Liaoning, China's First Aricraft Carrier enters Service

 Chinese President Hu Jintao, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), endorses  and commission the start if the service of Liaoning at  a naval base in Dalian

Captain, Senior Admiral Zhang Zheng

In 1918, HMS Argus became the world's first carrier capable of launching and landing naval aircraft. After almost 100 years, China, as the world 2^nd largest economy eventually has its own

 aircraft carrier. After the US, the U.K. France, Italy, Spain, Russia, India Thailand and Brazil, this Chinese “Liaoning” would be a landmark in China’s Modernization of military arm forces and national defense. The Carrier will escort China’s implementation of its peaceful development strategy and it would pose no threat to other countries. “Liaoning” was officially entered the service on 25 Sep Tuesday. 

Aircraft carriers are generally the largest ships operated by navies. A total of 22 aircraft carriers in active service are maintained by ten navies. Australia, Brazil, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and the People's Republic of China also operate vessels capable of carrying and operating multiple helicopters.
HK Snob

USS New York build with 24 tons of scrap steel from WTC

USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center  ..

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists.  It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.. 

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When  it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003,  'those big rough steelworkers treated it with  total reverence,' recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. 'It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.' 

Good for learning a lesson… in fact, to the truth and faith of my belief US is the one who stirs up every countries for his financial and political benefit…
Who kills Iraq Saddam Hussein?

Who kills Kadafi?

Who bombed China Embassy at Yogoslavia!?

Who Created Ladin? And who killed Ladin later 911 incidents after 10 years.

That ship is made for heroism, but if there is no new war, why we need a new warship?

HK Snob

Build Your Own Titanic

If you are a Titanic enthusiast and you enjoy making things with your hands, measuring 135cm/.53 in. Scale 1:200
You should not miss this too, Available in Page One, Ocean Centre, I bought the last two yesterday but I believe new goods will come soon
HK Snob

100 Years after the RMS Titanic Sank in North Atlantic Ocean

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City.
The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,223 people. This is 100 years after the tragic accident and lets pray for the victims and Keep remembering how happy we are as we are safe from accident on road, air and sea.

Since the invention of radio at the end of the 19th century, ships at sea have relied on Morse code, invented by Samuel Morse and first used in 1844, for distress and safety telecommunications. The need for ship and coast radio stations to have and use radiotelegraph equipment, and to listen to a common radio frequency for Morse encoded distress calls, was recognized after the sinking of the liner RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912. The U.S. Congress enacted legislation soon after, requiring U.S. ships to use Morse code radiotelegraph equipment for distress calls. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), now a United Nations agency, followed suit for ships of all nations. Morse encoded distress calling has saved thousands of lives since its inception almost a century ago, but its use requires skilled radio certified operators spending many hours listening to the radio distress frequency. Its range on the medium frequency (MF) distress band (500 kHz) is limited, and the amount of traffic Morse signals can carry is also limited.

Wireless and the safety of life at sea
News of the Titanic disaster shocked the world. The fact that over 700 people were saved because of wireless telegraphy made people realized that wireless was not just for the sending and receiving of personal messages; it was and would continue to be an essential contribution to the safety of life at sea.

Arrangements had already been made for the third Wireless Telegraphy Convention to take place in London at the end of 1912. This conference established internationally agreed regulations which were expanded by subsequent conventions. These included:

-the reinforcement of SOS as the distress signal

-The 500kc/s frequency was made a compulsory fitting for all ships carrying wireless

-the establishment of formal working hours, example 2 shifts of each 4 hours compulsary to be carried out by R/O (radio Officer on board)

-the formalization of the certification of Wireless Operators (Radio Officer)

-the creation of Silence Periods when all ships were required to cease operating and listen for distress signals on 500kc/s from 15-18 minutes and 45-48 minutes of every hours not to allow to transmit telegraph , reserved for SOS message sending and R/O must monitor and Record on the Radio logs for any SOS signal received. And has to report to Captain in case


-the requirement that at least one lifeboat should carry emergency wireless equipment

-the requirement that all ships should have an emergency transmitter and receiver powered by batteries.

Due to the advance of telecommunication technology and satellite communicator, in 2001, the world has dropped the use of Morse Code in the Sea Going Vessel, 100 years after Marconi made it to b used for ship in 1901.

