Saturday, January 30, 2010

Embarrassing to be a Captain ...

... because every time you return to your ship ....



... and no - that isn't a photoshop.
UPDATE: A shot of the bow here.

15 comments:

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

Just as you could read a lot into the name of the small British coaster, JOLLY NIGHTS.

William Powell said...

Reminds me of the USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887).  There was always some joker who would paint haze grey over the "B"s when they were touching up the hull.  ;)

Chris Dudas said...

Some things are just lost in translation I guess.

Tugboat said...

At least it isn't named 'Yukon Uranus' :)

Old Salt said...

The World Shipping Register at  http://e-ships.net/index/T7.shtml doesn't list this ship, nor the name it is supposed to have now (TITAN TAURUS).  Shipspotting has a picture of a ship with the same IMO number in Hong Kong two years later (an interesting picture IMO) at http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=324249. I can't tell if this is the same ship or whether IMO numbers can be reassigned. Looks like the same ship to me based on a superficial scan of the photographs.

I used to see a decimal point regularly painted in between the two digits of CURTS' hull number (FFG 38). Every ship has a nickname, of course - now, there wold be an interesting post!

cdrsalamander said...

C'est un mystere.

SJBill said...

The Flagship of Nancy Pelosi's dream navy.

Byron Audler said...

"Shortly after pronouncing his support for a repeal of the US Navy's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, the President expressed a desire a Presidential yacht befitting his place as the leader of the worlds most powerful nation. The US. Navy quickly responded"

C-dore 14 said...

Hey---I remember seeing that while in Long Beach on Midn cruise years ago.

xformed said...

Quote of the Day.. Maybe the Onion will pick up your funny...and make a 30 sec out of it!

UltimaRatioRegis said...

Anyone remember the Belushi skit about the pirate ship, "The Raging Queen"? 

AW1 Tim said...

 Oh yeah... "A Manly Ship, with Manly Men!"  =-O

andrewdb said...

Solves one problem, but still leaves Rum and the Lash.

MR T's Haircut said...

HAHA 

Byron Audler said...

Good gravy...that ship has been rode hard and ain't NEVER put up wet! It's been a helluva long time since she's seen a dry dock for a shave and a hair cut (yardbird for blast and paint), for sure any anti-fouling she used to have got eat up by the barnacles! And FYI, the bow pic looks like one you'd see if she was in "dry lay-up", correct me if I'm wrong, Lee.