Ship of the day

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I don’t know what the Mary Sears is but it’s at the Wooloomooloo naval berths today, while floating office block Quantum of the Seas is messing up Circular Quay. Which isn’t circular.

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What the fuck is Quantum of the Seas supposed to mean?

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First warship in Greenwich for a while (first any ship really). Interestingly, it seems to be Dutch, HNLMS Karel Doorman.

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A better view:

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A couple in permanent dry dock at the Maritime Museum in Brisbane: HMS Diamantia (a navy vessel with a short career due to WW2 ending) and Carpentaria (a light vessel previously moored at Sydney’s equivalent museum. I featured it in post 142 but it’s lost to Tinypic).

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[Greenlander]

Alright so there's nothing particularly special about a rusty old general cargo vessel with 4000 tonnes of china clay aboard, but the Ocmis Gar has been held by the MCA with issues that have led to it being unflagged. I don't think I've heard Palau being mentioned more apart from maybe a vintage episode of Pointless.

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Another Dutch one, the Rotterdam:

[Antepli Ejderha]

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I took this yesterday, a much greyer day.

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But you both got a bird in.

[Antepli Ejderha]

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Here's the other photo I took, there were more birds around that time.

[Paul S]

I saw that Dutch ship going up the Thames a few days ago, I did wonder where it would end up.

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It came from Den Helder

Here is its Wiki page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Rotterdam_(L800)

There are quite a wide variety of active vessels named Rotterdam

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HMS Diamond. Don't get many destroyers:

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This rather ungainly "expeditionary fast transport" just steamed upriver



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Newport

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This rather ungainly "expeditionary fast transport" just steamed upriver



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Newport

Trying to establish a bridgehead at Poughkeepsie?

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I am slightly concerned.

There have also been more helicopters than usual.

My guess is that it is West Point related. Commencement is on Saturday.

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Not exactly the world's most interesting ship but I'm sitting in a terrace in possibly my favourite square anywhere,and couldn't resist

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Just passed between FF and us



38 metres long. Atypical for the Hudson.

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