Ship and a Boat
Ship and a Boat, what is the difference? Well, I have always been facinated with ships, I don’t get to see them to often unless I am near the ocean of course. I have always thought about how they made the first boat and as time went by they now make ships like this one below.
We were driving by a ship yard and saw this huge ship being built for the Navy. I don’t know what it is, but there were actually 3 of them being built so I had to snap a photo of this one.
Of course as you walk by any marina down south, the boats are quite pretty. Or I guess you would call these yachts. These by the way are all for sale sitting here and they did not have prices posted on them. I can probably guess they are not cheap.
Then a huge container ship was headed our way so we sat on the edge of the dock and watched in amazement, just to see the sheer size of this thing up close is something to me. I have seen them way out in the waters before. But never this close.
Ship and a Boat
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Where are the top two photos taken if you don’t mind me asking?
The big ship is at Mobile Al. And the yachts were at Destin Florida.
I thought I recognized it, it’s a small world! I’ve spent the majority of my time with my current employer working out of Mobile Al, is that the floating dry dock at BAE systems down town?
Yes, we drove as far down there as we could and saw them building 3 of these ships, theyare called trimaran hull combat ships. I am fascinated with ships and planes and how they are made.
I know what you mean, it’s a company called Austal that builds them next door to the ship yard I’m referring to. They look expensive!
Yes, they are pertty good sized and the one looked like it had a gun of some sort on the deck already. They are suppose to be very fast I think I read about it. We were out on the water and a container ship came right by us. I have never seen one of those up close and I saw that one by the navy ships go right by us. I can only smile and stare, the size of those ships is just amazing when you are that close.
Now this one was fun
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Yes, wait until I get to the videos of the container ships passing by this area. They are something to see in open water especially when we were on a ferry boat passing in front of one. 😳
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These are very big ships/boats … amazing you got so close and I had no idea the container ships were that large until the one that was stuck in the canal and I could see the size of its load. Sometimes on the news now they show the container ships stacked up in the ports and the immensity of not only the ship but its towering cargo just amazes me.
Yes same here Linda. The ones driving the boats are so high in the air.
That always amazes me Sandra – guess they have a bird’s-eye view!
Excellent photos and writing. 🙂
Thank you very much 🙂
ship and boat? both travel by sea
Yes, I could not come up with a good title for this one. 😊
I always enjoy watching the huge cargo ships come through Port Aransas – generally stunned at just how big those are. More importantly, at least at Aransas, the dolphins will race them through the port. A bit difficult to time their leaps out of the water, but a joy when you get it just right. I also see all that steel and recall my brother’s in depth look into the magnetic deviations caused by the building of ships (pounding metal changes magnetic properties) and the compensation they had to do back in the day due to the added magnetism deviation caused by steel cannonballs which distort their compasses – it is a technical read, but that post is here – https://deadreckonings.com/2009/04/18/magnetic-deviation-comprehension-compensation-and-computation-part-i/ Can’t imagine the cost of those yachts these days. Thanks for sharing.
I would love to see the dolphins going along with the boats. Yes, this is the closest I have ever been to a container ship. It was coming down a narrow cannal and we just sat there and watched it. Amazing, I did not know about the magnetic properties with building these things. I love learning about this type of stuff. Same with air craft, mostly in the air force. Amazing what they make now a days like the Chinook and jets. Thank you for the link, I will be reading this.
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Although size matters, one definition is that a ship can carry a boat and but a boat can not carry a ship. Also if it sails under the sea, it is called a boat, although some submarines(called boats) can be larger than some ships. Clear as mud, right?
Clear as mud, 🙂 yes. I like that. It is so amazing how big these ships really are. One doesn’t really see it from a distance but if you get close to one and have to look up. That is something. 🙂
Wow!
Thank you 😉 ships are so amazing
Definitely
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I agree!
A Wonderful photos!
Have a noce day. 😊
Thank you, you also 🙂
Sorry,have a Nice day 😥
Big difference in size between these twoo 🙂 Ships are fascinating and nice subjects for photography.
Have a nice day Sandra.
Thank you Rudi, yes the pictures do not really show the massive size as it does when you are standing close to one of these. A wonderful day to you also Rudi 🙂
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Thank you Mic 🙂
From a Navy standpoint, it’s also worth remembering that submarines – even though the nuclear subs are massive – are still referred to as “boats.”
Mhm, U-boats to be more precise. 😉
🙂 thank you, yes, )
U-boats were German.
Nope, that were and still is one U-Boot (singular) and are U-Boote (plural). And they were not German but Deutsch.
But underseaboats are English.
Loved the 1981 film Das Boot… (The Boat)
German/Deutsch is the translation. There is a lot to be found on the internet searching “U-Boats”.
Here’s one good link. There are countless others . https://www.britannica.com/technology/U-boat
https://www.britannica.com/technology/U-boat Here is a good link…one among countless others. Great photos too.
I did not know that, I went in one that was at a museum somewhere in Georgia I think it was. A very old one that was really small compared to what the are now. No way I could go in one of those under water. Takes a brave person to do that.
My younger brother, after being commissioned in the Navy in 1974 was a hard-hat diver but then went through the Navy Nuclear Power Program after being interviewed by the legendary Admiral Rickover. He retired ten years ago as a Captain and his last command was as skipper of the Nuclear Sub USS Spadefish. His boat surfaced up through the ice at the North Pole twice. Quite a bit different than the WW II submarines.
Wow, that is so interesting. We love to visit the museums of war ships and subs. My husband is very tall and he started to panic in that small sub we walked through, he could barely walk through the doorways.