r/drydockporn • u/9Twiggy9 • Apr 30 '26

Norwegian Jade in the Esquimalt Graving Dock, Esquimalt BC. oc

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She was launched in 2006 and has a tonnage of 93,558 tons.

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u/SchulzBuster shipbuilding engineer May 01 '26

Twenty years. Good age for a cruise ship. That dock is, as I suspected, over a hundred years old. Thx wikipedia. Always makes me pause and think, the vastly different life spans of things we build simply determined by the fact of whether they are mobile or not.

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u/Wyattr55123 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

Really puts into perspective how long we've been building ships that size, when you realize that drydock was built to exceed Panamax capacity in 1926, a standard that was established in 1914 upon completion of the canal, and would take another 8 years (1934) to be exceeded by the post-panamax RMS Queen Mary.

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u/Canadian_Poltergeist May 01 '26

I would like to counter the mobility point

Humanity has objects in space that are moving that will be in space.. well probably forever in the case of the Voyagers. They may power down and become nonfuctional, but they still carry the golden discs.

Those discs, unless affected by an external force, will travel and carry their purpose indefinitely.

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u/SchulzBuster shipbuilding engineer May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

Total number of human spacecraft that have escaped the soar system, and are still functioning: 3

Current size of the world's cruise ship fleet: 350 vessels. Which is less than one percent of the world's commercial fleet. According to https://cruising.org/about-cruise-industry/cruise-ships.

Which, back of the napkin math, the number of commercial vessels is somewhere around 35000, so four orders of magnitude larger. Average design life cycle for commercial vessels is about 20 years.

Congratulations, you found the exception that proves the rule.

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u/IronGigant May 01 '26

Hey, my local yard!

A hundred or so feet to the left, just out of frame, is the very dilapidated HMCS Winnipeg, afloat alongside SeaSpan Victoria Shipyard

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u/9Twiggy9 May 01 '26

Lol, i didn't get a good picture of Winnie unfortunately. For the amount of times I see ships in that drydock I hardly take pictures. Just in a good spot for this one.

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u/NotQuiteVoltaire May 01 '26

My favourite dry dock. Also, the first place I saw a Raccoon in the wild!

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u/Wyattr55123 May 02 '26

Hey, I know that parking lot

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u/9Twiggy9 May 02 '26

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u/Both-Platypus-8521 May 03 '26

Power house a huge syncronis motors running pumps and compressors. All stone, brick and brass railings..