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When it comes to being impressed by engineering, I have to confess that ships have always been pretty well down the list.

However Dad, being ex-Royal Navy, has always made a point of watching the Mighty Ships series on Quest TV (Discovery Lite) and I now realise how much more there is to ships than meets the eye.

Consequently, the arrival of the cruise ship 'Harmony of the Seas' at Southampton this week, attracted my attention.

The Daily Mail has its shortcomings but, credit where credit is due, they excel at photo features.

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World’s biggest cruise ship Harmony of the Seas rules the waves as it docks in Southampton ahead of maiden voyage.

Harmony Of The Seas is a 1,188 foot and 227,000-ton cruise ship - the newest and biggest the world has ever seen

Worth £800m, it boasts the Ultimate Abyss - the tallest slide at sea - as well as seven separate ‘neighbourhoods’

Stood on its stern the ship would soar above the Shard, the Eiffel Tower and the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai

It is 330ft longer than the Titanic, and can carry a human cargo of 8,880 including 2,100 crew from 77 countries

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The largest cruise ship in the world – measuring more than four football pitches in length with a maximum capacity for 6,780 passengers – has docked in Southampton for final preparations before its maiden voyage.

A small crowd of well-wishers, including some dressed in their pyjamas, welcomed the £800million Harmony of the Seas as it arrived just after dawn today, but tens of thousands of people are expected to visit the coastal city this week to catch a glimpse of the gigantic vessel before it carries paying customers for the first time.

After sailing from a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, and spending the day yesterday cruising the English Channel, Harmony of the Seas sailed up Southampton Water and arrived at Southampton shortly after 6:15am.

It will depart on a short cruise on Sunday – a four-day taster voyage to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands – and on 29 May will make its maiden voyage to Barcelona, where it will be based for 34 seven-night tours of the western Mediterranean this summer. It will sail between Florida and the Caribbean this winter.

Royal Caribbean International’s 18-deck ship has set new records for length (1,1188ft), gross tonnage (227,000), width (215.5ft), passenger capacity (5,479 at double occupancy or a maximum of 6,780) and staterooms (2,747).

With a crew of 2,100 from 77 countries, the floating city boasts seven 'neighbourhoods', a 10-storey slide that is the tallest at sea, 23 swimming pools, 20 dining venues, 52 trees, surf simulators, robot bartenders, a casino and climbing walls.

There are more impressive photos at the Daily Mail.

Yup, it's big.

I would not want to set foot on it though. Too many damn people. Almost 9k people? Gimme a cabin on a lake. That's much better. And much lest chance of Rotavirus.

Our Mr. Carruthers has a better pic of Harmony of the Seas than Wikipedia:

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I wouldn't get on that boat...:headshake

I'd love to spend a day exploring the ship, if everybody else got off. It's fascinating from a design/build standpoint, but cruising doesn't appeal to me. That doesn't reflect poorly on people who dig that sort of thing, I can see the attraction, just not my bag. The comments at the Daily Mail were mostly negative except for some guy named Allen, defending it like an investor or travel agent.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 960563)

The comments at the Daily Mail were mostly negative except for some guy named Allen, defending it like an investor or travel agent.

I heard on the radio during the night that five thousand people from the travel and tourist business are being entertained on board for three days so I think you've hit the nail on the head there!

The place I live has a population of about nine thousand so it's equivalent to the max number of souls on board this ship.

A cruise isn't something I'd volunteer for. At least I have some chance of escape here!

As of five minutes ago it's still moored in Southampton.

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Ship Finder

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 960563)

This.

It's a marvel, and I'd love to explore it. I loved exploring the USS New Jersey with about 100 Boy Scouts a few years ago. Would have been different to be on that ship with 3,000 sailors. I'd be spending all my time just trying to get out of the way.

Hey, Harmony of the Seas...

...Gotcher nose!

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The HMS Illustrious - FOR SALE!

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Sailboat for scale.

They're never as pretty before the make-up:

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Sailboat?

Airport for scale.

New owner could catch SOME REALLY BIG AIR from that gnarly ramp, duuuuude.

US Battleships Missouri and Iowa off Korea in 1952...

We got some spare ships, see. We need to do something with them, see. Here's what we'll do, see. We'll beat the shit out of it after towing it out to sea, see.

Here, see:

After the halfway point of the vid, it's just a camera circling the ship, documenting damage. The Mk-48 torpedo made a mark.

Here's the story. Interesting how much damage the USS Thach took before finally giving up the ghost 12 hours later.

I'm guessing somebody got a big, Russian boot in they ass after this.

