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Shipping News and information / Re: Woolwich Ferry

« on: November 04, 2018, 12:54:47 PM »

Anyone know for sure where the scrapyard is at le Havre?
I have an idea that it might be in the Tancarville Canal here (there's a public road opposite):
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ych85qsr

But I think that the ferries may have been parked in the "Garage de Graville":
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycfhzyee

Will the latest ais track not help? I believe they are being broken up by Gardet & de Bezenac Recycling

Photo of John burns at the location here
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/un-bac-londonien-est-arrive-au-havre-pour-y-etre-deconstruit

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Shipping News and information / Re: Woolwich Ferry

« on: November 03, 2018, 03:56:19 PM »

Has anybody managed to get photos of the three ferries at the breakers ??

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Shipping News and information / John Burns being scrapped in France - any French photographers?

« on: October 09, 2018, 12:58:05 PM »

Anybody near Le Harve able to photograph the Woolwich ferries from London being scrapped please?

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Shipping News and information / Re: QUEEN MARY to Leave Tilbury Dock tomorrow

« on: May 11, 2016, 12:02:38 PM »

Just spoke to various sources inside Tilbury Dock and they state 1500 today also

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Shipping News and information / Re: QUEEN MARY to Leave Tilbury Dock tomorrow

« on: May 09, 2016, 10:39:53 PM »

NOW CANCELLED and put back to Wednesday

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Shipping News and information / QUEEN MARY to Leave Tilbury Dock tomorrow

« on: May 09, 2016, 09:54:41 AM »

I am informed that QUEEN MARY will depart Tilbury Dock tomorrow at around 11am and enter the river by midday. She is being towed by Thames Towage tug BOSS TUG and Carmet tug VENTURE to Glasgow.

This information is yet to be confirmed by the owners of Queen Mary/PLA - I will update as soon as i can confirm later today

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Shipping News and information / Re: Tug- Lord Waverley

« on: May 09, 2016, 09:54:08 AM »

I went to look at these two last month David.  Went onboard both as they were due to be sold off very cheaply. I took photos throughout the boats, its more cosmetic and just a mess of how they were badly moored against a concrete wall and knocked about and unloved for 6 years.  They were both locked up and fully working, but do need quite a bit of work thats for sure.   Lord Waverley is actually the one in better nick!  The portside rubbing band of lord devonport is totally hanging off where she has been hitting the wall for years with no fendering, also her wheel is missing after vandals tried to strip her, but other than the wheel she is complete and starts and runs.

The current owner i was told lived abroad and has since paid mooring fees and still owns them and has decided to move them to a new mooring somewhere on the River Medway

Speedwell is towing them today looking at Ais as it says Destination Medway

Im not hopeful that anything will change when they reach there, as they haven't been touched by the owner for 6 years just left laid up and rotting sadly

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Shipping News and information / Re: Tug- Lord Waverley

« on: May 08, 2016, 07:56:41 PM »

Good photos,  the owner apparently saved them from scrap or being sold last minute literally in the last week and i heard they were told to be removed from Sandwich to a new location.   Any idea why they are at Ramsgate, are they still there and being slipped?

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Shipping News and information / Denton Slipway - Alpha

« on: December 15, 2015, 01:53:48 AM »

city cruises Alpha is currently on Denton Wlipway at Gravesend having been cut down to the hull.   

Can anybody nearby get a photograph of current rebuilding progress please?

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Shipping News and information / Re: Incat launch Galexy and Neptune clipper in Australia

« on: July 14, 2015, 12:52:24 PM »

First photo of the Galexy on trials yesterday here https://www.facebook.com/pages/One2three-Naval-Architects/585807708126620?fref=ts

They are out again on trials tomorrow for anyone nearby!

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Shipping News and information / Incat launch Galexy and Neptune clipper in Australia

« on: July 12, 2015, 06:52:26 AM »

any photos of these two? They are currently undergoing trials with Incat

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Shipping News and information / VIKING STAR at Greenwich with RT Evolution tomorrow

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:13:44 PM »

Cruise Ship VIKING STAR is due at Greenwich around 0730am tomorrow Kotugs new hybrid tug RT Evolution also

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Shipping News and information / BIBANA tug - Cameroon - mystery

« on: April 04, 2015, 11:47:47 AM »

Can anybody help with the history of this tug
https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10387408_10205277259428658_6763855832533867035_n.jpg?oh=861f29e36fa8224687c520408cb0176a&oe=55AC7200

She was hijacked by pirates last year and set on fire
http://www.camer.be/38457/11:1/cameroun-kribi-le-navire-abandonne-par-les-pirates-incendie-cameroon.html

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Shipping News and information / Re: Anybody local to Incat,Tasmania? Thames Clippers new build under construction

« on: April 01, 2015, 03:17:34 PM »

Has anybody managed to get photos yet?

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Shipping News and information / IVESTON M1151 sold to breakers at Erith

« on: March 10, 2015, 12:56:57 PM »

http://thameshighway.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/iveston-m1151-sold-to-the-breakers