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 

  Check out the most recent addition to the archive area. This gallery features only the pictures uploaded at the last update. July 2009

  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

  The engine room of the 2008 built tanker, Helcion, is feature in these pictures.
  Have a look at the Fugro Saltire, a new Survey Vessel for E Forland of Norway. Top notch accommodations for workers and crew.
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

  Modern semi submersible drilling rig Deep Water Horizon, suffered an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and sank in April 2010
  MV Algoport sinking in East China Sea
  A pdf file of some pretty impressive weather
  If you had a camera back in the days of sail, some of the pictures might look like these.
  The 35,000 tonnes bulk carrier Fedra, lost power and ran aground in Oct 2008, on Europa Point in Gibraltar. Here is a pdf series of pictures from the accident.
  Few cities mix their maritime industries and tourism better than the US Northwest city of Anacortes
  A pdf version of a power point presentation of various heavy lift ships in action. Quite a breed apart.
  A pdf version of a power point presentation of the very impressive private yacht of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Octopus.
  A pdf version of a power point presentation of the Petrobas P36 disaster, put in context of that company's celebration of shareholder value just before the accident.
  Video and pictures of the large tug Rivtow Capt Bob and its log barge, Rivtow Hercules, in action.
  The rebirth of Victoria's Point Hope Shipyards a small but modern ship repair facility on Canada's West Coast.
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...

bulletThe SS United States web site
bulletCheck out pictures from the Panama Canal
bulletQuayside from the canal of the UK
bulletAHTS and other oil industry support ships
bulletShipwrecks and disasters from Tharros Marittima in  Italy
bulletPictures from the liner SS Australis by Ken Ironside
bulletFrequently updated pictures from Clydesite
bulletNOAA's excellent collection 
bulletLouis Mancini's Monster of the sea page about liners of past
bulletCarlos Bello put this great collection of pictures of Portuguese ships
bulletSome BC Ferries pictures from Kevin 
bulletJohn Shipnet from Holland
bulletFlying Focus professional airborne ship photog 
bullet Merchant Ship International
bullet Ships and Vessels at Flickr
bulletThe Port of Antwerp in pictures, from Bruijneel Steven
bulletClayton Shipping offers us sights from Singapore
bulletThe Port of Gibraltar's collection
bulletVHF Online has pictures from Denmark
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The nearer the land, the greater the danger.
-old saying

 
bulletFred Fry and his tour aboard the nuclear powered cargo ship NS Savannah
bulletTradewinds, the Norwegian shipping paper has a marine photo contest
bulletThe Dock Museum has allot of vintage shipyard pictures
bulletEdward's Ship Page UK ships and such
bulletMany pictures of various ship, new and old
bulletAuke Visser's ESSO tanker site
bulletThe US MARAD's pics
bulletPhilip Barker offers us many pictures from Liverpool
bulletAlf post many pics from Norway, as does his friend
bulletSusan Milne documents the ships on the Alaska Cruise schedule
bulletDon Medforth has an extensive collection of west coast tug pics
bulletFred's Place - you'll find lots of USCG ship pictures
bulletSteve's Place - Good section on marine disasters
bulletAll that floats has pictures from Germany
bulletCheck out Raoul's Das Ruderhaus, mostly on cruise ships
bulletMany picture of the SS Norway in Bremhaven
bulletJesse's A Tug Boat Life
bulletKevin Hulsey illustrates cutaways of cruise ships
bulletEric Stapleton's extensive collection at Pbase
bulletPelican Passage offer a great glimpse of life on workboats

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

 
bulletClayton Shipping has many pictures of various ships
bulletAmy Heiden, a photog, visit the ghost fleet in the US
bulletEastcoaster has lots of pictures of ships trading in northern Europe
bullet Shipparade.com has many excellent cruise ships pictures
bulletNYC based Don Sutherland
bulletThe German Government maintains this site for transportation safety
bulletwestcoastferries.ca offers up lots of historical and recent pictures of mainly BC Ferries
bulletEssi from Finland has this website
bulletTugspotter from the Netherlands has many pictures of tugs from all over the world
bulletJesper from Denmark offers up jtashipfoto
bulletevegreenfleet.com chronicles the many ships of the Washington State Ferry System
bulletPortpictures.nl from the Netherlands has great series of shots
bulletContainer Shipping has lots of pictures and explanations of accidents
bulletThis site lists cable ships in operation with pictures
bulletTom the Mississippi bilge rat has some really nice shots on Flicker
bulletJoaquim from Spain run this site
bulletThe United States Coast Guard keeps their media here
bullet "Dock" has lots of pics from Japan, and in Japanese
bulletMike Helm from Halifax has this neat picture / historical maritime website
bulletMichael from Denmark offers us Ferry Site
bulletDusty Sensor offers great shot of Canada's North while working as a airplane pilot
bullet OneEighteen at Flickers has lots of great shots of ships near Houston
bulletShipPhoto from Japan has some great shots
Send me your pictures, ideas, or recommendations