Cargo breaks loose from the transport ships all the time.

My first destroyer found floating cargo containers more than once. Sadly, we lacked a crane to recover them to see what was inside.

That cargo loss could have been prevented with the use of pipe stakes.

Saw that on gCaptian the other day. Somebody is gonna be writing some big checks.

Popdigr said almost that same exact sentence.

"Somebody's gonna hafta write an awful big check."

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Originally Posted by fargon (Post 968527)

Saw that on gCaptian the other day. Somebody is gonna be writing some big checks.

Fargon, I killed way too much time on that site, gCaptain.

Thanx.:)

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 969093)

Fargon, I killed way too much time on that site, gCaptain.

Thanx.:)

I get all of my maritime news from them, I signed up for the daily email years ago. Maritime Monday is always interesting the stories are historical and human interest of a nautical bent.

Gravdigr had this in his this day in history.

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 969258)

Gravdigr had this in his this day in history.

Not mine, ours.;)

Thanks for posting that, Griff.

I'd read a couple of abbreviated accounts of the disaster, but I hadn't seen that vid before.

On to other points of interest. The next Ford-class aircraft carrier is scheduled for commission in 2025. "And Admiral, it is the Enterprise".

:blkwht::whtblk:

:borg:

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One of the last color pictures of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

all the ones after that are watercolor

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Big sisters

The world’s three largest cruise ships have sailed together for the first time off Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas, Allure of the Seas and the new Harmony of the Seas came together to celebrate the arrival of the last at her permanent base of Port Everglades.
Each vessel weighs more than 225,000 tons, has a park with nearly 12,000 plants and trees as well as an 82ft zip wire and an outdoor “aqua theatre”.

I'm not comfortable with the statement that 'each vessel weighs more than 225,000 tons'. 'Weighs'?. Do they mean 'displaces'?

I'll ask Dad a bit later. He's an old sea dog and I've been barked at once this morning already. I think I'll let sleeping sea dogs lie. ;)

According to Archimedes it's the same thing.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 972896)

According to Archimedes it's the same thing.

You make a good point, sir!

I think I queried it because every time mention of a ship's 'weight' is made on TV, aged Dad yells 'DISPLACEMENT'! :eek:

I must have absorbed that attitude by osmosis. ;)

word.

That's a pretty good size ~~wooden~~sail boat considering how freaking enormous the carrier is.

http://www.sailtraining.org/memberve...ssel.php?@=218

steel hull

Hey, there's my Dad...

Is this the line for the porta john?

tarheel

Big turnout for the shuffleboard playoffs.

I saw a video awhile back of a big ass navy ship when the anchor handler caught fire then fed chain all the way out and lost it.

It dawned on me watching this video, that brake on the anchor chair not only has to control the chain feeding out, it has to hold the ship when the wind is making it pull against the anchor. DUH. :smack:

That's the same as BigV's.

I don't care how big they are, they're not safe from rogue waves, communicable disease, or zombie attacks.

The bigger they are, the harder they....sink?

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Originally Posted by Pamela (Post 975578)

The bigger they are, the harder they....roll over while un-drydocking?

Fixed that to reflect current events:

Indian Navy frigate flips over in dock, killing 2

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'Sposed to look like this:

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The INS Betwa had just undergone unspecified repairs, and was being removed from dry dock when it rolled over on its side.

That first picture looks like a colorized picture from WW2. Nothing modern about it.

Nothing to it, all you need is two hands to wrap the sails and two hands to hang on. :eyebrow:

No. No indeed. Hell no.

I could not agree more.

But I am even more mystified as to how the picture was taken. It doesn't look like it came from a GoPro Hero 4 or a drone or a remote MastCam (tm). There's at least one other person in this event who doesn't have a realistic sense of fear. But that might be me.

Looks like one of the Boy Scouts was absent on knot-tying day (actually, they needed a bigger rope, I guess):

That was strange. They had their side thrusters on but couldn't stop it. The small rope that was still attached is probably the line they pull the hawser with. The boat they hit was tied up but looked like the props were churning up a storm. :confused:

They don't build 'em like they used to.

Fast turns...
USS Gonzalez (DDG-66). 2007

USS Harry S Truman 2013

Came in a little hot:

Slowest crash ever.

One of those finger in front of the lens fools. Anyway, it's Ketichan's fault for having a flimsy dock. :haha:

I've docked there, not on a cruise ship, Alaska Marine Highway vessel... it sounds windy as hell. I reckon they were blown into the dock.

anyhow, that'll buff right out.