Posts by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
(DIR) Post #AbBiYWr0DOkV6c57Vg by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2023-10-26T19:12:28Z
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Short but far from sweet - the abortive career of SS Daphnehttps://dreadships.com/ships-of-note-ss-daphne/
(DIR) Post #Ac8PSwkiGfwfk0DW1g by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2023-11-24T13:21:06Z
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A Mr Anderson believed his "Equilibrio couch" was the answer to seasickness.It wasn't.#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #Ad4We7ERNGbhKpX6Ke by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2023-12-22T14:43:44Z
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Ludicrous shat-through-a-tube future of transport Hyperloop was officially abandoned this week, proving once again that atmospheric railways suck.The victim of unsolvable technological problems like "going around corners", Hyperloop nonetheless achieved its primary aims of attracting investment away from boring old high speed rail. Y'know, the stuff that actually works.#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #Ad5d4i6ZhHfs6hsVoe by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2023-12-22T21:03:45Z
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@midgephoto the logic was sound, although the confidence in arguably led to the Devon Banks being steeper then they might have been, and it failed to anticipate the speed at which locomotive power would develop. And yes, electricity is definitely aiming for the same benefit (but works)
(DIR) Post #AdJphSN2aBLyOfUrnk by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2023-12-29T13:02:46Z
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The AeroLift Cyclocrane. Apparently the product of an aeronautical engineer's fevered cheese dream, the entire body of the machine spun 13 times a minute to rotate the weird stalky wing things and thereby generate lift. No excuse for gluing engines to the top of the wings has been advanced.Built to lift trees out of remote forests, it turns out nobody wanted trees *that* badly, and was promptly cancelled.#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #AhkAec1RhSmsSU5GCW by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-10T09:14:59Z
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Tech bros love to boast about moving fast and breaking things, so it comes as some relief to find an instance where they've moved at a more stately 17 knots and yet still utterly fucked it.In this case the "it" being carpool vehicles. Programmed to treat movement without the engine being switched on as either theft or witchcraft, they instantly bricked themselves in response. What happened when these vehicles travelled by ferry was perhaps predictable...#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #Ahy3kas4uh3H9y2vuy by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-03T19:50:00Z
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Many of us have suffered ill-advised Brazilians, and today's ingrowing hair on the crotch of history is Brazilian ironclad Aquidabã.Sunk by its own government when they got pissed off with its crew constantly revolting, it was eventually fished out, repaired and refitted.They might as well not have bothered. During a routine cruise to find new naval sites in 1906 it created quite the naval sight of its own via a very much non-routine and career-ending explosion. Oops.#FailureFriday.
(DIR) Post #Ak5V6jIXZLIvLZ3YJc by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-07-19T09:37:08Z
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An embarrassing crash causing transportation chaos, you say? This here is Kiwi ferry Aratere adding a new, unscheduled stop to its itinerary after somebody pressed the wrong button. Why there was a button marked "ram the nearest island" is a question best left to the inevitable enquiry.Crew have since been ordered not to use the autopilot "in certain situations". What situations are unspecified, but surely include "when fucking up would be embarrassing".#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #AkYQlBIzzbB3bgZuCG by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-08-02T10:54:20Z
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Lots of excitement around the Olympic rowing, but lane racing is somewhat sanitised. Give them a proper river to contend with#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #AljknF7gx2oTeHcm0W by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-09-06T11:24:40Z
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We've not bothered the lads of the Jeune École for a while, so this here is Le Fulminant - and no, it's not parked in front of another, taller vessel.Built as a coastal defence ship, about the only interesting thing it did was to attack the coast - and more specifically a rock outside Le Conquet that nearly sank it.And coincidentally Le Conquet sounds like a pretty good way to describe the event...#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #AmC0OYJVVFKRcWHGPw by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2024-09-20T10:53:18Z
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HMS Cobra. Built to convince the Admiralty of the great benefit of turbine propulsion.Unfortunately also demonstrated the even greater benefit of not building ships that embarrassingly break in half and sink.#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #AroFiwX70fylE12jsu by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-03-07T10:57:14Z
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In a case of literal Brough justice, H&S Wisdom has completely buggered up its attempt to navigate the Humber estuary and will now be stuck outside the Yorkshire town until the next properly big tides in a month or so. If, that is, they're big enough to lift it - and they might not be.And is it a hazard to navigation? Well not there it isn't, no...#FailureFridayhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrylxle8pzo
(DIR) Post #AsFK1tCGnr7bgVitw8 by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-03-10T19:45:17Z
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Bit of an update on here for anybody following the collision (technically an allision) between the cargo ship Solong and tanker Stena Immaculate earlier today in the approaches to the Humber.
(DIR) Post #AsklEAFd3PfjhmFQNU by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-04-04T14:52:06Z
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Important defence news: the RAF have improved their supply of teatime snacks. They remain a very serious air force.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo
(DIR) Post #At0qWXbupI266CgbkO by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-04-12T07:15:25Z
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I don't know how I got added to the AI snake oil working group, but by golly I'm having fun. Free tip for AI snake oil merchants: if you're struggling to answer a simple technical query and somebody seemingly helpfully suggests to use your software to resolve it, this is what we call "a trap".Under no circumstances allow your software to pull down its pants and expose itself in front of everybody. Especially if the helpful person was smiling when they suggested it.
(DIR) Post #AuNbIHDmxNBFjoBDE0 by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-05-22T08:54:18Z
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Great day for fans of stuck boats, as a Cypriot cargo ship has parked itself in somebody's garden in Norway - AND THERE'S LIVE FOOTAGE!It's actually really relaxing to watch unless, presumably, you're one of the crew...Edit: boo! They've turned the camera off now it's dark and the page is down. I'll see if there's a YouTube version tomorrow or something.
(DIR) Post #AurufTnGpwNrLhCG9Y by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-06-06T21:05:29Z
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HMAS Canberra did its bit to foster cordial relationships with New Zealand this week, mostly by making sure the the Kiwis couldn't go online and say nasty things like "why the fuck are you blocking our internet?"#FailureFridayhttps://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563357/hmas-canberra-accidentally-blocks-wireless-internet-and-radio-services-in-new-zealand
(DIR) Post #AvKsJ23a6xmuRsYZIe by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-06-20T19:43:52Z
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Dunno who has been following the Bayesian story, but it's now been fished up from the seabed. Not sure if it'll give any more answers, tbh https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c74zl9eleezo
(DIR) Post #Aw2EvxXZVvObf70SX2 by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-07-11T15:44:25Z
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In a blow to NATO, a mere eight years into its three-year overhaul, and after sinking in its dry dock, going on fire, having a crane fall on it, losing its entire crew to facilitate an illegal invasion, having most of its reconstruction materials embezzled and going on fire again, Russian media is suggesting that strategic rust reserve and occasional environmental disaster Admiral Kuznetsov might not be returning to "service" after all...#FailureFriday
(DIR) Post #B0iUv9ZwnimJHhJ4Xw by DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk
2025-11-28T20:21:42Z
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In 1913 buildings, like destroyers, were still fitted with open bridges for better visibility and (possibly) to make it harder for people on watch to fall asleep...#FailureFriday