Adventures of the Blackgang
Thalassophilia, Nautical History, Culture, and Art
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HMS Warrior at Portsmouth’s No.10 dry dock undergoing a major refit.
1872-1875
HMS Warrior was a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61.
She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy’s torpedo training school.
The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to the Maritime Trust for restoration.
The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987. more
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Sloop of war USS Constellation at anchor in 1890. She is now preserved as a museum ship in Baltimore.
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SS Meteor Museum Ship, World’s Last Whaleback 8/17/16. 200 Marina Drive, Superior, WI 54880 https://goo.gl/QmcZrH https://goo.gl/QEPCGy
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Unknown Industrial Waterway - Great Lakes - Ship: Willis B. Boyer
Col. James M. Schoonmaker [aka Willis B Boyer (1972–2011)] is a lake freighter that served as a commercial vessel (iron ore, grain, and coal) on the Great Lakes for much of the 20th Century. It is currently a museum ship in Toledo, Ohio.
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Tarmo is a Finnish steam-powered icebreaker preserved in the Maritime Museum of Finland in Kotka. Built in 1907 by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
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Posrt of Ostend and the museumship barquentine Mercator
The barquentine Mercator was designed by the Antarctic explorer Adrien de Gerlache (1866–1934) as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer. She was built in Leith, Scotland and launched in 1932.
Besides being a training a ship, she was also used, mainly before World War II, for scientific observations, or as ambassador for Belgium on world fairs and in sailing events. She participated in several races, winning the 1960 Oslo-Oostende tall ships race. –Museum site for barquentine Mercator - Oostende, Belgium
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photo by whatsthatpicture. see HMS Belfast (Set: 20)
HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum.
Construction of Belfast, named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick’s Day, 17 March 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany.In November 1939 Belfast struck a German mine and spent more than two years undergoing extensive repairs. Returning to action in November 1942 with improved firepower, radar equipment and armour, Belfast was the largest and arguably most powerful cruiser in the Royal Navy at the time…
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Time magazine, March 17, 1941
Fitting out: BB55 in Brooklyn Navy Yard NY, tied up at pier; 1941
USS North Carolina (BB-55) - (Showboat) was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of this U.S. state. She was the first new-construction U.S. battleship to enter service during World War II, participating in every major naval offensive in the Pacific theater to become the most decorated U.S. battleship of the war with 15 battle stars. She is now a museum ship at the port of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Bow view… HMS Warrior drydocked
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HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armour-plated warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French La Gloire, launched a year earlier.
When completed in October 1861, Warrior was by far the largest, fastest, most heavily armed and most heavily armoured warship the world had ever seen. She was almost twice the size of La Gloire and thoroughly outclassed the French ship in speed, armour, and gunnery.
Her construction started an intense international competition between guns and armour that did not end until air power made battleships obsolete in the Second World War. HMS Warrior became an early example of the trend towards rapid battleship obsolescence and was withdrawn as a fighting unit in May 1883. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, she is now a museum ship in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
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William G Mather; profile, Cleveland
photo by Thom Sheridan
William Gwinn Mather (1857 – 1951) was an American industrialist who was born in Ohio. Mather headed the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company for 50 years from 1890 through 1940. During his tenure he consolidated several mining operations and diversified into iron-ore industries and steel operations. The company’s flagship bulk freighter was named in his honor, and today serves as a maritime museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The NYK Hikawamaru is a floating maritime museum. It used to run to Seattle. From 1930, it is filled with gorgeous art deco things! I wanted to move in.
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Intrepid CV11 Aircraft Carrier; US Navy
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting “I”, is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name.
Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS).
In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the first US aircraft carrier to launch aircraft with steam catapults, and being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission.
Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed “the Fighting I”, while her often ill-luck and the time spent in dry dock for repairs earned her the nickname “the Dry I”.
Decommissioned in 1974, in 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City.more on Wiki
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SS John W. Brown, also known as B-4611, is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational today (the other being the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco). The ship is today a museum ship located at Clinton Street Pier 1 in Baltimore Harbor. The ship was named after labor union leader John W. Brown.
The John W. Brown made 13 wartime voyages to the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, including duty during the Anzio landings. She was also part of the liberation force of Southern France during Operation Dragoon in August, 1944. After the war, the John W. Brown carried government cargoes to help rebuild war-torn Europe and returned American troops to the United States.
After 1946, she was loaned by the government to the City of New York, where she became a floating nautical high school, the only one in the United States. The ship served in that capacity from 1946 to 1982, graduating thousands of students prepared to begin careers in the Merchant Marine, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.
In 1988 Project Liberty Ship Baltimore was able to rescue her and restore her, and found her a home in Baltimore, Maryland near where she was built. In September 1988, the John W. Brown was rededicated as a memorial museum at ceremonies at Dundalk Marine Terminal.
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Enrico Toti was a Balilla class Italian submarine laid down on 26 January 1925 at the Odero-Terni-Orlando Naval Yard, located in Muggiano, La Spezia.
The submarine is notable as being the only Italian submarine to have sunk a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War.
The name Enrico Toti would later be used for new class of Italian submarine (Toti class submarine), with the S506 Enrico Toti being laid down in 1965, launched in 1967, decommissioned in 1992 and preserved as a museum ship in Milan.
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Next day, there was a call at Charlestown, until quite recently a working port for the export of china clay, but now home to preserved sailing vessels, one of which lies at anchor in the bay