Thank you all for your kind words. She’s a very well balanced ship... and a lot of the praise here really has to go to her designers... ;) Following her retirement, Caronia spent a year in Southampton. She was eventually bought by Universal Lines. Her name was changed to SS Columbia with registry in...
RMS Caronia was the first large liner built in Great Britain after the Second World War. She was launched at John Brown’s shipyard, by Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, on the 30th October 1947. She served with Cunard White Star lines as a cruise ship and as liner during the seasonal peak, ...
Excellent work, Hood. The "concave bend in the stern" was an hole used for the stream anchor. Sometimes the anchor was carried, sometimes it wasn't. :oops: Pardon me... openeing in stern... got that confused with HMS Inflexible… Some pictures of HMS Repulse shows the stern anchore and its arranbeme...
Well the Bucket needs more sailing ships... http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Lurian/Shipbucket/SmallCrafts/sv_bremen_cog.png The "Bremen Cog" is the wreck of a 1380 Cog discovered during construction works in the river Weser in 1962. The search for her parts lasted till 1965. Some 2000 pieces were eve...
:D That's a nice little tug boat! Very Nice, I wish more people would do tugboat here on Shipbucket As a matter of fact, I’ve already started work on her larger West Coast cousin – the ocean going tug Hercules of 1907. In the later half of her service live, she was employed by Western Pacific Railro...
What are your sources for the camouflage colors? This is a source for colours which I've been using for a while now (not for pixel art). It also gives values for some standard non-camouflage colours. http://www.banksofthesusquehanna.com/Color_Charts/USN_ship_camo.htm There's also a pages for colour...