ships

Let's have some fun! I've just come across USAV Gen Frank s Besson Jr. She's a massive transport used by the USA. Anybody got any more awful names for ships?

Why have lifeboats changed their boarding positions in modern ships? Is this a simple reason to reduce the risk by lowering the high? Lower away the lifeboat at the upper deck in the titanic Lower away the boats at the lower deck in the ile de france a modern ship with a lifeboat...

Our friend Julian Atkins has mentioned several times in the recent past that in his opinion the Allan liner Parisian, which was on a westbound journey from Glasgow to Halifax & Boston, was in some way culpable in not doing more to try and assist after the Titanic collided with the iceberg...

The maker of these plans is by Mervyn Pritchard. I find it frustrating that there is no clearer image of this particular plan as far as i've searched, This has a better line plan and what i presume are the frames spacings for the line plan. I hate that it's large but the image itself is...

At the left edge of the pic -- is that a German liner? Any way to identify the battleship at center? https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68146206

I was poking around and ran across this list. The links on the page lead to some interesting info also. In case anyone is interested, link below. https://web.archive.org/web/20120315031947/http://www.icedata.ca/Pages/ShipCollisions/ShipCol_OnlineSearch.php

Can anyone please assist with the Marconi call signs as recorded by Stanley Adams of the Mesaba on a copy Marconigram. They are as follows:- MGU (possibly also an error for MGY, but I would like it double checked please). MNE MFO MOI DDN Many thanks in anticipation. Cheers, Julian

I think the most underrated/under appreciated White Star liners include The Big Four of Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and (especially) Adriatic, as well as their last two ships, the MV Britannic and (to a lesser extent) MV Georgic. But what do you guys think?

I wonder on which ships Joseph Boxhall served? And on on which one he was for the longest time?