Hey guys!
A big thank you for all your contributions. They have been a real enrichment for me.
So I'm not the only one in this crazy world who had similar ideas, except that back then I just scribbled them down on paper. . . Amazing! 👍👍👍😊😊
Have a great day, everyone,
your Michel-C.

Good morning, all ship modelers.

I'm adding the Ramform Titan to this list.
It fits right into this topic thanks to its highly original, atypical shape. It looks just like a bow; it's truly strange.
However, it's certainly not a failed project; it's a highly specialized vessel, created specifically for a single purpose.

The Ramform Titan is a marine seismic survey vessel built in 2013 by the MHI shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan. Its stern beam is 70 meters, making it the widest ship class in the world.

The RAMFORM TITAN (IMO 9629885, MMSI 258070000) currently sails under the flag of Norway.

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The third ship on this list is:

City of Rotterdam.

It is listed only because of the unique shape of its bow, which is truly unusual.

CITY OF ROTTERDAM (IMO: 9473468) is a Ro-Ro Cargo and is sailing under the flag of Panama. Her length overall (LOA) is 139.99 meters and her width is 22.4 meters.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:461962/mmsi:372002000/

The second ship on this new list has a highly original shape due to its numerous antennas.

Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin (Russian: Космонавт Юрий ГагаЀин) was a Soviet spacecraft, or Vigilship (Veladora), dedicated to monitoring and detecting satellite communications. Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program. The ship also conducted research in the upper atmosphere and in space.
It had a highly recognizable appearance thanks to its two extremely large parabolic antennas and two smaller ones, located on the upper part of the hull.
In 1986, the Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin was the world's largest communications ship and the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships significantly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.
In 1975, the ship was part of the joint Soviet-American Apollo-Soyuz test program.
The communications ships belonged to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The maritime part was responsible for navigation in the Baltic and Black Seas. The ships had bases in Ukraine (the Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin and the other surveillance ship, the Akademik Sergei Korolev), but after the fall of the Soviet Union, they were transferred to Ukraine, ending their role in spaceflight.
The ship was sold for scrap shortly after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, along with the Akademik Sergei Korolev.

Kosmonavt Jurij Gagarin - Wikipedia

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Maybe Steve, if that's okay. Thanks so much in advance.

Ok Alessandro, the next time that I see the model at one of our Regattas, I will have to take a few photos and see if I can sort out how to download them on ??.🤔😐.

Thanks you very much Steve.

A round shape in the water is difficult to steer and has trouble maintaining a straight course. But we modelers can cheat a little. The presence of a large rudder (as you, Steve, discovered), perhaps very long in the neutral position, can act as a keel.

I'm back.
Just been on our members WhatsApp site and the model was built by Michael Johnston a x member of the York Model Boat Club and was acquired by John White, who says that it has only two motors & propellers and has a large perspex rudder for helping with the steering. That's about all I know so sorry. 🙄 l suppose it is classed as a stand off scale model, but certainly a very unusual ship..

Thank you very much Steve.

Meeting and talking with very original model makers is a real blessing.

Sorry, I was a bit too engaged in sailing my own boats to remember, but I am sure that he had it sailing on the lake for a while ??
I will have to make some enquiries with the club's main member ( one who knows everything) 😁😁.and I will let you know. I start reading all sorts on here and finish up with a half drunk cup of tea or a very late night before getting to bed 😴😴.