#freighters

[detroitlib]

View of the freighter "Sonoma" carrying Dodge and Plymouth cars to Buffalo, New York. Label on back: "Down to the sea in ships. These are days when nearly every available local transportation method has Detroit-made automobiles for cargoes. While hundreds of men crowd the factory drive-away yards, fleets of specially constructed tracks leave for far-off dealer points. Railroad cars, each holding four cars, are strung into miles of trains, and lake vessels, crowded to the decks with cars and trucks, cleave the waters. These are inspiring sights duplicated nowhere in all the world. The picture above shows the good ship Sonoma of the Nicholson Universal Line on its way to Buffalo, carrying Dodge and Plymouth cars to waiting dealers." Stamped on back: "June 23, 1936."

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

[thatpicitook]

Old and new technology together is always fun, but it can be deceiving too. In this case, the John D. Leitch (the freighter) is actually older than the Playfair (the sailing ship).

To be fair, you can also tell that the Playfair isn't fully "old school" because its moving without the use of its sails.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"MODERN BULK CARRIER IDENTICAL IN APPEARANCE TO THE VESSEL WRECKED," Toronto Star. November 11, 1913. Page 1. ---- SHIPWRECKED MEN LASHED IN RIGGING. DECKS ARE AWASH ---- Crew of 28 of Unknown Vessel Stranded on the Dread Manitou Island. ---- LIFE SAVERS VAINLY TRY TO REACH SHIP ---- Three-Hours Battle With the Heavy Seas Ends in Failure

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STORM TAKES TOLL FROM GREAT LAKES ---- Many Lives Lost, and Vessels Strewn Along the Shores

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FREIGHTER'S BACK MAY HAVE BEEN BROKEN IN STORM ---- If Collision Theory Is Unfounded This May Explain It ---- VESSELS RARELY TURN TURTLE ---- Captain Would Keep Her Out of Trough of the Sea

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SIX LIVES ARE LOST WHEN U. S. LIGHTSHIP FOUNDERS ---- Part of Her Wreckage Floated Into Buffalo Harbor To-day - She Was a New Steel Boat - 70-Mile Gale Was the Cause. ---- DRIVEN FROM HER ANCHORAGE DURING NIGHT

[know-news-is-good-news]

We don't need Putin's permission to do these things ! !

The freighters are being equipped the exorcist multiple warhead missiles are will take out any ships Vlad may have left ! !

SO tell him to STFU ! !

[olegstoba]

[paintbrusher]

[nudeartpluspoetry]

Freight Ships

Tacoma, Washington, USA

Anchored, freighters look like farm towns burning necessary lights on dark fields.

Their crews, like miners, are unapparent.

We know these ships to be steel buckets, as basic as water, profit, gravity, and greed.

We do not know why we stare at them

like art or why they  stare back with the wise vacancy of cats.

hans ostrom

© 2 days ago    

[phonemantra-blog]

Droneliner DL350 is capable of transporting up to 350 tons of cargo over a distance of up to 12 thousand kilometers British company Droneliner is creating advanced unmanned transport aircraft. They are already initially developed taking into account the use of environmentally friendly aviation fuel SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), and in the future a transition to hydrogen is possible. [caption id="attachment_64545" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Airbus A330-200F and Boeing 747-400F[/caption] The company is developing two models: a smaller one – DL200 and a larger one – DL350. These drones will significantly outperform current manned aircraft. For example, if the Airbus A330-200F is capable of transporting cargo weighing 65 tons over a distance of up to 7,400, and the Boeing 747-400F can transport 113 tons over a distance of 7,170 kilometers, then even the “small” DL200 can transport 160-200 tons over a distance of 12 thousand. km. And the DL350 will be able to transport 300-350 tons over the same distance! The Droneliner DL200 will be equipped with one turbofan motor and the Droneliner DL350 – with two. Airbus A330-200F and Boeing 747-400F are the last century. [caption id="attachment_64546" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Airbus A330-200F and Boeing 747-400F[/caption] The creators say that the aircraft is suitable for both civil and military use. They also support in-flight refueling.

[pesoprima]

IF YOU'RE TIRED OF HOUSE CATS YOU SHOULD PET A WILD LION!

[msbarrows]

My personal fleet of starships and freighter on my current playthrough. This is a continuation of my Singularity expedition save, which started me off in the blue solar ship shown. It has white sails (the oddly shaped geometric ones) and I decided I liked it enough to keep and level up its class over time. It's been my main ride until recently, but that'll likely change now that I have multiple good options.

Since my ship was blue and white, I decided to use that as the colours for my player character as well, with red as an accent colour:

The next ship I got was my freighter, which I was lucky enough to come across already in a blue and white colour scheme, in a model of freighter I'm particularly fond of *Imperial March begins playing*. I should buy red paint once I have the nanites to spare so it'll better match my character's colours. I'm still working on building my freighter base; at some point there will probably be pictures.

The interceptor is the second starship I got myself, while puttering around salvaging interceptors for cash (they're not as good for nanites as salvaging regular starship wrecks, but they're all double-figured millions of spendable cash in value, so well worth the bit of extra work to locate when you want to build up your wallet quickly). Mostly blue and black with just a small amount of green, and of course red lights.

Next up was finally finding a starship with a very small footprint to use as my summonable construction material storage (very useful when doing base building). I was originally thinking of getting one of the smaller models of shuttle or fighter in blue and/or white also, but then this little yellow exotic crossed my path and, well, high viz colours are pretty standard in construction machinery, aren't they?

And finally yesterday I completed the Starbirth quest line, and killed waaaaaaay too many hours spawning fallen hosts to go check out. As in my just-before-getting-in-starship save was made at 17:39 local time and it was after 2am before I gave in and decided the current ship was good enough (liked the shape, not a particular fan of the colours).

I'm still kicking myself that I didn't keep this much earlier spawn, whose colours I liked a lot more (black or possibly very dark blue, and green, on a cream base); I was just iffy on the weird feet placement:

[dyingbuck]

A FREIGHTER SHIP LOST IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAGING SEA

[thatpicitook]

One of the things I find interesting with photography is that sometimes I wonder if I'll forget the context of my own photos. In this case, I have to remember that these pictures show a ship leaving rather than arriving in the harbour.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Traffic Again Moves Through Canal at Soo," St. Catharines Standard. October 9, 1941. Page 1. --- THE approach to one of the two main approaches to St. Mary's River has been cleared and shipments of ore vital to defence were resumed today. Freighters had been tied up for nearly 48 hours when the railroad bridge collapsed at Sault Ste. Marie. The span is shown here as it blocked the canal. The other main lock is still inaccessible, but engineers hoped to clear it by late today.

[worldphotography-world]

K-Storm cargo ship leaving harbor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (USA)

© Cal Millar 2023

[olegstoba]

[paintbrusher]