World's NAVY SHIPS

[pakarang]

Thanks .... would be really cool if there was some way to see the current highest bid on both Oksoy and Glomma.

I think they, or just one of them, would look really great painted blue, renamed Norway II and serving as CaptainsVoyage head quarters.

Any millionaires (or ordinary people) out there (D. Trump, I know you come here to read sometimes when you bored... ) who would like to buy me the ultimate gift?

[ehp]

. but it would be nice as head office and apartment for me I guess.

Oh my!! If you could find a place to "park her" (girlie speak) would that not be the COOLEST house/office???

[pakarang]

Oh my!! If you could find a place to "park her" (girlie speak) would that not be the COOLEST house/office???

That is already taken care off: I do have a parking spot for it already.

[ehp]

Hmmmm--ok, how do we do this???? Could you turn it into a time-share for CV officers???

[Ralf__]

You could rent it or parts of it as vacation loft or CV member hostel. In the Glomma offer they stated it has 40 beds. If i was you i would concentrate on Glomma, because they removed all bridge equipment out of Oksoy. But we should have a room where we can play "ship simulator". Also Oksoy has a hole in the bottom which is not properly repaired...
If you have a place where you don't have to pay a berth fee, i think an offer of 100 NOK would not be bad?!

[pakarang]

I have the space... own sea front... with a dock which could be used... with no docking fees as long as it's for my habitat and yes, even hostel....

I can offer sea eagle safaris and cod fishing trips, and some trips to islands in the area.

[pakarang]

Norwegian Coast Guard W333 "Njord" came in to Rørvik on March 5th 2009 for a short stop:



PS: A couple of nice images of Njord here: http://www.moldtustranda.com/eiksundsambandsopning.html

[pakarang]

Coast Guard vessel Senja spent some time drifting around my island a few days ago, no idea what they were up to:

W 321 Coat Guard Vessel Senja passed by Rørvik a few days ago again, southbound (actually on February 28th 2009):

[pakarang]

This Russian aircraft-carrier boat had a strange story. When it was being built it was called “Riga” - the name of Latvian capital city, but just after the construction was over and 20 minutes later the ceremony of the ship’s launching started they got a call from Moscow demanding to change the name to “VARYAG”, probably just because at that time Latvia demanded independence, so Russian government understood that if they leave the old name, in just a few months one of their top-ships would carry the name of the capital of the another state. So they called and changed the name same day the boat was launched. That was a bad sign.

A few years later, they couldn’t maintain it anymore, and the ship itself demanded some sort of upgrading so they decided to… sell it for iron-and-steel scrap! The company which bought it couldn’t transport it to scrap site, mainly because Turkey didn’t allow the private company to pass the big and scary aircraft-carrier through its waters it in time so it stayed for one and a half year and they seriously considered on abandoning it. Later they got permission from Turkey and moved it from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. And then in Mediterranean it has almost got stuck on sandbank. So it took it a few years to come to travel in its the last journey.

[Remarc]

She apparently didn't make it to Turkey.

Google Earth - Varyag (Russian) - Dalian China - 38 56 29 n 121 38 39 e

[Remarc]

Other ships in China

Minsk (Russian) - Sha Tau Kok Hong Kong - 22 33 13 n 114 14 13 e

Kiev (Russian) - Tianjin China - 39 09 19 n 117 48 30 e

Nimitz Replica - Museum- Shanghai China - 31 06 18 n 121 00 50 e

[pakarang]

And then in Mediterranean it has almost got stuck on sandbank. So it took it a few years to come to travel in its the last journey.

She apparently didn't make it to Turkey.

Google Earth - Varyag (Russian) - Dalian China - 38 56 29 n 121 38 39 e

How strange... she is China, but in the information that was provided, she made it to the Med... so I checked her out on wikipedia, and that gave me some pretty interesting reading:

Currently the ship is being examined and repaired by China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) after purchasing it at auction[3]. It was widely reported that the ship would become a casino in the Chinese SAR of Macau. This has been proven incorrect as the ship is in a drydock in Dalian and painted PLAN grey. Many analysts believe that the ship will be used for training as China builds an indigenous aircraft carrier with greater capability.

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_...carrier_Varyag

[pakarang]

A submarine breaking the ice:



There are also some cool video-clips on youtube of submarines rising through the ice:



Shorter version:

[pakarang]

An aircraft carrier at sea:

[Sterkoder]

And for those interested, this is the USS John C. Stennis

[pakarang]

Never heard of this incident: now on sale in a book:

In French:

Cet épisode donnera lieu à une formidable opération de récupération de la part des Américains, conduite par le milliardaire excentrique Howard Hugues. Ce que les archives désormais accessibles révèlent, c’est qu’en réalité le navire a coulé en essayant de lancer un de ses terribles missiles nucléaires sur la base navale US de Pearl Harbor. Ce ne serait qu’un épisode de plus à la Tom Clancy – mais en vrai – si les Américains n’avaient, lorsqu’ils ont remonté les restes du K-129 à la surface, constaté que le bâtiment de l’URSS était déguisé en sous-marin chinois ! Les auteurs démontrent que l’opération était préméditée, et non le fait d’un commandant dévoyé, et que le but de l’opération était de déclencher une guerre entre les USA et la Chine.

Ce livre est un best seller aux Etats-Unis, et un film grand public est en préparation.

In English:

This episode will be a huge salvage operation from the Americans, led by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. What now accessible archives reveal is that in reality the ship sank while trying to launch one of its devastating nuclear missiles on the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor. This would be an episode of the Tom Clancy - but true - if the Americans had when they recovered the remains of K-129 to the surface, found that the building of the USSR was disguised submarine in Chinese! The authors demonstrate that the operation was premeditated, and not the act of a rogue commander, and that the aim was to ignite a war between the USA and China. This book is a bestseller in the United States , a film and general public is being prepared.

The book: http://www.marines-editions.fr/bouti...lg=lg_fr&num=2

[Sterkoder]

I hear rumers that Rørvik is "packed" with navy ships today. 17 norwegian and several foreigner....., I hope you have batteries in your camera J-O!
(Sorry for not sending you a message about it beforehand, but you know..., military ships show up kind of invisible).

[pakarang]

I hear rumers that Rørvik is "packed" with navy ships today. 17 norwegian and several foreigner....., I hope you have batteries in your camera J-O!
(Sorry for not sending you a message about it beforehand, but you know..., military ships show up kind of invisible).

Haven't been to the port area at all today - been reading up on GMDSS for the exam tomorrow morning.... YIIKESSS

[Sterkoder]

Oh well...., I guess pictures will be to see at Norsk Skipsfarts Forum..., because there was where I saw the rumer

Wish you all the best of luck on your exam friday morning...!!!! I'll send some positive thoughts your way from 09:30 local...

[pakarang]

Oh well...., I guess pictures will be to see at Norsk Skipsfarts Forum..., because there was where I saw the rumer.

Thanks.... I think this Navy vessels thingy was an April Fool's joke to be honest... no military vessels of any kind here...