Yachts, boats and ships (9)

mariuszlo wrote: The first cruise ship after a break of eighteen months. I barely had time to catch him. And against the sun. Scarlet Lady operated by Virgin Voyages.

Well spotted, and catched Marius

FloatingFestival

H.M.S. Belfast with Tower Bridge
DSC07800.jpg by Macca h, on Flickr
A7iii and Batis 85mm 1.8

M/S Finnsea has left Vuosaari, Helsinki and is heading towards Antwerpen

α7R III + Sony FE 4/24-105 G OSS @ 24 mm, f/10, 1/100 s, ISO 100

Floating sauna

α7R III + Sony FE 4/24-105 G OSS @ 78 mm, f/8, 1/200 s, ISO 640

@ Coast - just spent a depressing 45 minutes reading about the Coronado and it's procurement etc, I'd assumed it was only our Royal Navy that made such a "mess" (let's be polite!) of this sort of thing but glad to hear the USN is keeping up with us !!
Interesting ship even if it doesn't work !
Thanks for showing the pics, certainly got me interested......
All the best
Richard T

RichardT wrote: @ Coast - just spent a depressing 45 minutes reading about the Coronado and it's procurement etc, I'd assumed it was only our Royal Navy that made such a "mess" (let's be polite!) of this sort of thing but glad to hear the USN is keeping up with us !! Interesting ship even if it doesn't work ! Thanks for showing the pics, certainly got me interested...... All the best Richard T

Thanks Richard, yes the high speed, highly maneuverable ship isn't turning out to be the wonder it was supposed. And one can find multiple disparaging articles about all our ships. It doesn't have propellers but maneuvering air jets that let it actually turn on a dime, it is certainly not a blue water battleship.
It is probably going to find itself in the South China Seas islands, if not already as a littoral drone and helicopter platform

I waited in line in the hot sun for 2 hours, but I did get a quite fascinating complete tour of the ship. Here are 2 more photos that might interest
Photo I took on its heliport





This was interesting, the officer in charge giving us a briefing in the Combat (War) room
everything is hi-tech computer displays and such. We weren't allowed to see behind those dark curtains
He said he doesn't see day light for days in there



I wouldn't get too depressed. My money is on the the Zumwalt class destroyers. To me the future of Navy

I was lucky enough to get a tour on this ship also. By the Commander; Captain Kirk (Star Trek, anyone)
Of course this futuristic stealth design ship has multiple disparaging articles. A couple of quick facts, it has 25% radar footprint of standard destroyers and 1/2 of the crew compliment

Waiting in line to take the Zumwalt tour
things were much more tightlipped on the Zumwalt, we all got searched before boarding, but a thrill to be on the ship
One of the benni's for being in San Francisco on "FleetWeek" w the Blue Angels

Here is an article that just came out a day or so ago about the Zumwalt class
getting fitted, my understanding w the latest laser cannons
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42963/the-navys-stealth-destroyers-will-have-their-deck-guns-replaced-with-hypersonic-missiles
Coast

Push Tug "Dordrecht" moving two barges filled with coal up the King Albert Canal near Wijnegem (Belgium)


A700 + Sony 18-250

This was taken while on the Liguria, on board with skipper Stormvogel (Willem de Waardt)