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What Ship Type Is This?

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Posted by onyxman on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:00 AM

The Maersk Alabama, of recent pirate drama fame, is a similar ship.

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Posted by TD4438 on Monday, May 17, 2010 6:41 AM

Thanks for the info fellas.

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:29 PM

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:11 PM

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Posted by seasick on Sunday, May 16, 2010 2:58 PM

Its a container ship with its own cranes to put the containers ashore in a port without a container unloading facility. They have become fairly common. Similar designes are built in South Korea, PRC, India, Finland, Spain, Sweeden, Italy, Greece, Thailand, and a few others. Unless you see a nameon it it will be hard to identify the actual class. For those interested Jane's who publishes Jane's Fighting Ships also publishes Jane's Merchant Ships. It avalible at central library in Houston Texas (where I have seen it personally)  Find it on Amazon.com and Ebay.  It has descriptions of all types of merchant vessels.

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Posted by sharkbait on Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:27 AM

My Gawd! - they're everywhere!

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Posted by ddp59 on Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:25 AM

it already does as those are airplanes in the crates. need cranes to load them onto the ship dockside.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, May 14, 2010 5:06 PM

Manstein's revenge

Looks like the Zuiho...

just add a flight deckPropeller

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 14, 2010 5:01 PM

Looks like the Zuiho...

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Posted by bondoman on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:58 PM

It looks like a container ship that's equipped to load its own cargo in smaller ports.

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Posted by TD4438 on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:49 PM

It has a strange look to it with those massive cranes.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:39 PM

It looks like a container cargo ship. I dont know if there are classes of these ships.

 

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What Ship Type Is This?
Posted by TD4438 on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:33 PM

Although it was a bit far away,I had to try.This photo was taken in Montego Bay,Jamaica.

Does anybody know anything about the type?

Thanks

Ed

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