PS
This is the radio log listed of the Titanic and Carpathia Morse communication:
At about 1.45 am Captain Smith reappeared at the Wireless Room and told the two wireless operators that the ship was sinking and that they should take to the boats. Jack Phillips simply replaced his headphones on his ears and recommenced work, Harold Bride stood by him watching what was being sent and stood ready to take received messages to the wheelhouse.

The last clear message sent by Jack Phillips was to Harold Cottam on the Carpathia, it was more a personal message than an official one. It read “come as quickly as possible, old man, the engine-room is filling up to the boilers”.

The power feeding the spark transmitter was fading fast and signals from the Titanic were blurred and unreadable. At 02.17 Jack Phillips commenced sending his last call. All that was received of it was CQ… and then silence.

At 0217 15 April , let’s pray for the death and the associated causalities caused by this Accident…

HK Snob

PS Picture of RMS Titanic started her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912.

The Navy’s Carbon Fiber Composite Stealth Warship DDG 1000 Zumwalt

DDG-1000 Zumwalt, the US next-gen Destroyer, which has been funded to build at Bath Iron Works in Maine and at Northrop Grumman’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Expensive, enormous and hi tech laden warship is viewed as an important part of US’s security strategy in the Asia-Pacific.

This destroyer was design in large scale use of advance carbon fibre composites, it distinguishes that US navy has been developing new advance warship which was not been considered in the past 30 years.

The Zumwalt class had its begining in 2001, when the Navy announced the program would move forward after the DD 21 project. The goal is to release 32 new multi-mission destroyers by 2012. The Navy renamed it DDG-1000 and shrank it to three ships in 2008, although the DD plan originally called for 8 to 12 “advanced technology surface

The challenge for the Navy is to meet fire-retardant/fire containment requirements, while reducing radar signature and weight, and yet control cost during construction of four upper decks of the destroyer’s deck house superstructure.

Zumwalt has a “tumblehome” hull shape. Which is a design in which the hull slopes inward from above the waterline. Such a shape drastically reduces the ship’s radar cross section. The deck house is “fully EMC shielded with reduced infrared and radar signatures.” The all-composite deck house superstructure has helped the Navy fulfill its goals, as well as reduce top heavy weight and total ship weight.

HK Snob

The Sinking of SS Costa Concordia

Captain and first officer arrested as up to 70 cruise passengers missing and three dead as survivors tell of 'chaotic evacuation 'Passengers tell of 'chaos' as crew members said 'go back to your cabins'.
Survivors leapt for their lives into the icy sea as the liner rolled onto its side
Captain of the ship in custody with another crew member
Boat was 'four miles off course' when it hit rocks.
Ship Facts
Length: 290 .00 m
Beam: 36.00 m
Draft: 8.00 m
GrossTonnage :114,500 m.t.
Passengers: 3,700
Crew: 1,100
Decks: 17
Engine: Wartsila, 12-cylinder
Power: 12,000 kW
Speed: 23.0 kn
Built: 2006
Shipyard: Fincantieri Yards
Price: 600 millions USD
Bodies of two French passengers and a Peruvian crewman recovered.
One victim, 65, died from heart attack following shock of cold water
Liner had listed so badly 'lifeboats had difficulty being launched'.
37 Britons on board but none believed to have died or been injured.
Moral of the accident is
The technology is very advance, than those time in early 1900 Titanic, the ship is now equipped with Radar, Loran C that can automatically locate the ship position within 10 metres area, Satellite that can fix the course and align when there is a drift automatically
Why there still can off course for 4 miles which anything n would happen on a large ship like this
This is pure human Ignorance and Discipline .
I believe it its time to review for the revival of Sparkie,, and to offer a tighten control on the discipline on bridge, also had to go through proper training to the officer, crews and passenger regular or this kind of accident would happen again tomorrow.
I have been working n the sea, I have seen a lot of crazy things.

HK Snob

Is that a Garden?!

No, this is the messanine floor of the world largest cruise ship.
Oasis of the Seas is an Oasis-class cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International. The first of her class, she was joined by her sister ship Allure of the Seas in December 2010. Both vessels cruise the Caribbean from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She set a new record of carrying over 6,000 passengers.
The ship surpasses the Freedom-class cruise ships (also owned by Royal Caribbean) as the largest cruise ship in the world.
Some interesting data
Mass of the vessel is 100,000 tons
The ship's power comes from six marine diesel engines, three Wärtsilä 16-cylinder common rail diesels producing 18,860 kilowatts (25,290 hp) each (consuming 1,377 gallons of fuel per hour of operation per engine), and three similar 12-cylinder engines each producing 13,860 kilowatts (18,590 hp), (consuming 1,033 gallons of fuel per hour of operation per engine).

