... and no - that isn't a photoshop.
UPDATE: A shot of the bow here.
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.
... and no - that isn't a photoshop.
UPDATE: A shot of the bow here.
Just as you could read a lot into the name of the small British coaster, JOLLY NIGHTS.
ReplyDeleteReminds 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. ;)
ReplyDeleteSome things are just lost in translation I guess.
ReplyDeleteAt least it isn't named 'Yukon Uranus' :)
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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!
C'est un mystere.
ReplyDeleteThe Flagship of Nancy Pelosi's dream navy.
ReplyDelete"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"
ReplyDeleteHey---I remember seeing that while in Long Beach on Midn cruise years ago.
ReplyDeleteQuote of the Day.. Maybe the Onion will pick up your funny...and make a 30 sec out of it!
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember the Belushi skit about the pirate ship, "The Raging Queen"?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah... "A Manly Ship, with Manly Men!" =-O
ReplyDeleteSolves one problem, but still leaves Rum and the Lash.
ReplyDeleteHAHA
ReplyDeleteGood 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.
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