Weekly Challenge 68 - ships and boats - Voting Closed!

[kev7d]

For this week I will pick ships and boats, things that travel on water with an engine.

Entries accepted until midnight Friday 21 October.

[kev7d]

[Phil]

Goole being a port I couldn't really get away with not entering this challenge.

 

[ChrisLumix]

All I've got, I'm afraid 

(Still, it could have been worse - you could have chosen Napoleon... )

I've looked up the number on Google : apparently, that's Sir Galahad, a troop carrier and 'landing ships logistics' vessel. She was used in the Falklands where she was attacked. One of the survivors was Guardsman Simon Weston, who suffered horrific burns, had to have his face totally rebuilt and you've probably seen on TV. After that war, her hulk was towed out to sea and sunk, and is now an officially designated war grave. (Photographed at Liverpool docks in 1974).

Edited October 19, 2016 by ChrisLumix

[CMunzel]

The Canberra on our Murray Rover in flood.

[Denis]

The Woolwich ferry leaves the north side of the Thames...

[colinb]

The S.S. American Star otherwise known as the SS Australis wrecked off the coast of Fuertventura - now gone forever.

Edited October 20, 2016 by colinb

[Kobione]

To far away from any to get a fresh one so one from the archives. The view of Table Mountain and the Cape Town dock area as we approached on our trip to Aus. in 1968, scanned from a slide taken at the time, don't know what that boat was:

[Brian]

One of the Central Mercantile Bank's lady crews on the River Yarra at lunchtime.

This is very close to my heart, as before emigrating I used to row on the Thames, very close to where Denis's Ferry entry was taken.

[kev7d]

3 hours ago, Kobione said:

To far away from any to get a fresh one so one from the archives. The view of Table Mountain and the Cape Town dock area as we approached on our trip to Aus. in 1968, scanned from a slide taken at the time, don't know what that boat was:

 

That is interesting. The yellow funnel was that of the company Royal Mail Line. 

[Black Pearl]

[ChrisLumix]

Some interesting interpretations of the word 'engine'!

[Clicker]

Most yachts  do have one  nowadays don't they ...as a fail safe against  being becalmed ...belt and braces type thing. Least all the  yachts i have been on have 

[Clicker]

Went down to Stourport Basin to get  these  canal narrowboats ...

Narrowboats moored...

 

[CanonChrissy]

MPI Adventure - Turbine Installation Vessel -view full size to appreciate and see the starbursts

Edited October 20, 2016 by CanonChrissy

[JamesT]

Very definitely in the past tense.

The remains of a fishing boat near Blakeney.

[Brian]

It seems some of us (I mean me!) need to go back and re-read the rules. To me, a boat is a boat!

[Rogerw]

Fishing Boat in Cornwall , half a mile out to sea, ,trusty Nikon Coolpix to capture it

Edited October 21, 2016 by Rogerw

[Clicker]

5 hours ago, Brian said:

It seems some of us (I mean me!) need to go back and re-read the rules. To me, a boat is a boat!

I think maybe Kev mentioned  engines to include things like Jet ski's .... they travel on the water... Only  he  can tell us... as I agree .... a boat is a boat ....lol.. Over to you Kev ...did you mean  every boat  had to have an engine ?

[Ryewolf]

One from the archives - A Personal Watercraft (PWC)

[Brian]

8 hours ago, Clicker said:

I think maybe Kev mentioned  engines to include things like Jet ski's .... they travel on the water... Only  he  can tell us... as I agree .... a boat is a boat ....lol.. Over to you Kev ...did you mean  every boat  had to have an engine ?

I think I'd rather be in a boat with my "engine" than any of yours!

[CanonChrissy]

Not long to go but a FAB turnout this week so far

[ChrisLumix]

9 hours ago, Clicker said:

I think maybe Kev mentioned  engines to include things like Jet ski's .... they travel on the water... Only  he  can tell us... as I agree .... a boat is a boat ....lol.. Over to you Kev ...did you mean  every boat  had to have an engine ?

I think - from Kev's own post, and what he's posted often before - that he might have meant ships rather than boats, but widened it to "boats with engines" as some of us might not have any ship pictures? Luckily I did have one, and thanks to this competition I discovered it was the Sir Galahad!

Edited October 21, 2016 by ChrisLumix

[Black Pearl]

I think that the interpretation of a theme is down to members but ultimately the voting will decide what is acceptable to one person and what is acceptable to everyone else.

[Phil]

Beepy has hit the nail on the head, all these comps are subject to each member's interpretation. Once Kev gets the poll rolling it's up to the voters to decide which image best fits the bill.