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PIGEON HOUSE, RIVINGTON - 1910

28/4/2016

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The Pigeon House photographed late evening on 12 March 2016. 

This was built in 1910 for Lord Leverhulme as part of his vast ornamental gardens on the side of Rivington Pike. 

It is built in gritstone and is four storeys high each storey having a single room accessed by a semicircular stair turret on the West side. 

The lowest level is the entrance which is cut into the hillside, the first and second floors were dovecote's each having light chamfered mullion windows and dove holes in the external wall with landing places for the birds.  

The third floor was designed as a sitting room and has windows on the North & South sides, it is said that Lady Leverhulme used this floor as a sewing room. 

The tower fell into disrepair in the 1970's but was repaired in the 1980's.

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REGAIN

26/4/2016

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Regain photographed pulling barges up the River Thames on 25 April 2016.

I took the photograph during my lunch break whilst I was in the city on a training course at the nearby Grange Hotel.

She was built in 1996 in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands and delivered to Cory Environmental PLC in December 1997.

Overall she is 26.5m long with a 9.4m beam and 2.3m draft.

GT = 138.

She is equipped with two 8 cylinder Caterpillar 3508B-DITA (1616 bhp- 1200kW @ 1300rpm) marine diesel engines giving a service speed of 12.6 knots and a bollard pull of 17.5t.

Cory Environmental were founded in 1896 and are a large waste disposal company based on the UK. They operate from more than 30 locations around the UK providing services in the collection, recycling and disposal of waste.

MMSI - 235053647
REG -  UK, London
IMO - 9167992
Call Sign - MXOE5
Tug
Built - Delta Shipyard, Sliedrecht
Yard No. - 
L 26.5m W 9.4m
GT 138
Year - 1997
London, 25 April 2016

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LINE UP AT FAWLEY

23/4/2016

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I took this picture from the Red Funnel ferry on our way to the Isle of Wight for a weeks holiday on 4 April 2015.

Ships berthed are Hanne Knutsen, Frank, Philipp Essberger and Houyoshi Express II.

My ship list is struggling in 2016 as I have not been able to get to Liverpool.

I have however seen a couple of vessels whilst on overnight business trips to London and this week at Eccles whilst crossing the bridge across the Manchester Shop Canal I saw the General Cargo ship Nestor (IMO 9390123, 2008) being loaded with scrap metal.
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FUNNEL - SAGA CRUISES

20/4/2016

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Saga cruises started operations in 1996.

They are part of the much larger Saga PLC group which was founded by Sidney De Haan in 1959.

Photograph was of the Saga Sapphire (IMO 7822457, GT 37012, 1981) taken 5 April 2015 as she sailed past me in East Cowes before heading out of the Solent on the start of a cruise.
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SALFORD DOCKS - DETROIT BRIDGE - 1942

19/4/2016

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Detroit Bridge photographed on 13 April 2016. I visited the bridge on a bright and sunny lunchtime from one of our offices a short walk away.

The bridge used to be a twin-track railway bridge, one of a number of swing bridges spanning across the Manchester Ship Canal. It was built in 1942 and replaced a single-track rail swing bridge built in 1895.

The bridge weighs approximately 300 tonnes and was built by Dorman Long. It is 80m long, 9m wide and over 10m high above deck level.

With the decline of dock industry in Salford, the bridge became redundant in 1981. It was refurbished in 1988 and floated to its current location to start a new life as a pedestrian bridge across one of the docks. The refurbishment included installation of a hardwood timber deck for use by pedestrians together with the removal of all the mechanical equipment.

The bridge was refurbished again in 2005 at a cost of £500,000. The decking was replaced with non-slip GRP planks and the bridge was repainted.

An interesting feature is the addition of an observation deck below its redundant pivot in the middle of the canal basin, this is accessed by curved staircases on both sides.
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FUNNEL - Ostensjo REDERI

14/4/2016

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Ostensjo Rederi are based in Haugesund, Norway and have been operating since 1973.

They operate both tug and offshore services including ROV Survey, cable laying, trenching, heavy lift, module handling and removal operations.

Ship photographed was the Lomax (IMO 96578322, GT 426, 2012) at Fawley on 4 April 2015.
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TWISTER - 1839 - 1852

12/4/2016

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I saw this painting in a pub on the Isle of Wight in October 2015. The painting was on three pieces of hardwood board that had been fastened together to form a rough canvas. Over the last 164 years the boards have moved / shrunk splitting the picture into three.
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WIGHT RYDER I

7/4/2016

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Wightlink's ferry Wight Ryder I photographed alongside in Portsmouth on the 7 April 2015.

I took the photograph from her sister ship Wight Ryder II as we came into Portsmouth for the day after taking the short 22 minute sailing across the Solent from Ryde on the Isle of Wight.  

She was the first of Wightlink's new purpose built high speed passenger catmarans to operate the Ryde to Portsmouth route replacing FastCat Ryde and FastCat Shanklin.  

Built in the Philipines by FBMA-Babcock as Yard Number 1026 she is 41m long with a 12 m beam and 1.6m draught, equipped with twin Caterpillar ACERT C32 engines she has a top speed of 26.7 knots. 

She can carry 260 passengers and has a crew of 5. 

MMSI - 235069875
REG - UK, Portsmouth
IMO - 9512537
Call Sign -  2BWG5
Passenger Ferry
Built - FBMA-Babcock, Balamban, PH
Yard No. - 1026
L 41m W 12m
GT 520
Year - 2009
Portsmouth, 7 April 2015

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WESTGATE BRIDGE, CLECKHEATON - 1848

2/4/2016

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A railway bridge near Cleckheaton in Yorkshire photographed on a cold and damp 17 February 2016.

On the evening of 22 June 1928 seven coal waggons plunged off this bridge into the street.

A coal train was being shunted into sidings to make way for the London express when a coupling broke and the waggons ran away. They crashed through the  buffers and landed on the butchers shop that once stood here totally destroying it. Miraculously no one was hurt or injured.

This bridge originally carried the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway over Westgate and connected Low Moor with Dewsbury when it opened in 1848.The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965 and to goods traffic in 1981.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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