Cap San Diego
IMO : 5060794
Build : 1962 by Deutsche Werft – Hamburg in Germany, nr 785
The olden days, when ships were made from wood and sailors were still (more…)
Cap San Diego
IMO : 5060794
Build : 1962 by Deutsche Werft – Hamburg in Germany, nr 785
The olden days, when ships were made from wood and sailors were still (more…)
Top Somethings I
And here is the last one of our Top Something List countdown, the pinnacle of them all: the most hit posts:
Top 10 posts
10 : Rachid Fares Enterprises:ย 1725 hits. The company was in the news last week when the Danny II sank of Lebanon.
9 : Ramform Sovereign: 1865 hits. A vessel with a weirdly shaped hull
8 : Swimday-special Solar Boat: 1885 hits. A special post for Tugsters Swimday-project
7 : A: 2100 hits. A strange design yacht with a strange name.
6 : Aeria: 2475 hits. My little pet-project.
5 : Min Duo: 1881 hits. A vessel resembling the Colloseum from Rome.
4 : Star Princess: 2875 hits. A cruisevessel with Star Wars sunglasses.
3 : MSC Daniela: 4131 hits. A monster of a containervessel.
2 : Sea Shadow: 4691 hits. No shadow of a doubt: Ugly!
and the ultimate ugly ship according to hits:
1 : USS Independence (LCS-2): 9392 hits.
Have a fabulous evening and a prosperous 2010, see you next year!
Autosky
IMO: 9206774
Build: 2000 by Tsuneishi Shipbuilding – Tokyo in Japan, nr 1184
Something just doesn’t look right about this vessel. (more…)
Top Somethings List II
Here is nr 2 in our countdown to 2010 of Top Something Lists.
Today’s subject is not really a list as such, it’s more a list of statistics.
Statistics
Total Number of posts : 631
–ย 245 * Piet Sinke’s Newsclippings
– 18 * TTO Newsletter
– 408 Ugly ships / paintjobs
SeaBart wrote 385 posts and Fairlane did the rest.
The posts are divided in 11 categories and 116 tags
45 of all these posts have received an update of some sort, some had even multiple updates.
Total hits : 199.588……..will we pass the 200k before the end of the year??
Total hits in 2009 : 195.638 (and rising)
Average hits per day in 2009 : 538
Busiest days : Thursday 22-10-2009, 3286 hits
Total comments : 550
Spam comments : 1401
(all stats as per 29-12-2009, 2130 GMT)
Update (30-12-2009)
Wooohooooo!!! We did it! We past the 200.000 hits!!!
A big Thanks to all visitors and all those who contributed to this site. I never thought this site would be such a success! Cheers!!
Now upto the next 200.000 hits!
Here is nr 4 in our countdown to 2010 of Top Something Lists.
Today’s subject is: Referrers, which website referred the most people to this glorious site.
top 10 Referrers
10 : http://cascobayboaters.com/
7 : http://slate.com
6 :ย http://alphainventions.com/
4 : http://tugster.wordpress.com
3 : http://fcbsweb.com (1) & http://fcbsweb.com (2)
Crystal Ocean
IMO : 9186156
Build : 1999 by Kvaerner Govan Ltd – Glasgow in Scotland, nr 319
Oh no, another ordinary supplyvessel converted to something (more…)
Top Somethings List V
As every self-respecting media-format is now publishing all kinds of top-somethings lists I felt that we had to keep up the tradition and produce a few of those to reflect the year that has been.
If you don’t like them, please feel free to ignore but otherwise: enjoy!
Starting today with nr 5 we will count down till New Years eve by posting every day another list, in order of interestingness.
We’ll kick off with the “Search Engine Terms” you used which made you find this site.
Top 10 Search Engine Terms
10 : USS Independence
9 : Norwegian Epic
8 : Ulstein X-bow
7 : Uglyships / Ugly Ships
6 : Boat
5 : Colosseum Rome
4 : Star Princess
3 : MSC Daniela
2 : Yacht A
1 : USS Freedom
Picture via http://www.knock-nevis.com
Knock Nevis
IMO : 7381154
Built : 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries’s Oppama shipyard – Oppama in Japan, nr 1016 as Seawise Giant.
The biggest tanker in the world, a true monster of the sea : (more…)
IMO : 8302894
Build : 1985 by Frederikshavn Vaerft A/S, Frederikshavn, Denmark, nrย 414 as Mercandian Continent
This monstrous looking (used to be-) vessel-to-be started life as a roro-cargoship before she was bought (more…)
Seaspan Greg
IMO: 6420484
Build: 1964 by Allied Shipbuilders, Vancouver in Canadia, nr 142 as Greg Yorke
At one time, SeaBart featured the pug-nosed Seaspan Doris, and stunned us with the stockiness of her design. (more…)