Questions tagged [ships]
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What kind of ship is this?
I've recently been on Rügen and I have seen this:
Does anybody have an idea what this is?
(To give Google a chance: A ship with four "towers" made out of steel on it. They looks a bit like high-voltage electrical towers.)
Martin Thoma
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How to move a stuck 400m cargo ship?
I am definitely not the captain of the Evergreen what is currently stuck in the Suez Canal: https://www.google.com/search?q=Evergreen+Suez+Canal
But from an engineering point of view, what would be the best method to move this cargo ship, back to…
SutoTi
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Keel Attachment
In Technik Museum Speyer I have seen strange attachments to the keel of Rescue Ship John T. Essberger. What is their purpose? Are they anyhow related to hydrodynamics? They are quite small compared to the size of the ship.
banterCZ
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Why don't modern warships still use cannons?
This question is about a technical aspect of naval warfare, and I think that this site is the closest fit. History would have been my next guess.
In the TV show “The Last Ship” the protagonists have an Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer.…
Martin Ueding
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Ship Longtitudinal Centre of Gravity Position
This question is designed to get help from someone (with some important important questions), so that I can get an understanding on why I cannot quite get the correct answer for this question Longtitudinal Centre of Gravity for Ship Cargo.
Also…
Rob Wilkinson
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