My Saturday With The Queen

This weekend I went to visit a ship on Saturday and Sunday. The same ship. It is an old, Portugese-made ship named the "Queensway" which used to carry 1,000,000 barrels of oil around but is now going to be converted into storage for oil which will be pumped out of a Vietnamese oil field. On Saturday, I went for a comprehensive inspection and tour of the ship.

Going to the ship with people from my office:The view out the back, with downtown Singapore in the distance.
Lounge time.
An empty containership owned by my company.

A giant, empty, Japanese bulk carrier. This ship usually carries ore. Lots of it.Finally, the Queensway! She is almost totally empty and the little ship alongside is pumping fuel out of her.
Oh hey, she's a Liberian-registered ship. Can Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf say "flag of convenience" anyone?
As you can see, the ship is a little long in the tooth (I believe she was built in 1991).
We have to climb up that gangway to get on board. The ship is painted red, but you can see the streaks of rust on the hull, as well as black marks where other ships coming alongside, such as tugs, have left their imprint.

So this is the view from the bridge. For scale, you see those little red dots on the deck? People.
Note that the Portugese designers thought that it was a good idea to put a swimming pool on the ship. Not a big swimming pool, and a swimming pool filled with salt water, but better than no swimming pool. Apparently you are also allowed to have beer on board as well--but BBQs are strictly forbidden.
This is the "bunker barge" alongside pumping the leftover fuel out of the ship.
BIG.

This is the engine. It is 6 cylinders, each about a meter wide and two + meters tall. Again, big. Where's the oil at? Do I look like a Republican or what?