Ships gallery

Not so much ships as boats I guess, but here's some nautical scenes from beautiful Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada. I was lucky enough to spend a month here in 2006.

http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...es/mansons.jpg


http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...s/squirrel.jpg


http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...es/rowboat.jpg


http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...s/seaplane.jpg


http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...s/mansons7.jpg


http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery...es/sunset2.jpg

See more of this lovely place here-

http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery/cortez/cortez.html

HI
Some great photo's, looks a wonderful place.
Thanks Reg.:)

Great pictures KH. It's a lovely part of the World. I haven't got any pictures of me travels, so I love seeing photos that I shoulda had.

Cheers lads. It is indeed a lovely place. Only tiny and squeezed in between the Rockies and Vancouver Island, which you can see in the background and which is huge, the size of Britain.
The light there was amazing, very different to here and great for photography.

Gret pic's I'd just love to get my hands on that Beaver!!:unibrow: (with apologies to de Havilland)

Commuter traffic I wouldn't mind?

Great pictures knowhowe, thanks for posting. I wouldn't mind going there myself. It looks amazing.

D. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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Commuter traffic I wouldn't mind?

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Indeed. Those float planes were everywhere, taxis of the skies. We got one down from Vancouver to the island and got ferries back, which was cheaper but no less enjoyable. Smallest aircraft I've ever been in (except a microlight), the views were stunning...
They can land on the smallest stretch of water, this shows how they just slot in among the boats when mooring...

http://www.bwpics.co.uk/yoliverpool/floatplane.JPG

If you're looking for a really special holiday, a combination of Vancouver (direct flights from Manchester), the Rockies and the 'Discovery Islands' is definitely it. Beats the crap out of the Med.

It's the same all up the Pacifis Coast. I was in Alaska, and they use them to go to the shops. I hitched a lift on a few of them. I thought militarry flying was hairy. Jeez, them guys just don't give a hoot. They were the worst flights I ever had.

'Cept for a crazy Russian in Venezuala. If he's reading this, you scared me to death you b4stard.

Too right. I think scaring the **** of tourists brought a bit of interest to their working day.
The place they landed and took off from in Vancouver was nuts, dodging boats and canoes as a matter of course...

http://www.bwpics.co.uk/yoliverpool/vancouver.JPG

This is Vancouver Harbour's equivant of the Mersey Ferry- these water taxis are the titchiest little public transport craft I've ever seen..

http://www.bwpics.co.uk/yoliverpool/watertaxi.JPG

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Indeed. Those float planes were everywhere, taxis of the skies. We got one down from Vancouver to the island and got ferries back, which was cheaper but no less enjoyable.

If you're looking for a really special holiday, a combination of Vancouver (direct flights from Manchester), the Rockies and the 'Discovery Islands' is definitely it. Beats the crap out of the Med.

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Thanks KH, I'll bear that in mind. It looks really amazing. I've done the US rockies, but you can't see the backdrop against the water like that. I've been up in a similar plane [De Havilland DHC-6 Canada Twin Otter] in the Maldives. The pilot was so laid back and chilled, flying without shoes, and commentary all the way. Nice job.

Great pictures BTW.

D.

...harbor was way more crowed than anywhere in the Mersey...:)

The water taxis in Victoria, just like the Vancouver ones, where everywhere like you say, float planes of several sizes seem to be taking off or landing every few minutes and lots of smaller pleasure craft around. By comparison, Victoria Airport where I landed (no floats...:)...) was quite calm.

Here is a more traditional shot of the Empress hotel I took in July this year, with one of the water taxis behind the canoes. One of the several seaplane jetties is just off the picture to the left.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...1&d=1260504918

More pics near Cortes island to follow...

Great pictures guys. Excellent views.

