Aquila Airways

A nice vintage movie showing the Aquila Airways Solent 3, G-AKNU landing in funchal .To bad that we don’t have sea-planes planes like that anymore


The movie is from another great Madeira blog the madeirablog.eu

Le Grand Bleu

Le Grand Bleu is one of the largest private yachts in the world at 370 feet (114 metres) in length. She was built at the Vulkan yard in Germany and was launched in 2000. She was previously owned by an American businessman who sold her to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in 2002. Abramovich had her refitted to his own requirements by HDW in Kiel. This included an internal refit, and the addition of a 16ft swim platform.
Le Grand Bleu is powered by two 3,600-hp Wärtsilä engines. Details about the interiors are scanty as Abramovich is protective of his family's privacy and highly security conscious, but they were designed by Terence Disdale.
After departing the yard, Le Grand Blue headed for the Mediterranean and caused quite a stir wherever she went—and not always for good reasons. She was in Monaco in May 2004, serving as a base for Abramovich during Chelsea F.C.'s (unsuccessful) attempts to beat AS Monaco in the UEFA Champions League. In the weeks prior to that, singer Shirley Bassey complained to The Daily Express that the “big and ugly and new-fangled” behemoth blocked her view of the harbor from her hilltop home in Capri.
In June 2006, Abramovich gave away Le Grand Bleu to friend Eugene Shvidler.

text from wikipedia

Yacht name: Le Grand Bleu
Length: 370 ft • 114 metres
Launched: 2000
Builder: Vulkan
Architect: Kusch Yachtagentur
Engines: 2 x 4570 hp Caterpillars

Le Grand Bleu in the background the military ship is the Germinal F735 from France






There is an yachts on the yachts





Looks like an Eurocopter but I don’t know what model it is.
Edit the helicopter is an Eurocopter EC-135T-1 (thanks Noob Brit from mp.net for the help )





I have no idea why one of the guy is hiding on the floor but they do have a quite nice swimming pool :-)

Polícia Marítima

I did manage to take this photo some days ago and i am curius what kind of rubber boat is he using ,i know the eingine is made by tohatsu but i dont know if the boat also made by tohatsu but if any one know for sure please leave a comment



The Polícia Marítima also use the good old Toyota Hilux pickup for transport on land

Germinal F735

We also have a ship from the france navy in Funchal today the Germinal is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the sixth and last ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after Germinal, the 7th month of the Republican Calendar.

And here are some photos the ship

QUEEN ELISABETH 2 ,MSC MUSICA and DISCOVERY

And here are the photos

QUEEN ELISABETH 2




MSC MUSICA




DISCOVERY

QUEEN ELISABETH 2 ,MSC MUSICA , DISCOVERY amd Germinal (F735) in Funchal today

Today we have three different cruiser ships and one military ship in Funchal MSC MUSICA, DISCOVERY ,QUEEN ELISABETH 2 and Germinal (F735) from the French Marine Nationale, photos will be uploaded during the day :-)

Merry Christmas from Kockums sweden

HMS Visby and HMS Helsingborg

HMS Gotland


pictures from Kockums sweden

P&O Oceana

P&O Oceana (formerly Ocean Princess) is a modified Sun class cruise ship which began operation in February 2000.
In November 2002, Ocean Princess was transferred to P&O Cruises.The vessel entered operation in May 2003, after participating in a renaming ceremony with sister ship Adonia, and presided over by Zara Phillips, the daughter of Princess Anne. The time in between acquisition and launch was spent reconfiguring the vessel to open up an additional deck for passenger use, resulting in a corresponding increase in passenger capacity from 1,950 to 2,016.

Cacine class patrol ships

I have always been a big fan of the ship in the “Cacine class“ so every time I se one of them in funchal I am down there with my camera,I think they use her for SAR operation (Search And Rescue) among others things

NRP SAVE (P1161) going into Funchal harbor,




P1155 CENTAURO a small Patrol (Coastal) ship from the Centauro Class and P1161 SAVE in the background


NRP Quanza P1144




NRP Zaire P1146