Inverness Boat

Art by Jay Nelson

More work of Jay Nelson can be found on his website.

Little Truck cabin tug

Picture via https://www.hamnen.se/

The original article (in Swedish) is HERE (or click on the pic) translated to english via Google HERE and the for sale advert with more pics HERE.

Many thanks to Henrik L for the find & the tip!

Unknown cute US Navy tuggie

Found on the Interwebs

ENOUGH TALK – IMO 9615638

Picture by Roar Jensen via http://www.shipspotting.com

Seabubbles

Picture via the interwebs

 

Picture via the interwebs

#clever #friendly #couldlookbetter #friendlyface #interesting #innovative

 

John J. Harvey

Picture by Will van Dorp via http://www.tugster.wordpress.com

#wow #quiteaspectaculairpaintjob #razzledazzle #Ilikethat

Google “Tauba Auerbach flow separation” for more info, or click here.

 

Some more Razzle-Dazzle art ships (that I really like):

The “Snowdrop”, a ferry on the River Mersey (to start an earwurm: click here):

Picture by Barry Graham via http://www.shipspotting.com

 

And the Fingal, a ‘boatique’ hotel in Leith:

Picture by sjmackay_1972 via http://www.flickr.com

Mexefloat

Picture by colon-dash via http://www.shipspotting.com

Baltika – IMO 9649237

Picture via http://gcaptain.com

More info here on Wikipedia.

PRELUDE – IMO 9648714

Picture by lapino via http://www.shipspoting.com

A true Monster of the Seas, more info here.

An artists impression of the finished product:

Picture via the Interwebs.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Gloria Siderum

Gloria Siderum

IMO : 7006754

Build :
–Hada II (IMO 513945) : 1957 by De Groot & van Vliet – Slikkerveer in The Netherlands, nr 319
–Hermes (IMO 514914) : 1956 by by De Groot & van Vliet – Slikkerveer in The Netherlands, nr 315
Both vessels were welded together in 1969 by De Groot & van Vliet” –  Slikkerveer in the Netherlands

Right, so you thought the idea of Allseas creating a catamaran of 2 existing vessels (the Pieter Schelte) was new. Well, it wasn’t. Somewhere in the second half of the 60’s somebody had a brainstorm and got the wild idea to weld 2 coasters together, put on a heavy lift derrick and thus creating a Heavy Lift Vessel. (possibly the genesis of the Heavy Lift World).

Henry P. Lading

Picture by Marcel & Ruud Coster via http://www.shipspotting.com

Henry P. Lading

IMO : 8646484

Built : 1930 by Palmers’ SB. & Iron Co., Ltd. – Newcastle in the U.K., nr 1000 as Peter Hurll (tanker)

Converted : 1963 (bow only, rest of the vessel was scrapped) by ??? – Aarhus in Denmark

This must be the oldest still active vessel that will be featured here on Uglyships.com, the hull was basically build in 1930 as part of the tanker Peter Hurrl, as seen on the

Pacific Tracker

Pacific Tracker

IMO : 6507921

Build : 1965 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp – Pascagoula, Mississippi in the USA, no 487 as Mormacdraco

I can actually hear you thinking now: has SeaBart lost his mind in the few months before while he wasn’t posting, that ship does not look ugly at all, she is a classic. And my

Master Baiter

Master Baiter

IMO : n/a

Build : you’d think, don’t you?

Found this one on the all famous Interwebs, had to share it with you.

A typical well chosen name for a (assumed) sport fishing boat. Either chosen deliberately or not, she is in the same league as the Titan Uranus.

and this is what the Urban Dictionary has to say about it.

 

Ugly Ships Recolorficated

Art by Bowsprite

Ugly Ships Recolorficated

The mighty Bowsprite used her dazzle to recolor some ugly ships and made them look muuuuuch better! Please see more of her art HERE!

I vote for her as Prime Minister of the Department of Recolorfication of Ugly Ships!