Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: tobyker on March 21, 2012, 06:02:37 pm
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The world's largest undersea pipelaying ship. Solitaire, is off Largs at present. Saw it this pm on our way to/from the garden centre (ugh). I tried to take a photo of it on my phone but I doubt it will come out - easier to use a ship tracker and look her up on the web!
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Usual wiki type info on her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(ship)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_%28ship%29
Dave
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There are also a couple of interesting youtube bits on how the pipe sections are loaded, welded and pushed out the back!
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some nice pics on AIS
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
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what a ship,she is quite old underneath, 1972 slug