I took this one of the France when she was coming back to Dunkirk from her States run in 67. A beautiul looking ship,sad that she had such a short commercial life,
BrianD

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I took this one of the France when she was coming back to Dunkirk from her States run in 67. A beautiul looking ship,sad that she had such a short commercial life,
BrianD

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Didn't she catch fire Brian?

`FRANCE` of the French Line,
Launched May 1960, and maiden voyage in January 1962 and used on the Southampton, Le Havre, New York run.
In 1975 she was laid up in Le Havre on the "Quay of the Forgotten," I saw her there when she had just tied up and the crew had a strike and a `sit in`, but to no avail.
In 1979 the Norwegian Line bought her and she was redone as a cruise ship instead of a Liner and renamed `NORWAY`.
In 2003, 8 men were killed in a boiler room explosion in Miami and she never cruised again. She was renamed Blue Lady for the one way journey to Alang in India and run ashore there, despite a great attempt to save the ship and moor her in St Nazier where she was built. In 2008 she was scrapped.
She was the longest liner in the world until the `Queen Mary 2` was built. She was 315 m. and QM2 is 345m.

Nice one Captain.

I was doing the Canadian Rockies along the Ice Field Parkway around the Athabasca Glacier on my way from Banf to Jasper.

An American tourist said to me `What a fantastic sight`.
I said `Yes but the view is spoiled by those mountains, if they wern`t there we could have a better view.`
The American looked at me and said, `What are you ? some kinda nut?`

I guess he didnt have too much of a sense of humour.

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I was doing the Canadian Rockies along the Ice Field Parkway around the Athabasca Glascier on my way from Banf to Jasper.

An American tourist said to me `What a fantastic sight`.
I said `Yes but the view is spoiled by those mountains, if they wern`t there we could have a better view.`
The American looked at me and said, `What are you ? some kinda nut?`

I guess he didnt have too much of a sense of humour.

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Ha, Yanks just don't understand.

That's typical, who was it said that we are seperated from them by a common language!! They have never quite mastered sarcasm either.

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I was doing the Canadian Rockies along the Ice Field Parkway around the Athabasca Glacier on my way from Banf to Jasper.

An American tourist said to me `What a fantastic sight`.
I said `Yes but the view is spoiled by those mountains, if they wern`t there we could have a better view.`
The American looked at me and said, `What are you ? some kinda nut?`

I guess he didnt have too much of a sense of humour.

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He must have been from the mid-west. Irony passed them by. Irony has a lot to do with salt air.

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Ha, Yanks just don't understand.

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...he didn't call it quaint...:)

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Ha, Yanks just don't understand.

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He must have been from the mid-west. Irony passed them by. Irony has a lot to do with salt air.

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...as flat as a pancake (the Mid-West)

Gil A. ...living at 3000 ft only 10 miles from a 10,000 ft mountain....:)

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Irony has a lot to do with salt air.

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Would Iron-y be more corrosive in salt-air?

Most of the Mid West is dry. No alcohol. That explains a lot.

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Most of the Mid West is dry. No alcohol. That explains a lot.

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...that would just be Utah and some Southern states.

Heck... the beer is brewed in Wisconsin...

It is dry where I live, 5 dry counties together. It can be put on the ballot but in the 'Bible Belt' it never gets changed.
It does have its advantages, no rivers of puke and pee in the streets on Saturday nights and a way lower crime rate than in areas which sell booze.
I enjoy a drink now and again so I go to Missouri to buy mine. The state line is only 20 miles from me.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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It is dry where I live, 5 dry counties together. It can be put on the ballot but in the 'Bible Belt' it never gets changed.
It does have its advantages, no rivers of puke and pee in the streets on Saturday nights and a way lower crime rate than in areas which sell booze.
I enjoy a drink now and again so I go to Missouri to buy mine. The state line is only 20 miles from me.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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Ha, only 20 miles away. Couldn't make it there Bernie. Love me pubs.

