Ships. My pics from the Waterfront. Dial - up warning.

[maveric]

An old pirate ship.

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

She's a guiding her vessel!

Star of India

Rigging

USS Midway museum

USS Constellation.

[auntAgonist]

1. I love your pictures!

thanks for sharing them, I really enjoy ships. We used to always go to see the Tall Ships when they docked in Toronto.


thanks again!

[maveric]

4. I love ships too. Soon I'll be building them again.

I remember when the Tall Ships came into Boston Harbor, summer of 1976. What a beautiful sight seeing all the masts and sails!

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Those are great.

Can you board them?

[maveric]

5. Yes. They are all museums on San Diego Harbor.

The Constellation takes a special tour with clearance due to it still being in commission.
The USS Midway was taken out of mothballs and tugged down here to be a museum.
If you get down this way you have to take the Midway tour. Its only $15.00.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Great photos!

I got to take a tour of the USS Constellation when it was docked in San Diego like 6 years ago.

[maveric]

6. I built the brig and all the galleys on the "Connie".

All the stainless steel work, all decks, from 1990-92.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Cool!

Hard damn work, that!

[GOPisEvil]

7. I've been on the Star of India and the ship next to it.

I need to get back down there to see the Midway, since I'm a WWII geek. Nice pictures.

[qnr]

9. Nice :) - I used to visit the ships at the South Street Seaport in lower

Manhattan all the time when I was younger, they're fascinating.

[maveric]

10. Tour a newer aircraft carrier.

You'll be facinated at the size and technology.
Its hard to beleive that something that big and made of heavy steel actually floats.

[qnr]

11. I was TAD on the USS Enterprise back in the 80's. They're huge.

Of course, at the time, I was on the largest ship in the Coast Guard, and it was only 400 feet.

[maveric]

13. OMG! Thats NASTY!

Its bad enough its so damn high, but in the icy cold?
Damn!

[qnr]

14. Don't forget the 60 degree rolls crossing Drake's Passage (icebreakers

have round hulls) :)

[maveric]

15. A 60 degree roll would capsize a frigate or a cruiser.

Those breakers are wide enough to stay afloat durnig those rolls.
My hat goes off to you guys.

[driver8]

16. I spent three and a half years on the USS Eisenhower...the

Nimitz class carriers are absolutely amazing.

[maveric]

21. I worked on the John C. Stennis for two years as a contractor.

We picked up the loose ends the yard that built this magnificent vessel left open.
What a beauty!

[driver8]

24. Oh man, I would love to see the Stennis. When I was on the

Eisenhower, I worked in the engineering spaces. (Nuc Machinist Mate). I would love to see the Reactor Rooms and Engine Rooms when they are brand new.

Maveric, what kind of work do you do? Did they build the Stennis at Newport News??

[maveric]

27. Sheet Metal Fab/Design/Installation.

http://www.cvn74.navy.mil/pages/facts/facts.htm
Yes, Newport News.
I didnt get to see the reactor room due a special clearance that all contracrtors werent privvy to.
That would be a sight!

[maveric]

12. A few more.

[driver8]

17. The Constellation is CV-64. That last carrier looks like the Nimitz,

which is CVN-68. Am I reading that number wrong??

[maveric]

20. I stand corected my friend. It is the Nimitz.

Got my numbers mixed up. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

MAveRiC

[CanuckAmok]

18. That sub used to live in New Westminster! BC. My friend Steve...

...shot a documentary on the sub's purchase and voyage from Russia to Canada. It's unfortunately called "From Russia with Sub".

That Russian tall ship was in Victoria this summer... it's HUGE!!!

[maveric]

23. I was wondering where it came from.

It had been a while since I'd been to the harbor and never knew it was there till the other day.
Is that a WWII era sub? It looks old.

[driver8]

25. That russian sub is amazing. I wouldn't want to be stationed on

one, but they are fun to look at.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Wow, maveric...

Wonderful pics! I love love love me some big ships.....

Especially the old sailing ships with the wonderful rigging!

Thanks for posting these....GREAT job!

:loveya: :hug:

[eyepaddle]

22. It might sound odd coming from an almost lifelong midwesterner

but I love ships. There is just something about water, this could well be related to my choice of leisure pursuits (see the sig-line).

But the wind-ships; never has man built a more beautiful machine, and never have we had one where life aboard was so brutish.

Thanks for the photos.

[bertha katzenengel]

26. How cluttered those old wooden ships look! They need to get rid of all

those strings.

;)

Great pics, Mav. Thanks for posting them.