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Post by lmtengs on Jun 27, 2010 21:21:33 GMT -8
I think it's neat to watch ship launchings take place, so here's a thread for y'all to post your photos/videos of ships being launched. I'll start it off with some 'Tubes that I found...
This is a cool method of launching. Are those logs underneath the ship?
The actual LAUNCH of this one starts at 1:24 approx.
Here's one that didn't go as well:
Here's one that didn't go well at all:
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D'Elete BC in NJ
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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Jun 29, 2010 4:24:05 GMT -8
I think it's neat to watch ship launchings take place, so here's a thread for y'all to post your photos/videos of ships being launched. I'll start it off with some 'Tubes that I found... This is a cool method of launching. Are those logs underneath the ship? The modern equivalent...rubber air bags...
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Post by FNS on Jun 29, 2010 7:42:27 GMT -8
This ship takes a bow to her builders. ;D
I don't think this would ever happen at FSG.
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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Jun 29, 2010 10:50:27 GMT -8
This ship takes a bow to her builders. ;D I don't think this would ever happen at FSG. I started looking through the other videos that came up after the end of this one and came across this one that has both a Staten Island ferry launch and a FSG launch.
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 16, 2010 11:54:30 GMT -8
Here's a new YouTube video posted by Markus Brinkmann's account...
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 16, 2010 12:09:55 GMT -8
Here are two more: the first is a neat icebreaker launch:
And here's our very own Coastal Celebration being launched, another video of Markus.
The slow and unspectacular launch of the Osprey 2000:
This launch/rollover makes no sense:
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