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Topic: Russian Ships

WhiteStar
First Class Passenger
Member # 2740

posted 09-17-2010 03:43 PM

Wasn't quite sure where to post this but some cool pics.

web page

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buddhaJoe
First Class Passenger
Member # 4356

posted 09-17-2010 04:06 PM

well i doubted

next to nothing to do with cruiseships on cruistalk

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AKer builder
First Class Passenger
Member # 6412

posted 09-17-2010 04:17 PM

Hey it's great site a lot of interesting pictures here one more link - Would you dive on this submarine?
web page

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 09-17-2010 07:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by AKer builder:
Hey it's great site a lot of interesting pictures here one more link - Would you dive on this submarine?
web page

No not on this one because she's out of service and beeing dismanteled.

Greetings Ben.

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WhiteStar
First Class Passenger
Member # 2740

posted 09-17-2010 08:53 PM

Sorry Buddahjoe I said nothing about cruise ships. Maybee I should have posted under Idle Chatter or Ferry Travel. Lighten up dude. Thought this was a good looking hospital ship. I saw many a tanker and cargo ship the three times I was in Russia, Thought these might be of intrest.
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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 09-18-2010 01:18 AM

Brilliant! In my 12 years of Navy service I had plenty of encounters with Soviet warships and their famous 'fishing boats' (aka reconnaissance and spy ships) as well as Bear and Foxtrot aircraft, especially when on deployment in the western Pacific. When in a carrier group formation we would always send up 'escort' fighters to make sure they didn't get too close! I was also the ships photographer and have tons of pictures of all sorts of close encounters. Thanks for posting these!

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haco
First Class Passenger
Member # 11810

posted 09-18-2010 02:30 PM

For Russian Cruise ships please visit http://www.nedcruise.info/fleetlist%20R.htm
Rgds
Haco

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 09-19-2010 07:22 AM

Great post WhiteStar! I have always been fascinated by Russian ships.

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joe at travelpage
Administrator
Member # 622

posted 09-19-2010 10:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by rd77:
Great post WhiteStar! I have always been fascinated by Russian ships.

A while back, CruiseTalker Patrick Wetter put together a nice
History of Soviet Vessels.

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WhiteStar
First Class Passenger
Member # 2740

posted 09-19-2010 12:29 PM

Thanks Joe!

Reed

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Patrick
First Class Passenger
Member # 364

posted 10-04-2010 07:19 AM

Hi there,

it's been a long time already when I put together this history. I should start to work on an update :-)

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Lubber
First Class Passenger
Member # 13710

posted 11-10-2010 08:16 AM

I always thought the Meteor hydrofoils were fascinating.

Here in the States, we dabbled in hydrofoil tech on Pegasus-class Navy ships from the Cold War, the butt-ugly Boeing Jetfoil, and personal sailing cats. The French Hydroptére is an amazing engineering feat.

The Soviets, on the other hand, have already made hydrofoil tech commercially viable for scheduled fast ferry service 50 years ago-- so viable, in fact, that old Meteors are in demand and in service all around the Eastern Hemisphere!

Hullborne:

Foilborne, with a 32-knot service speed:

If transat air travel devolves to the point where the express greyhound ocean liner makes a comeback, the new liners will probably resemble a scaled-up Meteor (or its coastal seagoing cousin the Kometa) much more than it would the QM2.

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oslo dutch
First Class Passenger
Member # 4669

posted 11-10-2010 09:22 AM

:-) I travelled on one of those between Vienna and Budapest over the Danube river in 2003. That was a very cool trip!

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 11-12-2010 06:54 PM

About 20 years ago we had 2 of those Boeing Jetfoils in Belgium, indeed they looked ugly and were too expensive to run.

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Atlcruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4586

posted 11-12-2010 07:38 PM

Well I enjoyed looking at all of the photos so I thank you for starting this thread.

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