This one deffinately had nice lines:
We had the same practice onboarding our steam-powered icebreakers. “Shaking hands with the bearings”, they called it.
Once upon a time tugs had “lines” (I don’t mean just tow lines):
OK no longer active in Ocean Towage, but still sailing from time to time.
PS> Maybe this video is mostly interesting for the Engineers
They look very much like the Smit Man engines I sailed with on Free Enterprise V, a ferry running out of Dover, UK at the time. She had three straight 12s in the main engine room and I thought that the view at full revs when standing in one corner of the engine room and looking across the engine tops was close to poetry in motion.
One more british India ship (from just before the end for B.I.):
I would presume that somebody can see where she is here and where she is heading?
As I’ve been looking at this “British India” ship it reminds me of this Feadship Motor Yacht. It’s 82’ built in 1953 I see it listed in Bone Yard Boats where they have been trying to give it away to someone who would somewhat restore it. Just something about it. I don’t know if these two were of the same time period or not.
The BI ship you see here is the Bamora, blt. 1961.
One more tug with lines, the Cristo XXIV (ex Fairplay IX):
Not to mention this beautiful tug, the SA Amandla:
Once the world’s most powerful tug (together with her sister, the John Ross.
An entirely different type of ship, but also with lines:
The yacht Chantal, blt. 1985, major refit 2013.
Builder: John Nylen
Designer: John Nylen and James S. Krogen
Flag of Registry: Norway
When ships really had lines they looked like this:
Fast and nimble. Built for and very suitable for fighting.
But if you wanted to haul cargo, you needed something a bit wider and more suited for long crossings and rough weather, like the Knarr:
Interesting that looking back into the “bronze age” that we are doing things today in much the same way. In those times in ships like those above the containerization was part of the ballast. The hold had a load of sand (plenty of it free) and the goods were often carried in clay amphora (those pointed clay vases. These had many forms but were designed to transport wine or olive oil etc. If more precious goods were in the amphora, then those amphora may have been painted or decorated. But those pointed ends were
part of the design for them to be pressed into the wet sand and remain stable.
Just an observation on shipping packaged goods back then where the goods were also balast.
I had the honor to sail aboard the N/S Savannah as a mate for her final years. Beautiful inside and out. It would be much cheaper, and a lot more efficient to build new if we ever have another nuclear vessel. There have been a lot of improvements since she was designed in the 1950’s. One interesting design piece that very few know about" Look at the raised section just forward of the house. The draft design had the house sitting forward on that section. The Nuclear Reactor is under that section and finally someone asked " What if we have to get to the reactor for servicing? So they just took the deck above the reactor and slid it back on the design. I was very much an honor to be part of a wonderful crew making American Maritime History.
I used to volunteer as crew onboard a youth sail training vessel the Spiriof New Zealand, a 3 masted barquentine of 286 tonnes. We carried 40 youths of both sexes who when they first joined were white-knuckled aloft but after 10 days moved around like squirrels. The lower picture shows her on a reach in sheltered waters in a near gale doing 13 knots.
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When I joined the Sørlandet for pre-sea training together with 52 other boys from 15-17 (1959) we had the same experience.
At first a lot of the cadets were reluctant to climb the rig at all, but the daily morning routine of competing between those assigned to each mast who could get everybody up one side and down the other helped push the reluctant to “perform”.
PS> For us that cane from Ålesund and Tromsø this was no problem, we had been climbing the masts on seal catchers from we were tall enough to manage. (10-12 yrs. old)
Seal catcher Polarstar in the St.Lawrence Gulf:
This one is still existing, now as a museum ship:
I’ve always liked the lines on the larger tuna seiners.
For me, the most beautiful, still active tall-ship.
The full-rigged officers training ship of the Italian navy ‘Amerigo Vespucci’.
In service since 1931, she is still crossing the oceans. The Italian TV showed her interiors, at least partially just a beautiful museum underway.
In the bay of Naples
Better lines than many purpose built private yachts but I would scrap the cold Ikea style interior spaces.
A replica of a “Bankskøyte” from mid- to late-1800s was built in Ålesund a few years ago and, named; “Storeggen” av Aalesund .
This type of fishing boats were a revolution at the time, enabling fishing trips much further from the coast and the delivery point for the catch.
Today I spotted her cruising in the Borgundfjord and took some pictures:
She is now back at her normal mooring at the Fishery Museum in town:
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