Half a submarine just floated past.
gin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;” src=”http://www.penguinsix.com/images/sub.jpg” alt=”" width=”400″ />Ok, I know it sounds odd, but I swear I just saw 1/2 of a Submarine go past the house on top of a barge.
I went to the AIS site and the barge is the:
Ship Name: C.ANGELO
Speed : 8
MMSI: 366988420
Course: 356.5
Ship Type: Tug
Heading: 511
Ship Lat: 38.6979
Ship Long: -76.451
Dimensions: L: 30
W: 10
Destination: RIVER HEAD
D: 3.4
ETA: Jan09 19:00
http://www.popularwireless.com/sp/index.php
UPDATE: It might be the front bit that goes in below the waterline in front of a ship:
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Rats! I’m going to start following your Tweets! I missed this one. I did catch the littoral combat ship going by at 46.9 knots though. See that one?
Yea, I see a lot of funky ships go by, including the LCS, a hydrofoil and a Stealth testing ship.
Search this blog for Sealion or Hydrofoil.
Great pictures by the way. My camera is somewhat limited at that range. I’ll just have to continue enjoying the view with binoculars.
Local Ship Watchers…
Be sure to read this post at PenguinSix regarding an interesting barge and cargo that floated by weekend last. That begs the question what have readers of both blogs seen recently on the bay? Leave comments on the blogs so we can compare notes.SHARETHI…
It is the bow section of a submarine. We were towing it from Newport News Shipyard to Electric Boat in Groton, CT. It’s sitting on the jack-up barge “Sea Shuttle”. Nice Shot.
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