The total output of these prime movers, some 97,020 kilowatts (130,110 hp), is converted to electricity, used in hotel power for operation of the lights, elevators, electronics, galleys, water treatment plant, and all of the other systems used on the operation of the vessel, as well as propulsion.

Propulsion is provided by three 20,000-kilowatt (26,800 hp) "Azipods", ABB's brand of azimuth thrusters. These pods, suspended under the stern, contain electric motors driving 20-foot (6 m) propellers. Because they are rotatable, no rudders are needed to steer the ship. Docking is assisted by four 5,500-kilowatt (7,380 hp) bow thrusters in tunnels.

HK Snob

The Biggest Warship of China and the Philippines

The Philippine Navy’s largest warship was former US Coast Guard cutter; bought second hand from the United States with USD$13.18M, will sail into the West Philippine Sea crossing over from the Pacific in the next couple of weeks, while China's first aircraft carrier is expected to go on sea trials by the end of September. Will they meet somewhere in the middle of the Seas, yes…the West Philippines Sea issue will likely be one of the topics during the state visit of Philippines president Aquino to China next Week. From what I got the official said the Philippines and China had “agree to disagree” on the West Philippines seas issue and would not allow this affect the bilateral relations.
Would one of the 23 Aug 2010 Tour bus issue be one of the other topics!?
Hong Kong Government still issues Black Outbound Travel Alert for Travelling in the Philippines Since 23 Aug 2010.
In the event of a conflict over the Spratlys, where both the Philippines and China have claims, both ships may see action. The Philippine ship is a former US Coast Guard cutter.
The comparison between the two, as well as between the military forces of each country, is of course lopsided, hence the need for the Philippines to be allied with another superpower, the United States.
President of Philippines and he would like to buy more Pilot training aircrafts, Submarine, Radar defective systems… That show a good signs that Philippine had successfully collected some of the Lost Money in the old days from Corruption going into this Military Defense Project., a nice encouragement to ensure political developing for stability, a signal for foreign investor for more aggressive plan to move into Philippines, such as Japan, which selected Philippines is the next best alternative location for their foreign investment.
Hope to see more economic development in the Country of Philippines and looking forward from more fruitful economic joint venture between China and Philippines from the two big guys meeting next week in China.

Manila Snob

Blue Devil

Blue Devil was one of my favourite ships when I was young, it was big and fast, I modified it adding 5 power packs and an huge motor, and it was steaming beautifully when I launched it in Moors and Victoria park in the 60’s.
Story of Melvin II
During the Pacific campaign in World War II, the USS Melvin 680 compiled an impressive battle record. Over a period of two years, this 2100 ton destroyer participated in 11 major sea battles. MELVIN received 10 battle stars for World War II service.
The heroic actions by the Melvin prompted the Commander of the fleet to give it the name of Blue Devil.
CLASS - FLETCHER As Built.
Displacement 2924 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 5"(oa) x 39' 7" x 13' 9" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 10 x 40mm, 7 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 38 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 15 Knots, Crew 273.
Building Data
Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ. July 6 1943.
Launched October 17 1943 and commissioned November 24 1943.
Decommissioned May 31 1946 and re-commissioned February 2 6 1951.
Decommissioned January 13 1954.
Stricken December 1 1974.
Sold August 14 1975 to Trebor Marine Corp., Camden, NJ at $175,999 for scrap.

HK Snob

Privillege P12S

This is most probabloy the desired floating pleasure Cataramans when I go home to meet my wife In Thailand. Seriously Considering it, once after I got a house in Bangkok, Udornthani, Phuket...
Beam 24 feet

weight 8 tons

2 yanmar 28 hp 2003 2000 hours

1 main sail 2006

1 genoa 1998

1 spinnaker 2006

4 double cabins

2 toilets

auto pilot electronicssolar panels

Vessel Type:
catamaran
Builder: Privilege
Model: P12s
Designer: lefevre
Year: 1990
Length Overall:4O'
Beam:24'
Draft: 4'
Air Draft: 6'
Engine(s): 2 x Diesel
Hull Material:Glass Fibre
Displacement:8 metric tons
Price:
EUR 120,000

HKD 1,35M Hong Kong Dollar Equivalent
Location: Phuket ThailandPhuket Snob