The Marine Picture archive

Here you'll find Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net's extensive collection of interesting photographs of ships, mariners, and their work environment. Just click on a gallery and enjoy. We also have a video gallery, click here to go there.

Various Subjects Galleries 

		Martin's Own - A collection of pictures from ships and their travels. Exclusive to www.dieselduck.ca
		Martin's Older Pictures - These are mostly pre digital, but interesting nonetheless. Most from working the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Exclusive to www.dieselduck.ca
		Submitted Gallery - These are submitted by visitors just like you. Exclusive to www.dieselduck.ca
		This is a gallery of images uploaded to support stories found on the The Monitor, www.dieselduck.net's very own blog space. Mostly collected from the public domain.
		Engine Room - Various shots of the technical spaces of a ship; engine rooms and machinery. The most interesting to me; collected from the public domain.
		Weather - It's a constant peril of being a sailors, although amazing to see; collected from the public domain.
		People - Ships are just a hunk a steel without a crew to make her go. Check out some mariners; collected from the public domain.
		Ships & Vessels - Various sizes, types and predicaments; collected from the public domain.

Ship Tours

		Visit the high tech cable laying ship MV Knight, laid up in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
		Visit the "Snag Boat" Preston. A beautifully restored steamboat retired in Anacortes Washington, USA.

Special Galleries

		Video and pictures of the large tug Rivtow Capt Bob and its log barge, Rivtow Hercules, in action.
		This tug had no chance where this swollen river meets the bridge.
		The Heavy Lift ship MV Black Marlin in action, picking up the damaged US Navy Destroyer Cole.
		Carnival's MV Celebration had to have one of it's engines crankshaft replaced in the Grand Bahamas Shipyard, in Freeport.
		The Dubai Drydocks accident. Two section of the caisson holding the sea back, failed, flooding the dock.
		Visit Fort Lauderdale's RTM Star Center. A training facility for professional mariners.
		Get a visual taste of the weather off the East Coast of Canada
		BP thunder Horse after a visit from Hurricane Dennis in the Gulf of Mexico, July 2005
		Dutch pilot boats at work in all sorts of weather
		Some scary and stormy seas, sort of...

 

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
- William Shedd

Visit other great picture sites...

	The SS United States web site
	Check out pictures from the Panama Canal
	Quayside from the canal of the UK
	AHTS and other oil industry support ships
	Shipwrecks and disasters from Tharros Marittima in  Italy
	Pictures from the liner SS Australis by Ken Ironside
	Frequently updated pictures from Clydesite
	NOAA's excellent collection
	Louis Mancini's Monster of the sea page about liners of past
	Carlos Bello put this great collection of pictures of Portuguese ships
	Some BC Ferries pictures from Kevin
	John Shipnet from Holland
	Flying Focus professional airborne ship photog

The nearer the land, the greater the danger.
-old saying

 

	Edward's Ship Page UK ships and such
	Many pictures of various ship, new and old
	Auke Visser's ESSO tanker site
	The US MARAD's pics
	Philip Barker offers us many pictures from Liverpool
	Alf post many pics from Norway, as does his friend
	Susan Milne documents the ships on the Alaska Cruise schedule
	Don Medforth has an extensive collection of west coast tug pics
	Fred's Place - you'll find lots of USCG ship pictures
	Steve's Place - Good section on marine disasters
	All that floats has pictures from Germany
	Check out Raoul's Das Ruderhaus, mostly on cruise ships
	Many picture of the SS Norway in Bremhaven

Of all the works of the Creation, none is so imposing as the Ocean.
-John Constable

 

	Shipparade.com has many excellent cruise ships pictures
	NYC based Don Sutherland
	The German Government maintains this site for transportation safety
	westcoastferries.ca offers up lots of historical and recent pictures of mainly BC Ferries
	Essi from Finland has this website
	Tugspotter from the Netherlands has many pictures of tugs from all over the world
	Jesper from Denmark offers up jtashipfoto
	evegreenfleet.com chronicles the many ships of the Washington State Ferry System
	Portpictures.nl from the Netherlands has great series of shots
	Container Shipping has lots of pictures and explanations of accidents
	This site lists cable ships in operation with pictures
	Tom the Mississippi bilge rat has some really nice shots on Flicker
	Joaquim from Spain run this site
	The United States Coast Guard keeps their media here
	"Dock" has lots of pics from Japan, and in Japanese
	Mike Helm from Halifax has this neat picture / historical maritime website
	Michael from Denmark offers us Ferry Site

Send me your pictures, ideas, or recommendations