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Looks majestic

Two capesize bulkers collided off Singapore on Wednesday.
Brave Maritime’s 181,500-dwt Cape XL (built 2011) came into contact with Nissen Kaiun’s 208,800-dwt Huge Kumano (built 2020), according to photographs seen by TradeWinds.
Vessel tracking data showed the Marshall Islands-flagged Cape XL was departing Singapore’s eastern anchorage for Qingdao, China when it was in collision with the Panama-flagged Huge Kumano, which was transiting the Singapore Strait while on a voyage from Brazil.

Always maintain safe speed and sharp lookout!

the three that I thought of were the

North Korean Destroyer Kang Kon

Russian auxiliary vessel Kamchatka

SS Principessa Jolanda

I would include the Kuznetsov, but it has somehow failed to sink

This is one of those models — a Chinese river boat, the kind that moved grain, silk, and people through the inland waterways of the Yangtze Delta for over a thousand years.

A few details worth looking at closely:

The lattice railings along the sides are not printed or cast. Each section is assembled from individual pieces of timber, fitted joint by joint. At this scale, each joint is about 2–3mm.

The canopy roof is woven — real fiber, not painted wood. The texture you can see in the photo is the actual weave pattern.

The oars extending from the bow and stern are functional in proportion — the correct length relative to the hull for a boat of this beam. They're not decorative approximations.

The hull planks are individual. Each one is shaped to its position — wider amidships, narrower toward the bow and stern where the hull curves. The variation in grain between planks is not inconsistency. It's evidence of the process.

The craft of wooden ship model-making in Zhoushan is officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage — a designation that acknowledges it's a living tradition worth preserving before the last people who know it are gone.

I’ve recently watched the video by Yarnhub about the HMS Jervis bay, an armed merchant vessel, and was curious to see what y’all thought about ships such as Jervis bay?

This ship was observed in the middle of Pacific ocean underway to Asia from Canadian coast

My first crew transfer by boat was in Malta. Usually we crew change in port or with a helicopter, depending on vessel operations. Even though it looks flat and calm, the small crew change boat was moving around a fair bit! You had to wait and time your step/jump from the gangway onto the smaller boat.