Ahoy sailor! The shipping, boating and sailing thread

[Silvermoth]

Hi everyone,

as a companion piece to the train thread, I thought it might be fun to have a boat thread as well. Like sometimes I really love watching ship launches when you think it’s definitely going to sink and it doesn’t



anyone else a fan?

 

[signalman]

 

[Silvermoth]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[signalman]

USS Iowa Battleship.

 

[Breogan]

The Victoria (La (nao) Victoria) First ship to circumnavigate the world. (Traveling replica above^)
Set sail from Seville, August 10, 1519 one of five ships in the expedition, survivor Juan Sebastián Elcano (and remaining crew) disembarked back in Spain 1522, becoming not only the first humans to circumnavigate, physically proving the globe, but the first humans in history to inadvertently go "back in time" a day!

LOL not how it works.

As they realized (while keeping accurate calendar, proved), the first humans to have lost a day, by continually traveling west around the globe, in the same direction as the sun, while the rest of the world had moved ahead a day, forever becoming 'a day' younger than the rest of the calendar keeping humanity.

Got to visit her while docked in San Agustin Fl. surprisingly small, being on board, really makes you appreciate the challenge as they launched themselves into the "unknown".

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Commandant Cousteau's ship, The Alcyone.

 

[Breogan]

USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate. .She is the world's oldest ship still afloat.
Launched 1797 ...Her first duties were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War, and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War.

 

[Breogan]

"Damn the torpedoes, ...full speed ahead."
USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, ...served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.

Famously from his high perch, where he was lashed to the rigging of his flagship USS Hartford, Farragut could see the ships pulling back. "What's the trouble?" he shouted through a trumpet to USS Brooklyn. "Torpedoes", was the shouted reply. "Damn the torpedoes....", said Farragut, "....Four bells, Captain Drayton, go ahead full speed."

The bulk of the fleet succeeded in entering the bay. Farragut triumphed over the opposition of heavy batteries in Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines to defeat the squadron of the Confederate Navy.

On December 21, 1864, Lincoln promoted Farragut (born to Jordi Farragut Mesquida a Spanish merchant captain from Menorca, who had served in the American Revolution and wife Elizabeth (née Shine) of North Carolina Scotch-Irish descent) becoming the first American naval officer to hold the rank of rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral, the senior ranking officer in the United States Navy.

 

[Silvermoth]

"Damn the torpedoes, ...full speed ahead."
USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, ...served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.

Famously from his high perch, where he was lashed to the rigging of his flagship USS Hartford, Farragut could see the ships pulling back. "What's the trouble?" he shouted through a trumpet to USS Brooklyn. "Torpedoes", was the shouted reply. "Damn the torpedoes.", said Farragut, "Four bells, Captain Drayton, go ahead. Jouett, full speed."

The bulk of the fleet succeeded in entering the bay. Farragut triumphed over the opposition of heavy batteries in Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines to defeat the squadron of the Confederate Navy.

On December 21, 1864, Lincoln promoted Farragut becoming the first American naval officer to hold the rank of rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral, the senior ranking officer in the United States Navy.

that’s so cool! Love the historical photos!

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Brutikus]

 

[ComicChick]

is this going to be another pic-posting thread or will there actually be discussion? do we need another pic posting thread?

if it's going to be the latter, this will probably be moved to the Diner.

 

[Silvermoth]

If you’re looking for a new podcast to check out, I definitely recommend the maritime history podcast. It’s really interesting and covers all era of sailing from ww2 to Ancient Greece

 

[signalman]

Roy Rogers for Yellow Jacket Boats.

 

[Brutikus]