r/Ships

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.

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

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.

Video source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5299937617119254

Xinhua article: https://www.news.cn/milpro/20251219/588c0f6b546246eda6688a3277f56b26/c.html

Ships i could see(in order, left to right, back to front):

YD127: type 271II landing craft. very common in non-PLAN vessels units, almost certainly for transport

White boat(behind the YG123): type 684 dispatch boat: also very common in PLAGF, mostly for island garrisons, intresting to see it here

YG123: unknown class; G means 工程船(Gōngchéngchuán) or engineering ship; this usually is for stuff like cablelayers and dredgers. i think it's very likely cablelayers since information support force does stuff like electronic warfare and psychological warfare so having cablelayeds actually isn't unsuprising

YD125: Also type 271II landing craft

ship behind YD125 is likely an oiler or water tanker

Unknown tugboat

YY102: unknown class of transport ship

YU107: unknown class of oiler

unknown tugboat in front of YU107

Idk if PLAISF has island bases though base 311(psychological warfare base) is in fuzhou which has a lot of islands so i won't be surpsied honestly

PLAISF bases are very obscure and don't go on camera a lot. And again, a reminder that confidential info is not allowed on this subreddit.

Did you know?
Shortly after dawn on May 12, 1918, the British troop transport Olympic (Titanic’s Sister), rammed and sank German submarine U-103 in the English channel, making it one of two victorious encounters with enemy units. Olympic would be torpedoed by U-53 off Southampton on September 4 that same year by a spread of two torpedoes. The first missed ahead, and the second struck Olympic but its detonator failed and the ship was minimally damaged.

USS Midway anchored in Hong Kong Harbor (c.1990)

Saw this with the mothballed ships at Philadelphia today (couldn’t take a photo as I drove by, so I went to Google Maps).

What boat is this?

Picked it up at a charity shop, it has no winding key and one of the hands is loose. No makers mark, it is extremely heavy I think the case is brass. The numbers and motif in the middle are engraved and look worn down a bit with age