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Various boats and ships, mostly military. |
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 | The Project 1239 Sivuch small missile air cushion ship is primary intended for coast defense operations. Two ships in service now.
The new Russian missile carrying hovercraft is meant to carry out missile attacks on ships. It is the largest military hovercraft unmatched anywhere in the world. With the displacement of 1000 tons, the craft has a cruising speed of 100 kilometers an... |  | 09/26/2009 | 34 | 
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 | The US Navy built twenty of these units, and the former USS San Bernardino (LST-1189), current LST. 93 Valdivia, was the eighth of her type. She was built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Yardships in San Diego, USA. Her keel was put on July 12, 1969, and was launched on March 28, 1970.
She was commissioned into the US Navy on March 27, 1971. In 1972, she participated in the... | | 09/26/2009 | 39 |
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 | This Whiskey Class submarine S-189 is moored here since 2007 and served as a museum. | | 09/24/2009 | 293 |
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 | The "Hercules" and "Ajax" were two 250-ton capacity floating cranes extensively used in the construction of the Panama Canal. These leviathans had the mightiest lift in the world at that time and were built in Duisburg, Germany during the pre WWI years specifically for handling the gates of the canal locks. Henry Schoellhorn was hired in 1912 to head the Electrical Departme... | | 09/19/2009 | 413 |
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 | Cutter suction dredge Mindi was built by Ellicot Machine Corporation in Baltimore at a cost of US$7 million, and was commissioned in 1943, operating by steam at the time. Between 1977 and 1979, it was refitted to operate with diesel and electricity. Dredge Mindi cuts and sucks material, pumps and deposits it through pipelines in disposal sites up to 10, 000 feet (3,048 m.) away. It is 400 feet ... | | 09/19/2009 | 38 |
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 | The PCA’s mechanical dipper dredger Rialto M. Christensen (RMC) was built in 1977 by the Japanese Hakodate Dock Company in the days when the Canal was still under US governance. Designed to replace several classic steam dipper dredgers, RMC is a diesel-electric, cable-operated vessel designed for what’s acknowledged to be some of the most difficult conditions to be found anywhere. Not only does... | | 09/19/2009 | 32 |
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 | Non self propelled barge for submarine drilling and blasting.
Four tower of 105’ high. Lengh of 151’ and 46’ 11” beam. | | 09/19/2009 | 29 |
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 | Murmansk (Russian: Мурманск) was a light cruiser project no. 68-bis (Sverdlov class based on a NATO classification) of the Soviet and later the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.
She was laid down in Severodvinsk in 1953 and commissioned on 22 September 1955. In 1994 she was sold to India for scrapping but ran aground off Norway at Sørv... |  | 09/12/2009 | 1,759 |
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 | One of the four cranes that Adolf Hitler demand to made in 1941. These were the biggest cranes in the world during the World War II and they were tooked by the Allies (United States, UK and Russia) when the war ended, as war treasures.
The "TITAN" crane was moved to California where she stayed 50 years, and then in 1999 the crane was brought to serve in the Panama Cana... |  | 09/12/2009 | 1,159 |
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 | The Airbus factory at Broughton 15 miles up stream of Mostyn produces the wings for the Airbus range of aircraft and these are all transported to the assembly facility in Toulouse. | | 09/12/2009 | 100 |
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 | ABLE own and operate what is probably the largest purpose-designed facility for recycling redundant marine structures including ships. The facility complies with health, safety and environmental standards of the UK, Europe and the USA. Clients for offshore structures decommissioning include some of the major international oil companies including BHP Hamilton, Exxon-Mobil, NAM BV, Phillips Petro... | | 09/12/2009 | 61 |
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 | Six Foxtrot class, Soviet type 641, submarines were delivered to the Libyan Navy from the USSR during 1976 and 1983. Al Khyber 315 was commissioned in April 1982 as one of the six Al Badr class as they are called.
