Ships in Movies

[ssr481]

Originally Posted by BobClay

There was another film set on a ship, with Richard Harris and Omar Sharif, about a bomb placed on a passenger ship, can't remember the title. Seem to remember seeing it on a trip via Walport much to the amusement of the crowd.

Could it be, perhaps, the film Juggernaut ?? Came out in 1974 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut_(1974_film)

Filmed aboard TS Hamburg...

[Bill Greig]

Originally Posted by ssr481

Could it be, perhaps, the film Juggernaut ?? Came out in 1974 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut_(1974_film)

Filmed aboard TS Hamburg...

Distinctly remember the film Juggernaut. I was down for my interview for P&O General Cargo Division and had many hours to fill in before my sleeper train back to Aberdeen that evening, so went to Leicester Square and watched Juggernaut in one cinema, then crossed the square when that film finished and watched The Odessa File in another place.
Bill

[BobClay]

Well we've got two ships put forward for Juggernaut. As far as I can tell from IMDB both suggestions are correct. The ship was in the process of being sold from Germany to the USSR when the film was made. It isn't clear about both names though on the 'Trivia' section of IMDB.

Quite an impressive cast, but apparently the film flopped at the box office.

[pompeyfan]

Location shots for Juggernaught were taken aboard TS Hamburg around a year after I took her anchored in Grassy Bay, Bermuda in 1971 as seen below. She was renamed Hanseatic 1973/74 before becoming Maxim Gorkiy in 1974, the same year Juggernaught was released. Therefore, as far as I am aware, she was not Maxim Gorkiy or indeed Hanseatic when the film was made.

[Dartskipper]

The film The Poseidon Adventure, (another passenger liner disaster story,) was on release when Brittany Ferries began sailings from Plymouth with a chartered Stena Line passenger only vessel.

They named it Poseidon.

[BobClay]

Also some may recall another ship disaster movie called 'The Last Voyage' for which if I remember rightly they partially sank an actual liner that was about to be scrapped anyway in order to get some of the deck scenes.

According to IMDB it was the French liner SS Ile de France which apparently horrified the former owners.

[Dartskipper]

Originally Posted by BobClay

Also some may recall another ship disaster movie called 'The Last Voyage' for which if I remember rightly they partially sank an actual liner that was about to be scrapped anyway in order to get some of the deck scenes.

According to IMDB it was the French liner SS Ile de France which apparently horrified the former owners.

Quite right Bob. I have it somewhere on VHS. (Yes, it is that old!)

[Dartskipper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4


Anyone remember this one?

[BobClay]

(How old does he think we are ? ....)

[Dartskipper]

That film inspired me to go to sea Bob. Well, at least to go to sea in the bath with my plastic tugboat..

[BobClay]

I've always thought going to sea was a bit of a Mickey Mouse way to make a living ...

(OK OK, I know that's bad, I'll put the groanometer on myself .... )

[jmilcon]

The film A Taste of Honey, the ships the Manchester Shipper and Manchester Pioneer. The following is a quote from the IMDb review of the movie.....

"When the Manchester Shipper and Manchester Pioneer were chosen to star in Shelagh Delaney's novel "A Taste of Honey", it was not known that part of the plot involved a drunken seaman taking his girlfriend on board, and also involving a drunken first officer! When the premiere took place, the company had to take space in the programme to point out that Manchester Liners neither approved nor allowed such conduct."

I spent 6 months as a deck apprentice in the Shipper in 1967. Fantastic group of officers and a great crowd - learnt a lot about seamanship; steam winches, hatchboards and tarps, patching up holes in vents with chart paper and bandages, stripping down and sanding yards and yards of painted taffrails on the boat deck and the applying and re-applying oceans of varnish till you could see your own reflection. Great days.
Cheers
John

[ssr481]

Originally Posted by BobClay

I've always thought going to sea was a bit of a Mickey Mouse way to make a living ...

(OK OK, I know that's bad, I'll put the groanometer on myself .... )

Uh huh......

[Richard]

Originally Posted by ssr481

Uh huh......

Boom Boom! or at least Boom

[Makko]

Which of the Isle of Man Steam Packet boats was used in the Barbra Streisand movie Yentl? It was about the end of 1982.

[Malcolm G]

Originally Posted by Makko

Which of the Isle of Man Steam Packet boats was used in the Barbra Streisand movie Yentl? It was about the end of 1982.

This one... Anybody name it?

[David]

Getting back to 'Juggernaut', the name 'Maxim Gorky' comes to mind. Was that it after the Hamburg ?

The Last Voyage ship was actually going to the breakers somewhere I think, and they did actually put it down by the head.

David
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[pompeyfan]

Like I said in #39, she was still Hamburg when 'Juggernaut' was filmed on location. She was Hamburg from 1969 to 1973, Hanseatic from 1973 to 1974 for German Atlantic Line, then Maxim Gorkiy under several operators from Black Sea Shipping to Phoenix Reisen until 2009 when she was scrapped at Alang, India.

[Dartskipper]

Originally Posted by Malcolm G

This one... Anybody name it?

It must be Manxman as she was still in service when the film was made, being withdrawn in 1982. Mona's Isle and Mona's Queen were taken out of service shortly before then.

[Naytikos]

Moving on to another film: I liked 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare' starring Gary Cooper. I rather think this must have been a Walport video-cassette as it was a few years old when I saw it. As far as I remember the book version has the hero shovelling coal to get steam pressure, then running up to the wheelhouse to steer the ship; can't remember how that went in the film.

[BobClay]

The Wreck of the Mary Deare written by Hammond Innes who wrote quite a few in a nearly sixty year career. The fiction shelves at the library used to have a shelf more or less dedicated to him.

[Pat Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Makko

Which of the Isle of Man Steam Packet boats was used in the Barbra Streisand movie Yentl? It was about the end of 1982.

It is the Manxman Dave. You can make out the name if you do a bit of jiggery pokery with a picture editor like Irfanview.
Regards,
Pat

[BobClay]

Ok here's one for the Geordies. Michael Caine getting a bit cobby with George Sewell and Ian Hendry in 'Get Carter.'

Wallsend Ferry and Esso Hibernia in the background.

https://www.getcarter.xyz/wp-content...h27m22s044.jpg

[Chadburn]

Originally Posted by BobClay

When I was a kid I was made up with the film version of Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck as Ahab. The other sea going film that impressed me was 'A Night to Remember' about the Titanic. Of course, being a kid and living the Midlands at the time I didn't know sh*t from a biscuit about ships, but I've seen both those films since and I'm still impressed by them.

The vessel used in the Gregory Peck version of Moby Dick was moored in Scarborough Harbour for a few years, she was the same vessel used in the film Treasure Island, the ' Hispaniola' was bought by Scarborough Council after that film was completed and moored alongside Vincent Pier as a floating Aquarium with tanks full of exotic fish not local to Scarborough (not at that time anyway), the Grid she sat on is still there. When she was sold on for the film 'Moby Dick' Tees Towing Tugs were used for the the Towing requirements which included the Whales, the Tug that was used was the 33year old VTE 'Kings Cross'.
There were two Whales used each 75ft long and were not an easy Tow for the Tug Crew, one broke free and after hours of searching was found aground in a Cove, the other was never seen again.

[Islay]

On the smaller screen, The Tales of Para Handy (BBC series) featured the Clyde puffer, the
"Vital Spark" ... whose final resting place is a quay in Inveraray on Loch Fyne.