The passenger liner Kaisar-I-Hind was built in 1914 by Caird& Co. of Greenock for the Bombay service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. It was the second succesive vessel of the company to bear that name,which derives from the Sanskrit for Empress of India. During the First World War she survived no fewer than 5 attacks by submarine torpedo,one of which struck her but actually failed to explode and, following abrief charter to Cunard Line in 1921 under the name Emperor of India,she returned to P&O service until 1938 ,when she was sold for breaking up at Blyth.
The painting is another one of Charles Dixons,you can see that masterly touch.



P.S. I loved the pictures from Canada,and the ensuing discussion but can we try and keep this thread for pictures of ships,
thanks,
BrianD

Nice one Brian. Sorry for that, it's usually me that goes off thread. Gotta mind that skips and jumps. I shall try my utmost to discipline meself in the future.

In 2001 I went to Ascension Island and in a small cove, Comfortless Cove. A small entrance over the volcanic rocks was a small clearance of only a few yards surrounded by black lava flows. In there was a dozen or so graves of Royal Navy sailors. They had died at Ascension from diseases from the West Coast of Africa around 1823 to around 1858. The place was clean and tidy and the grave markers appeared to have had a recent coat of paint.
A sad and lonely place

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P.S. I loved the pictures from Canada,and the ensuing discussion but can we try and keep this thread for pictures of ships,
thanks,
BrianD

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That's me told. Wasn't sure where else to put 'em however...

Sorry Brian,

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In 2001 I went to Ascension Island and in a small cove, Comfortless Cove. A small entrance over the volcanic rocks was a small clearance of only a few yards surrounded by black lava flows. In there was a dozen or so graves of Royal Navy sailors. They had died at Ascension from diseases from the West Coast of Africa around 1823 to around 1858. The place was clean and tidy and the grave markers appeared to have had a recent coat of paint.
A sad and lonely place

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Nice one Captain. I think I seen these. They were looked after when I seen them.

I was in Punta Arenas, Chile in the Magellan Straits in 2006 when I found a Trawler from the UK.
She was the Boston Beverley once registered in Grimsby now same name but registered in Valparaiso, Chile. Fishing 10,000 miles away from home.

Nice one Captain.

In Grytviken, South Georgia are three ships abandoned on the beach, relics of the old whaling and sealing days.There is the `PETREL` a whale chaser still with the harpoon gun on the focsle, , and the VIOLA and ALBATROSS, two sealers alongside each other.
They had been semi submerged but recently hauled up the beach.
The Viola, which was sold to the Argentinos around the 1920s, was renamed, DIAZ, has a beautiful coal burning, steam engine, all the brass work is in excellent condition considering it is over 100 years old. there is a team of enthusiasts, all volunteers, trying to restore her and get her back to Humberside where she was built as a trawler.

The last photo is of a brass memorial to three British Soldiers who have been killed on South Georgia, it is in the Norwegian Church, One of the Soldiers was a near neighbour, unfortunately his family have moved to another part of town, so I am still trying to find them to give them the photo of thier son`s memorial.

Nice one Captain.

It was good to see the whaling ships as they are,redundant. If only we could get the Japanese, Norwegians and Icelanders to do the same to their whaling fleet. Thanks for posting them Brian, it brought back good memories of seeing those Leviathans off the Canadian coast,incredible sight,
BrianD

Built by J.L.Thompson in Sunderland in 1949 as Silveryew,for the Silver Line of London,the freighter Eastern Glory was purchased on the stocks and so renamed by the Indi-China Steam NavigationCo. of Jardine Mattheson & Co.
The Princely Hong,whose emblem of the St. Andrews saltire she is wearing on both houseflag and stem crest. She was briefly chartered by the Government during the 1956 Suez crisis and 10 years later was sold to Ben Line,renamed Bennachie she sailed on until 1971 when she was scrapped.
The portrait was painted by an unknown Chinese artist and shows her leaving Hong Kong ,painted long before Hong Kong soared skywards,
BrianD