#Shipposting

[whitestarlineco]

yeah I like women

we are talking about boats right?

[charonsferry]

do you see what im getting at here...

shipgirl yuri with problematic tonnage gap

[the-lewd-bot]

thinking about two space ship girlfriends that are both on long slow elliptical orbits around a star. once every hundred years or so the orbits line up and they spend a few years together, exchanging messages and flirting, before the orbits desync

neither has enough fuel to adjust course to spend more time together

[major-knighton]

It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.

[rayenigma]

We were watching the SSUS being towed from her pier in Philadelphia on stream earlier, and my friend pointed out something that i absolutely CANNOT stop thinking about.

The parrarel here... it's insane. The sad and solemn scene of a once beautiful ship, built during an era which has now long passed, being towed to her final final destination... Welcome back The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner

[iamthemaestro]

I keep trying to get my fucking crewmates to mutiny but every time we get together to plan it they put aside their differences for the greater good and realize we’re all on the same side after all and morale improves

[grimm-the-tiger]

The more I learn about them, the more I become convinced that the invention of ro-ros was a mistake.

[ganymedian]

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

You know, being interested in Great Lakes shipping is a gateway into anti-capitalist sentiments.

I swear every other shipwreck was caused by a company putting profits above everything from ship maintenance to vital repairs to establishing shipping lanes to using suitable materials to build ships out of to sailing during storms.

Then you have wrecks like the Carl D where the two survivors testified that the ship split in two, but the company hired someone to survey the wreck in secrecy with no impartial witnesses and would you look at that? The ship is only in one piece and therefore the company can say the sinking was an "act of God" and not be held responsible for the sinking, effectively gaslighting the two survivors who, again, saw the ship split in two while they were on it. And then nearly 40 years later, conclusive evidence showed that the wreck was in two pieces.

Like it's difficult to be interested in this topic without developing some kind of anti-capitalist stance.

[rmsfranconia]

Shout out to this guy who makes like, some of the greatest ship colorizations I’ve ever seen

Like, these are genuinely gorgeous

He’s even done some of the Beatles too

(two of my favorite things colliding together)

The guys name is Oceanic Star Line Colorization btw

[charonsferry]

ocean liner group chat

[ivx2810]

Hi I'm not dead. Have humanised Titanic on her uhh... anniversary? Of nothing bad happening of course

[whitestarlineco]

Personally, big fan of boats

[rayenigma]

good day for boat fans on this blog, haven't used blockbench in a while so i decided to have a quick go at making a simple itty bitty model of andrea doria !!! my beloved. she is small enough to fit inside your pocket

[iamthemaestro]

I know I’ve been consuming too much Boat Media because when I woke up from my stress dream last night all I could think about was The Supply Ship

[thebaffledcaptain]

Sometimes I fool myself into thinking I’m fairly normal about Boat Stuff and then I remember I have a tag just for stunsails.