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The Finlaystone Timber Ponds to the west of Glasgow. Stretching from Langbank to Port Glasgow, these enclosures, formed by driving wooden stakes into the mud on the foreshore, date from the early to mid-18th Century and were used to store the timber needed to construct wooden vessels in the early days of commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde.

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To Compete With #Russia, #US May Finally Build #Icebreaker Ships Again

#Texas #Shipyard Deal Would Bring #Arctic Icebreakers Trump Seeks
Canada’s Davie Shipbuilding wants to invest $1B to build vessels that would help expand U.S. influence in Arctic
US has 3 Arctic-ready icebreakers. Russia has 50.
#Shipbuilding is one of few areas Republicans and Democrats agree on with Pres Trump & Biden both focusing on reviving the domestic maritime industry.
wsj.com/articles/texas-shipyar
archive.ph/FJhK9

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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.

In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.

At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

They still show up on vessel trackers so perhaps they're not scrapped yet!

Pacificat Explorer is IMO: 9146429
Pacificat Discovery is IMO: 9146431
Pacificat Voyager is IMO: 9146443

If you want to find out the owner, you can pay $CAD 15 for 24hr of vesselfinder access here: vesselfinder.com/vessels/detai

As tempting as it is, I think I'll get a couple icedCaps instead. :)

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The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island-c

The slightly larger Salish Class vessels (2016-2020) were built in Poland by Remontowa SA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish-c

Now these large "NWS” vessels will be built by Weihai which built boats for Marine Atlantic ferry, Corsica Linea, and Brittany Ferries: theglobeandmail.com/canada/art

It's hard to argue from a business decision that China is not one of the top manufacturers of high quality vessels.

But building big ships will always be political.

en.wikipedia.orgIsland-class ferry - Wikipedia

On the new BC Ferries being built in China.

Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?

It has its own Wiki, of course.

"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”

No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).

I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.

And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.

#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fer

en.wikipedia.orgFast ferry scandal - Wikipedia