Four of the six boats have been decommissioned by the end of the 1990s dew to poor maintenance; they have been cannibalized in order to keep the two last submarines go... | | 09/10/2009 | 649 |
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 | The Pacific Fleet is part of the Russian Navy stationed in the Pacific Ocean, which formerly secured the Far Eastern borders of the Soviet Union. The fleet headquarters is located at Vladivostok and a number of fleet bases are located in the Vladivostok area. Another important fleet basing area is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Avacha Bay on the Kamchatka Peninsula with a major submarine base at ... | | 09/10/2009 | 402 |
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 | MV Cape Wrath is one of Military Sealift Command's 27 Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and one of the 50 RRF ships in the Sealift Program Office. | | 09/10/2009 | 242 |
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 | This fleet of luxury yachts is owned by Khalid bin Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz, a Saudi with an interest in science, particularly in Oceanography. The fleet even includes a seaplane that 'docks' on one of the middle-sized vessels. They sail the oceans on holidays with their owner, charters with various people who can afford them, and also conducting some scientific research. | | 08/31/2009 | 458 |
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 | Earthrace is the current holder for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe. Some stories have said that anti-whaler demonstrators have purchased the boat and are using it to 'block harpoons'. |  | 08/31/2009 | 473 |
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 | The Shinas is the first of two ferries delivered to Oman recently. The Shinas achieved a speed of 52 knots in trials, making it the fastest diesel powered ferry in the world. | | 08/31/2009 | 80 |
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 | The scrapping of ships is taking place at several sites along the coast of Bangladesh. The area of Fauzdarhat, a 16-km beach situated approximately 20-km south-west of Chittagong, is undoubtedly the most important. Parallel ship-breaking activities taking place here, represent the second largest facility in the world with respect to the numbers of vessels being scrapped. In size (no. of vessels... | | 08/15/2009 | 447 |
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 | President was a steamboat which currently lies dismantled in St. Elmo, Illinois. Originally named Cincinnati, it was built in 1924, and is the only remaining "Western Rivers" style sidewheel river excursion steamboat in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
Its home ports have been... | | 08/09/2009 | 77 |
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 | The shipyards at Alang recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world. The yards are located on the Gulf of Khambat, 50 kilometres southeast of Bhavnagar. Visiting Westerners complain that before shipbreaking began there in June 1983 the beach at Alang was pristine and unspoiled. However, locals say that the work provides a reasonably paid job by local standards, with a stead... | | 08/01/2009 | 821 |
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 | Kaiyo Maru was one of Japan's first modern warships, powered by both sails and steam. She was ordered in the Netherlands in 1863 by the Bakufu, the government of the Shogun, the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij acting as agents. The ship was built at the yard of Cornelis Gips and Sons in Dordrecht, The Netherlands for the sum of 831,200 guilders. The construction was overseen by a Japanese mil... | | 07/26/2009 | 1,394 |
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 | Landing Craft on the dockside in Tokyo | | 07/21/2009 | 108 |
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 | The Bayard was used as a coaling ship for the whaling station. Bayard lost its mooring at the coaling pier on the northern side during a severe gale on 6 June 1911. Blown onto the rocks on the southern side and holed.
Built in 1864 by T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool, she is 67 metres long and displaced 1335 tons.
http://flickr.com/photos/11327055@N00/437848392/ | | 07/21/2009 | 119 |
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 | Abandoned on its launching blocks in the submarine pens of Kiska Harbor. It was damaged by internal demolition charges set by the Japanese, and exposure to weather and souvenir hunters. Originally there were three midgets when the Allies liberated.
Ko-hyoteki Ko Gata Type-A midget submarines were 78.5 feet long, displaced 46 tons, were armed with two muzzle-loaded torpedoes, and... | | 07/17/2009 | 316 |
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 | Another wreck of a supply freighter from the LTTE sunken near the coast of Mullaitivu. | | 07/16/2009 | 316 |
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