Ship of the day

[San Bernardhinault]

Methane Progress sounds like wind slowly working it's way through your intestine before a particularly toxic fart...

[Sits]

I’ve looked up the ship now. Built in Barrow-in-Furness in 1964, the first LNG tanker into service. Methane Progress the sole sister ship. Scrapped in 1998.

[Sits]

Early 80s in Falmouth Harbour. Methane Princess, surely a name to stir romance in the coldest of hearts. Two Falmouth posts in a row, what are the odds?

[Paul S]

Red Funnel's ship "Red Osprey" in dry dock at Falmouth.

[Sits]

That's nice Paul. Good to see you got a Shag in.

[Paul S]

The Scillolian, built in Appledore shipyard in 1977 for the run to the Isles of Scilly. It is one of the last Royal Mail vessels and came out of dry dock at the weekend ready for sea trials. She is seen here entering Penzance Harbour.

[ursus arctos]

Interesting vessel

Looks to be used primarily for fjord excursions. Just a bit more luxe than than the mail trawler I was on in the 80s

The Coast Guard's Katherine Walker is coming down river this morning, having completed whatever channel maintenance work in was doing earlier in the week

[Third rate Leszno]

Today’s offering from the Mersey is the MS Fridtjof Nansen, the latest expedition cruise ship from Hurtigruten. It’s a more pleasing size than the Virgin monstrosity from the other week, and the back end is especially sleek - although the front still looks like it’s sailed into a dock wall at pace. It was only launched this year and is hybrid powered.

[Various Artist]

Did he lean out the windows with a brush, or stand on the ground with a really long-handled roller?

[Sits]

That’s better looking than the ship.

[ursus arctos]

That is exactly the "genius" of our office building, which was built for US Steel and painted black by Don Regan when he was CEO of Merrill Lynch

[San Bernardhinault]

The trick with that boat is that it's so ugly you'd almost prefer to be on the inside looking out than on the outside looking in. It's a cunning marketing ploy.

[ursus arctos]

They are a relatively new entry (within the last two years, I think)

[caja-dglh]

Until the Coronavirus challenges to the cruise industry I had no idea Virgin was in the cruise business.

[ursus arctos]

My word

No wonder they don't show the vessels in the adverts

[Third rate Leszno]

Not sure it's any prettier from the front.

[Third rate Leszno]

Even by the standards of hideous modern cruise ships, this baboon-arsed example that's sitting in the Mersey looks like it's been beaten with an ugly stick.

[Third rate Leszno]

The RFA Tidespring, apparently a replenishment tanker, was moored at the cruise ship terminal in the Mersey while I was out for my dinnertime stroll today.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

That ship is really the ultimate riparian expression of the term "Lazy man's load" isn't it?

[ursus arctos]

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[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/ursus_arctos59/status/1193284443718504448

[Ginger Yellow]

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Caught that monstrosity going up the river yesterday:

[ursus arctos]

The Coast Guard Cutter Thunder Bay, which is often deployed as an icebreaker on the Hudson during the winter, just sailed past.

Here it is doing harder yards

[Femme Folle]

Dunno about the San Diego version, but the Belle isn't at all "antebellum" inside.



Its promoters seem to think that its distinctive appearance sets it apart in an increasingly crowded field

Good god that's ugly

[Femme Folle]

I thought that said "gold cocks" - same thing though, amirite.