Titanic 100: New CGI of How Titanic Sank

Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron : SUN APR 8 at 8P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the TItanic sank and reached the ocean floor. LINK: Youtube

Stormy Sea and Ships

Music: Clint Mansell -- Lux Aeterna,(Dubstep Remix). LINK: Youtube

8 of the Craziest Houses

Cruise ship meets land? This contemporary house can be found in Orinda, Californi. It’s called the “saxophone house” but should be relabeled, “saxophone of the seas.” LINK

Biggest super tanker ever unveiled

A Danish shipping company has revealed plans for the biggest tanker ever - large enough to fit three football stadiums inside. LINK: Youtube

Space Battleship Yamato in Zen Magnets

Flickr user Eric 10d used lots of Zen Magnets rare earth magnet balls and some nails to create this sculpture of the Space Battleship Yamato: Link, Via: Neatorama

F-14 breaking the sound barrier

it's real qucik. Listen to the people react on the other side of the ship who can see it coming. Priceless. LINK: Youtube

Lego Battleship Yamato Is Biggest Lego Ship Ever

Like its real counterpart, this Battleship Yamato is the biggest Lego ship ever constructed. At 22 feet long, it took 6 years and 4 months to complete by one of our Lego contest winners. [Updated]

The Yamato—along with her sister ship Musashi—was the largest battleship ever constructed: 862 feet and 10 inches long and 121 feet long at its widest point. Made by Jumpei Mitsui, the Lego version was constructed at minifig scale (1/40), which is an amazing task that resulted in these specs: Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds.

• 22 feet long.
• 3 feet wide.
• 330 pounds.
• More than 200,000 Lego pieces.

LINK, LINK 2, LINK: Gizmodo, Via: Youtube

Man Builds Matchstick Models of Every Ship in the Royal Navy Since 1945

Phillip Warren’s hobby for the past 62 years has been building models of warships out of matchsticks. So far, he’s used 650,000 matches to build 400 ship models.


The master modeller, from Brandford, Dorset, has created every ship built in the Royal Navy since 1945, as well as 60 other ships from the US navy and other impressive floating fortresses from 18 other nations. One of the largest ships in his collection is the famous USS Nimitz, the largest aircraft carrier in the world.

Throghout his career as a ship model builder, Phillip Waren created over 400 individual ships, as well as 1,200 airplane models that make his aircraft carriers look more real. The average ship in his collection is made using around 1,500 matchsticks and takes about a month to complete, but for his larger creations he used over 5,000 matchsticks and 200 wooden boxes. These took him about a year to complete. All in all, Phillip Waren used around 650,000 matchsticks, to create his entire fleet.

Article Link and Gallery Link, Via: Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: ModelWarships.com, Via: Neatorama

Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage

Pretty scary actually, pity the poor lady that face plants against the column in the center of the video. Sorry there is no audio, it was removed. LINK: Youtube

Building the Ship's Brain

Man-Made: World's Largest Cruise Ship : THU JUN 10 10P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com...

Filled with cables and wires that send messages to different machinery around the craft, the bridge acts as the ship's brain. LINK: Youtube

Different types of a sailing ships

Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel.

Link - Via: timeidol, Via: Neatorama

Shiny Toy Guns - Rocketship

Shiny Toy Guns - Rocketship from Ultra Records. LINK: Youtube

The History of The Battleship Potemkin

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This silent video made in 1925 was in response to the uprising on the Russian Prince Ship Potemkin. These sailors where brutalized at the hands of the ships officers. The meat that the had to eat routinely had maggots in it. In response to the intense brutality, the men forged a mutiny.


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Laser cut model rocket ship

The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is a 40 foot retro-future rocket ship model created by Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor, David Shulman. For those unable to climb aboard in person, Almost Scientific has created a stately and elegant scale model. It's laser cut from 1/8" ply wood, 13" tall, and ships flat in a envelope! Yours for $100 in the Boing Boing Bazaar at the Makers Market.

Raygun Gothic Rocketship Wooden Model. Via: Boingboing

Underwater Atomic Explosion Swamps Ship

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A (presumably) abandoned ship near a US nuclear test is swamped by the resulting massive wave. The video is courtesy of Atomic Central, a site filled with pictures, videos, and information about nuclear weapons.

Via: Urlesque | Atomic Central | Via: Neatorama

The Oldest Naval Vessel in Active Service

The US Navy has the frigate Constitution, launched in 1797. The British Royal Navy has the Victory, which dates even further back — to 1765. But both of these vessels are museum ships, rather than truly active vessels.

The oldest naval vessel in active service is the VMF Kommuna, a Russian Navy salvage ship built in 1915. James Dunnigan writes for Strategy Page:

This 2,500 ton catamaran was built in the Netherlands and entered service in 1915. Kommuna began service in the Czar’s navy, spent most of its career in the Soviet (communist) Navy, and now serves in the fleet of a democratic Russia. Originally designed to recover submarines that had sunk in shallow coastal waters, Kommuna remains in service to handle smaller submersibles, does it well and has been maintained over the decades to the point where it cheaper to keep the old girl operational, than to try and design and build a replacement.

Link, Via: Hell in a Handbasket | More Pictures | Image: Warfare.ru, Via: Neatorama

Virgin Galactic Unveils World's First Commercial Passenger Spaceship

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the world's first ever commercial passenger spaceship. The sleek black-and-white vessel represents a gamble with a sky-high price tag to create a commercial space and tourism industry.

The company hopes the winged, minivan-sized SpaceShipTwo, will rocket space tourists into zero gravity within just two or three years. LINK

First Look Inside World's Largest Cruise Ship

Royal Caribbean has given the Associated Press an inside look at the world's largest cruise ship, "Oasis of the Seas." The ship features 16 decks and cost $1.5 billion. (Nov. 20). LINK: Youtube

Yarr! Black Pearl for Sale!

A group of men wanted to build a copy of the famous "Black Pearl", not only as it used to look but also with the same materials and in the same place where this famous ship was built 338 years ago! The wood used included the Santa Maria wood for the frame and the Pine for the sheathing. The Black Pearl was constructed according to a primitive drawing by one of the sea robbers, who was sailing this ship. A lot of time was spent drawing and designing the ship, constructing and paying attention to all the details to preserve the original look of the vessel.

The Black Pearl is located in Honduras. LINK, Via: awesomemustache, Via: Neatorama

Millennium Falcon Papercraft

Here is an incredible papercraft recreation of Han Solo’s famous ship. The detail is extraordinary and true to the movies. This is a great project for inmates with a science fiction passion or any young man who has no desire to kiss girls in his teen years. If you’ve got the time, put it together and we’ll show it off proudly.

Make your own Millennium Falcon with a printable download from VectorVault. Link, VIA: Neatorama