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 The inside of a tool box lid painted circa 1898 by Hugh Owens who was a ships carpenter.
The ship depicted is called the Hugh & Mary which may be a real vessel or perhaps one named after himself and his wife. Photographed in Liverpool Museum, 2 May 2015.
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 The Warrington Town Hall building was completed in 1750. Originally named Bank Hall, it was designed by James Gibbs and was home to wealthy local businessman, Thomas Patten.
In 1873, the building was under the ownership of Colonel Wilson Patten, later Lord Winmarleigh, he sold the building to Warrington Borough Council and the building then became the new Town Hall. Certain unique features about the hall are indicative of the trade which provided the wealth of its builder, for the whole house is built on a foundation made of moulded blocks of copper slag from the copper smelting works at Bank Quay. The window frames of the hall appear to be made of wood but in fact they are made of a combination of copper and iron and painted white. I took the photograph on a fine warm Sunday afternoon during a visit to the town. Photograph taken 19 July 2015.  Wightlink ferry St. Helen photographed laid up in Portsmouth on 7 April 2015.
She was built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders as Yard Number 535 in 1983 and was the last vessel to be launched from their Leith Shipyard. She entered service with Sealink on 28 November 1983. In 1991 she joined Wightlink and worked the Portsmouth to Fishborne route until March 2015, she was then laid up after reportedly being sold to Delcomar in Sardinia where she will be renamed Anna Mur and join her sister ship St.Catherine (now GB Conte) which was sold to the same Company in 2010. She is 77m long with a 17.2m beam and 2.48m draught and can carry 769 passengers together with 142 cars and 12 lorries. Powered by three Harland & Wolff-MAN 6ASL25 Diesel Engines she can make 12.5 knots via three Voith Schneider cyclodial propellers. Wightlink and its predecessors have been operating ferry services for over 160 years and now carry over 5,500,000 passengers, 1,200,000 cars and over 200,000 coaches and freight each year on its three routes across the Solent to the Isle of Wight. MMSI - 235031619 REG - UK, London IMO - 8130569 Call Sign - GDBB Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ships Built - Robb, Leith, UK Yard No. 535 L 77m x W 17.2m GT - 2983 Year - 1983 Portsmouth, 7 April 2015  Funnel from Discovery (IMO 7108514, GT20186, 1972) photographed in Liverpool on 11 March 2014.
She is operated by CMV (Cruise & Maritime Voyages) which was formed in 2009 by parent Company Cruise & Maritime Services International after German based Transocean Tours filed for Bankruptcy.  Doffcocker Lodge near Bolton photographed on 15 July 2015.
As part of a walk in the area we circled the lodge and stopped for a pint in a local pub before getting back to the car just after dark. The lodge was originally constructed in 1874 to supply water to a local mill and is now a nature reserve. The history of the name is not certain but it is believed to be Celtic meaning a dark winding stream. A stream which was originally dammed to form the lodge still flows into the lodge today. |
AuthorMy 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. Archives
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