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I’ve tried finding the explanation behind this name but no luck….who knows more and can inform us?
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Can you spell that please?
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And a new picture appeared on the Interwebs:
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I do wonder how people got up to the bridge, I assume there is some kind of stairway in the structure below it but it seems a bit narrow?
And how are the forward facing windows cleaned?
More info & pics of the ship can be found here on Sunderlandships.com.
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A regular vessel but a very unfortunate name: Shiner.
Same-ish goes for the “Woolloomoolloo” – IMO 9584499…it sounds just a bit..uhm.. weird. (Woolloomoolloo is a suburd of Sydney)
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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 (more…)
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Dunno source, via the interwebs
Extreme (Ugly) Concepts
Build : Hopefully not / Not yet
Concepts : a thing that designers design, in cooperation with marketeers to sell their designs. Usually the concept is fitted with some extraordinaire features, shapes & other (more…)
Camden
IMO : 6907004
Build : 1969 by Kawasaki Heavy Ind., Ltd. – Sakaide in Japan, nr 1103 as Bideford
I think the designers of this vessel were inspired by the Iron Sirius : They obviously also thought that a vessel of that size doesn’t need a big accommodation or bridgewings to (more…)
Dunno source, via http://nashbulk.steamcheng.net
Sinclair Petrolore
IMO : ??
Build : 1955 by National Bulk Carriers Inc., Kure Shipbuilding Division – Kure in Japan, nr 35
Via the Facebook extension of this site Mike Hogan expressed his opinion about the Sinclair Petrolore: basically saying she was the ugliest vessel ever to float on (more…)
From University of Detroit Mercy via http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us
From University of Detroit Mercy via http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us
Cedarbranch
IMO: 5066774
Build: 1951 by Marine Industries, Ltd – Sorel in Quebec, Canada, nr 197
Generally I’ve assumed the fifties to be among towards the end of the golden-ages of classic ship designs (more…)
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Mobil Arctic
IMO: 7225075
Build: 1972 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company – Chester, Pennsylvania in US of A, nr 657
Really, there shouldn’t be anything ugly about this ship. When built in 1972, she was the largest US-flagged vessel ever constructed, (more…)
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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…)
