XJ Photo-Op Riding Challenge: Military Relics

X2!

 

Thought the last line of the article was an eye opener....after all the tax payer money spent on this ship..

 

I'm assuming they'll do it for one cent because of the massive amount of scrap metal they will get out of it.

Quite a sight though, massive isn't even a big enough word to describe those ships.

 

Speaking of which: I heard on the radio this morning that one of the Maersk container ships had just broken a record, embarking loaded with over 17,000 containers. It can do 18,200 containers.

SEVENTEEN THOUSAND. Plus. On one ship.

A container is basically the size of a semi-trailer, you see them all the time.

My question is: how the heck do you load/unload SEVENTEEN THOUSAND shipping containers in a timely enough manner to make it practical?

The mind boggles.

I still love aircraft carriers though.

 

That must be the one owned and operated by Canada Post!!! ;-) ;-)

 

And they're already gearing up for the next-gen of super-freighters, dredging ports and cutting new canals (Panama will be widened, but even it won't accommodate the next group; China plans to build a new canal in Nicaragua that will allow passage of the "Chinamax" cargo ships and "Valemax" bulk commodity carriers).

Cargo ships are classified by how many Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (semi-trailers) capacity they have, or TEU's. Not so long ago, the standard was the Suezmax (guess what canal it's named for) and was around 8500 TEU's, ships that won't fit thru the Suez Canal have to go around the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa) and those are called Capemax vessels.

Panamax ships can carry only about 4400 TEU's; they're the scrawny little cousins in the big-ship world.

The Maersk E-Class ships can handle 18,000 TEU's, and they have quite a few of those size ships.


BTW, the cost for one of the Panamax carriers to pass thru the Panama canal (fully loaded) is around $350,000 for each transit; large cruise ships get off for a lesser sum, a paltry $200K or so. And since there are sometimes significant delays (3-7 days) in the "queue" for ships waiting to transit, there is also a "skip ahead to the front of the line" queue-skipping fee (for those in a big hurry and deep pockets) which can run $200K or so for each passage.

 

Several months ago another aircraft carrier was scrapped for ONE CENT - -
A Penny,

There's millions of dollars of steel there, we live in a free democracy/capitalistic economy.
What is wrong with this picture ??

Are these ships ending up in India ??

 

If anyone's not familiar with India's ship scrapping industry just Google "Alang". It's actually an environmental disaster.

 

John how are you man. I been wondering where you went. Did you close up shop here in Houston?

 

I will get a shot of the USS Midway ( CV-41 ) here in San Diego this weekend.....it is now a museum down on the waterfront .........She served in Vietnam & Desert Storm

 

I like to see some one pose with the "Mighty Mo"

 

Ask the port of Long Beach.

I could have sworn I saw a Modern Marvels episode on that, but I'm not entirely certain. Looking through the episode list, it might have been the one labeled "Super Ships".

I did find this, though:

Shipping Cranes

That would be the Enterprise.

Please do. Your bike is in much better shape than mine. Question is, how are you going to get the bike and the entire ship in frame?

Next thing you need to do is actually go through the Midway. If you want to see everything, including the "island" tour, plan on at least four hours. Go a few blocks down the street to the Maritime Museum for an added bonus -- two submarines, and two boats that have been paid visits by Mike Rowe -- the steamer yacht Medea and the Star of India.

 

Razz,

Yep, packed and moved everything, looks like I'm here to stay. No more Houston Summers but apparently (so the locals say) no more year round riding. I will try my best though, I can handle a pretty cool day as long as there's no ice or snow.

 

a pair from the local airport
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Pics of the day from San Diego's waterfront:

Star of India



H.M.S. Surprise - from the Russell Crowe movie: Master & Commander - an added bonus in background: A Russian WW II Sub







Your lucky day - the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) docked at North Island Air Station on Coronado Island across the bay from San Diego



USS Midway (CVN-41)










Last night's sunset on the Pacific: almost makes you want to take a ride on your scooter to the West Coast

 

Watch your head when you go in that Russian sub.

 

I know...I have been in it on a prior visit.....I believe they were all midgets...

 

By the way your bike looks great Five!

 

Hey, Five. The sunsets on Lake Erie are awesome, too. If I wasn't so technologically handicapped (just plain stupid), I'd post pics. Hell, I can't even text.

 

This monster came rolling in to my store today.