Pictures of Ships, Tugs, Off Shore Rigs, Barges, and those who work them

[QUOTE=catherder;93476][ATTACH]2777[/ATTACH] Denebola built in Rotterdam. The alarm panels are recent and installed by ICI. (Screen on the left, there is also one on the right. Touch screens)

[ATTACH]2778[/ATTACH] better photo of same I think

[ATTACH]2780[/ATTACH] facing the turbine generators from the oil test shack

[ATTACH]2781[/ATTACH] Propulsion turbines and red gear

[ATTACH]2782[/ATTACH] red gear facing aft[/QUOTE]

Makes me want to go back to sea. Thanks, catherder.
“touch screen” - WOW - "Everything is up to date in Kansas City"
My fickle <Thanks> is still in hiding. I like all these pictures.

Thanks catherder! I love SL-7 porn! The shot where you are standing at the port boiler looking inboard toward the console is a little different. I don’t remember there being an unobstructed view like that. I believe right in that area was the clean burner rack. It looks like they must’ve moved that somewhere else. I wish it had been opened like that when I was onboard. We had just departed shipyard and the igniters were all iffy. If we lost fire we were doing manual lighting. You would have to open the solenoid fuel valve manually while holding the torch in the hole. Once the photocell sensed light the valve would stay open. I was relighting the boiler while the first was standing by the forced draft fan controls. He didn’t wait for me to nod and yell fire in the hole. He saw the reflection of the flame on my face and cranked up the fan speed. I didn’t have the fuel valve all the way open and when he did that it blew the flame off the burner tip. There was about 2 feet of unburnt atomized fuel between the tip and the base of the flame. I started shaking my head and yelling for him to stop. I let go of the fuel valve and watched in slow motion as the flame walked backwards. It come right out of the torch hole and flashed at my face. It burned my cigarette in half lengthwise, the right half of my mustache and goatee off, my right eyebrow and half the hair off the right side of my head. He ran over to me yelling and i threw the torch at him and it caught his pants leg on fire. The fireman was coming out of the elevator and i stepped in and went up to the chiefs office. Looks like they have upgraded that thing a lot since I was there. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Thanks for the SL-7 Porn. Unfortunately, I don’t recall ever taking any pictures in the machinery spaces when I sailed on the McLean. Too bad. If anyone has seen the movie “Contraband” (pretty bad, but that is the topic of another thread) the interior and engine room scenes were shot onboard and SL-7 in the New Orleans area. . . .

[ATTACH]2802[/ATTACH]Here’s one of Genevieve Lykes from about 1982?

Figured I could contribute some bits from the tug world.






Very nice collection, 87cr250r, appreciate your posting them.

If members haven’t visited the thread “Lake Boat Wilfred Sykes” they should. An excellent collection of videos and write-ups.

Steamship “MANUKAI” (ex: “Hawaiian Enterprise”, built 1970 at Beth Steel Sparrows Point) up on the drydock at Portland, Oregon. September 1999.
Shipping as AB with the Sailors Union of the Pacific at the time.

Steamship “MANUKAI” (ex: Hawaiian Enterprise, built 1970 at Beth Steel Sparrows Point, Baltimore) up on the dry dock at Swan Island Portland, Oregon. September 1999
Shipping as AB with the Sailors Union of the Pacific at the time.

[QUOTE=capnfab;96016]Steamship “MANUKAI” (ex: Hawaiian Enterprise, built 1970 at Beth Steel Sparrows Point, Baltimore) up on the dry dock at Swan Island Portland, Oregon. September 1999
Shipping as AB with the Sailors Union of the Pacific at the time.[/QUOTE]

Those were the days, eh capnfab.

Marco Polo TLP

The Green Canyon area

Tugs Leo and Orion

Just the Orion

Nice pics of those Foss boats in Boston.

I can remember when that “Orion” was named “America” and working on the Willamette & Columbia Rivers in Oregon. Thinks she was a Brix boat then.

Yup was built for brix in 82’ mid-coast marine coos bay, or and was originally called the T.T. America

One of these Z-Drive seen from the bridge wing.

Very helpfull tug …

Winter navigation pleasure …

… a lots of fun !

Sometimes it’s beautiful …

Have a nice & even passage … across the winter North Atlantic !!!

… I don’t know how to say that in Indou ? :wink:

Are these from SF Bay?

The SUP gang poses for the obligatory shot with the vessel’s life ring.

Aboard Matson’s “MahiMahi” (C-9 class, ex: “President Lincoln”, 1982, Avondale) coming up the coast from LA. September 1999.

L to R: Yours truly capnfab holding the life ring, Singapore Sid the bos’n, Carl Smith and Jim Kawasaki. The sailor to the far right, I have forgotten his name. Besides, he had just gotten onboard in LA.

[QUOTE=capnfab;97230]The SUP gang poses for the obligatory shot with the vessel’s life ring.

Aboard Matson’s “MahiMahi” (C-9 class, ex: “President Lincoln”, 1982, Avondale) coming up the coast from LA. September 1999.

L to R: Yours truly capnfab holding the life ring, Singapore Sid the bos’n, Carl Smith and Jim Kawasaki. The sailor to the far right, I have forgotten his name. Besides, he had just gotten onboard in LA.

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Thanks, you do look familiar but I must be incorrect, wrong ship, wrong time, yet ~
I got pictures of me, plus a video, if you look in all the right places.