Oceanic Gallery

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, at Southampton

Reaching Southampton the Queen Mary docked in an enormous King George V graving drydock, ready for its maiden voyage to New York in May 1936. Within thirty minutes of her stem entering the dock she was moored fast, the last 200 feet of her journey was done by man power, engines switched off, twenty men hauled her into position by ropes with 8ft 6 inches to spare on either side of her. The same night, 58, 000, 000 gallons of water was being pumped out of the dock, hundreds of workmen with brooms cleaned and scraped the hull, removing barnacles and covering below the water-line with anti-fouling composition. Date: March 1936

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Africa, topographic map

Africa, topographic map. Highlands and lowlands of the continents are shown as ridges and flat areas. Southern Europe and the Middle East are also seen at top and upper right respectively. The seabed depth varies from shallow (light blue) on the continental shelves, to deep ocean basins (dark blue). Topographic and bathymetric data is usually gathered by using aerial and satellite imagery combined with radar and sonar mapping. The satellites in this case were NOAA's POES satellites

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Sandy beach with algae-covered rocks at Balranald

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Sandy beach with algae-covered rocks at Balranald
on the west coast of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Bob Gibbons
Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

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Algae, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, Beach, Beaches, Coast, Coastal, Countries, Country, Country Side, Earth And Environment, Europe, European, Exposed, Geography, Hebrides, Landscape, Landscapes, Littoral, North Uist, Oceanic, Rock, Rocks, Sand, Sandy, Scot Land, Scottish Islands, Sea, Strand, Strandline, Tidal, Tide, United Kingdom, Water