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
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Check out the most recent addition to the archive area. This gallery features only the pictures uploaded at the last update. July 2009 | |
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Martin's Own - A collection of pictures from ships and their travels. Exclusive to www.dieselduck.ca | |
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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 | |
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Submitted Gallery - These are submitted by visitors just like you. Exclusive to www.dieselduck.ca | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Weather - It's a constant peril of being a sailors, although amazing to see; collected from the public domain. | |
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People - Ships are just a hunk a steel without a crew to make her go. Check out some mariners; collected from the public domain. | |
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Ships & Vessels - Various sizes, types and predicaments; collected from the public domain. |
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The engine room of the 2008 built tanker, Helcion, is feature in these pictures. | |
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Have a look at the Fugro Saltire, a new Survey Vessel for E Forland of Norway. Top notch accommodations for workers and crew. | |
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Visit the high tech cable laying ship MV Knight, laid up in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. | |
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Visit the "Snag Boat" Preston. A beautifully restored steamboat retired in Anacortes Washington, USA. |
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Modern semi submersible drilling rig Deep Water Horizon, suffered an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and sank in April 2010 | |
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MV Algoport sinking in East China Sea | |
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A pdf file of some pretty impressive weather | |
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If you had a camera back in the days of sail, some of the pictures might look like these. | |
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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. | |
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Few cities mix their maritime industries and tourism better than the US Northwest city of Anacortes. | |
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A pdf version of a power point presentation of various heavy lift ships in action. Quite a breed apart. | |
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A pdf version of a power point presentation of the very impressive private yacht of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Octopus. | |
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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. | |
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Video and pictures of the large tug Rivtow Capt Bob and its log barge, Rivtow Hercules, in action. | |
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The rebirth of Victoria's Point Hope Shipyards a small but modern ship repair facility on Canada's West Coast. | |
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This tug had no chance where this swollen river meets the bridge. | |
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The Heavy Lift ship MV Black Marlin in action, picking up the damaged US Navy Destroyer Cole. | |
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Carnival's MV Celebration had to have one of it's engines crankshaft replaced in the Grand Bahamas Shipyard, in Freeport. | |
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The Dubai Drydocks accident. Two section of the caisson holding the sea back, failed, flooding the dock. | |
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Visit Fort Lauderdale's RTM Star Center. A training facility for professional mariners. | |
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Get a visual taste of the weather off the East Coast of Canada | |
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BP thunder Horse after a visit from Hurricane Dennis in the Gulf of Mexico, July 2005 | |
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Dutch pilot boats at work in all sorts of weather | |
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Some scary and stormy seas, sort of... |
 | 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 |
| Merchant Ship International |
| Ships and Vessels at Flickr |
| The Port of Antwerp in pictures, from Bruijneel Steven |
| Clayton Shipping offers us sights from Singapore |
| The Port of Gibraltar's collection |
| VHF Online has pictures from Denmark |
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| Fred Fry and his tour aboard the nuclear powered cargo ship NS Savannah |
| Tradewinds, the Norwegian shipping paper has a marine photo contest |
| The Dock Museum has allot of vintage shipyard pictures |
| 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 |
| Jesse's A Tug Boat Life |
| Kevin Hulsey illustrates cutaways of cruise ships |
| Eric Stapleton's
extensive collection at Pbase  |
| Pelican Passage
offer a great glimpse of life on workboats
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| Clayton Shipping has many pictures of various ships |
| Amy Heiden, a photog, visit the ghost fleet in the US |
| Eastcoaster has lots of pictures of ships trading in northern Europe |
| 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 |
| Dusty Sensor offers great shot of Canada's North while working as a airplane pilot |
| OneEighteen at Flickers has lots of great shots of ships near Houston |
| ShipPhoto from Japan has some great shots |