hours ago, chipbury said: That Borsig-built, streamlined DRG Class 03 very much reminds me of the Borsig-made DRG Class 05, which was a direct descendant. It was the Borsig 05 class that reached a record 200.4 km/h (on a horizontal run without a breakdown) that LNER A4 Mallard broke-down* trying to beat it at 126 mph / 203 km/h (downhill, with a heavier train). * Big-end bearing on the middle cylinder - a known issue with the A4 at high speed. Edited July 28 by Ozexpatriate 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 An interesting article for anyone following the BRICS++ trends Visualizing the Busiest Ports in the World Quote In 2024, nine of the world’s 10 busiest ports are located in Asia, underscoring the eastward shift in global trade flows. Due to supply chain shifts and deeper integration, intraregional trade within Asia has grown significantly. In the 1990s, over 70% of Asian exports by value went beyond the region, with containers being shipped back mostly empty. By comparison, roughly 60% of exports in Asia are traded within the region today. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/busiest-ports-in-the-world/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 A few from Boston Harbor last Wednesday...... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30 On 27/07/2024 at 22:53, figworthy said: We don't seem to have had any marine engines for a while. I spotted this at the Welland Steam Rally yesterday. One of two that were in a motor yacht. It is mounted inside a curtain side lorry. Adrian That really looks a lot like the US Fairbanks-Morse engines. Blast injection by look of it, left hand end gubbins looks like a big compressor. I'd like to see that. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 14 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said: A few from Boston Harbor last Wednesday...... Here's USCGC Spencer in Boston in March of 2017: And USCGC Key Largo at the same time (she was decommissioned in 2023): The obelisk above the aft deck is the Bunker Hill Monument (on Breed's Hill) in Charlestown. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 31 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31 15 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: An interesting article for anyone following the BRICS++ trends Visualizing the Busiest Ports in the World https://www.visualcapitalist.com/busiest-ports-in-the-world/ It is indeed striking, and something a lot of people don't appreciate. Many Europeans still think Rotterdam and Antwerp are the worlds two leading ports, yet compared to the major ports of China or Singapore for containers especially they're almost minnows nowadays. The container port of Tanjong Pelepas in Johor Bahru (it is on the other side of the strait from Singapore, on the Western, Strait of Malacca side) is often derided as some sort of white elephant and failure because it has never managed to challenge the port of Singapore, yet it moves something like 10 million TEU a year. That's not that far behind Antwerp or Rotterdam and ahead of Hamburg. A visit to Yangshan, the deep water container port of Shanghai is something else, it is quite incredible. It isn't just size, well actually it is a function of size but the efficiency of the big Asian ports is something else too. They work at a pace which visitors from quite a few other ports claim to be unachievable. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ryde-on-time Posted July 31 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31 On a cruise in the Med currently. These are a few snaps I took as we left Civitavecchia (after a very hot day spent in Rome!) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 1 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1 So that’s what Costa ships look like the right way up… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ryde-on-time Posted August 1 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1 Some more photos, this time Naples. Looking online it seems the MSC São Paulo 5 had an engine room fire earlier this year so not sure if it is currently being repaired? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 The former RRS Ernest Shackleton in the background of the penultimate picture, now named Laura Bassi and operated by the Italians. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 1 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1 This is a very naughty ship, the dredger that rammed a bunker barge and caused an oil spill a few weeks ago. It's been sitting at anchor off Pasir Panjang. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 1 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1 The Ever Top is an interesting boat. On the outside she looks like just another big box boat, but she has been retrofitted with a carbon capture and storage system to reduce GHG emissions. That's why there's a big extension to the funnel casing. The Ever Top is departing Pasir Panjang, the LNG fuelled CMA-CGM Legacy was already standing off waiting for the berth. Something striking was how long the Ever Top took to get off the berth, these big box boats are notorious for poor manoeuvrability under pilotage, there was a light breeze in the wrong direction and the tugs were earning their pay pulling her away from the berth. 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 1 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1 A change from the usual MOL vehicle carriers, and one of the usual MOL boats. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 A busy 45 minutes or so at Tanjong Pagar this morning, The Nissan World Spirit departing with MOL Marvellous Ace alongside and the MOL Wisteria Ace arriving to take the berth just vacated. The bunker barge Humber which had been refuelling Marvellous Ave then one of the KMTC box boats departing the old container port. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiles Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 22 hours ago, jjb1970 said: The Ever Top is an interesting boat. On the outside she looks like just another big box boat, but she has been retrofitted with a carbon capture and storage system to reduce GHG emissions. That's why there's a big extension to the funnel casing. The Ever Top is departing Pasir Panjang, the LNG fuelled CMA-CGM Legacy was already standing off waiting for the berth. Something striking was how long the Ever Top took to get off the berth, these big box boats are notorious for poor manoeuvrability under pilotage, there was a light breeze in the wrong direction and the tugs were earning their pay pulling her away from the berth. Interesting (to me at least!) that Evergreen have a vessel named "Ever Top". They also have the Ever Atop on the Far East - Europe circuit along with "Alot", "Arm", "Alp", "Ace", "Act", "Aim", "Aria", "Apex" etc and probably a few more I've forgotten. They cause us poor forwarding agents much confusion when they arrive a few days apart...Not to mention Evergreen staff themselves! Thankfully the "Ever Top" doesn't appear here in Europe as far as I know. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 Perhaps, just for the Australian circuit, they should have one called Everage? (Dame Edna) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 The Taiwanese seem to have a different attitude to ships. The Evergreen and Yang Ming ships have names that might be charitable described as bland, uninteresting or devoid of much thought. Wan Hai just use numbers. On the other hand, they're very good ship operators who know their business. A friend of mine is a VP at one of the big Taiwanese container lines and if he was with a US or European line he'd probably be quarantined and banned from appearing in public as he's not very up to date on current thing thinking🫣 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexEclectic Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 4 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Perhaps, just for the Australian circuit, they should have one called Everage? (Dame Edna) Home port? Darling Habour.... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 On 01/08/2024 at 14:27, jjb1970 said: The Ever Top is an interesting boat. On the outside she looks like just another big box boat, but she has been retrofitted with a carbon capture and storage system to reduce GHG emissions. If they ever did a battery powered big box boat they could call it Every Ready! 2 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 6 minutes ago, Erichill16 said: If they ever did a battery powered big box boat they could call it Ever Ready! Would that be a cellular vessel? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 2 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2 6 hours ago, WessexEclectic said: Home port? Darling Habour.... Unlikely. Dame Edna was a proud Victorian. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Was this "Dame Edna" in Hamburg? Just needs a tiny bit of spray paint on the letter C... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ever_Ace_C_Hamburg_08-09-2021_(10).jpg 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Right at the other end of the size scale.... I hadn't seen this before, trips round Scarborough south bay in aid of the RNLI. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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