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Shipping News and information / Re: Riverdance Photos

« on: April 11, 2008, 07:11:56 PM »

Salvage job goes to local company.

Heysham based Hancock's Contractors will undertake the task of
dismantling the Riverdance.

Tony Redding, spokesman for Seatruck Ltd, said "There are 2,600 tonnes
of steel in the structure in total. The ship will be cut up using
powerful shearing machines and the small sections will be taken away to
a recycling plant in Liverpool.

For more details of how the ship will be cut up see:

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Final-death-knell-for-Riverdance.3970830.jp

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1044927_ferry_to_be_dismantled?rss=yes

Alan

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Shipping News and information / Re: Riverdance Photos

« on: April 06, 2008, 12:33:18 AM »

I've just uploaded seven new photos that were taken on Saturday evening to http://trampics.co.uk, one showing sister ship Moondance passing by in the background on the way to Warrenpoint, the others showing the damage that has been caused to the wheelhouse roof by heavy seas.

Alan

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Shipping News and information / Re: Riverdance Photos

« on: March 05, 2008, 12:17:50 AM »

I've just uploaded eight more Riverdance photos (five taken this evening).

http://trampics.fotopic.net/c1452168_49.html

She's settled down a few more feet since the head-on shot that I took on 23rd Feb. I estimate that the superstructure's buried at least fifteen feet into the sand at the bow end now.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Passengers and crew airlifted from Riverdance

« on: February 23, 2008, 05:02:33 PM »

This photo that I took this morning shows the Riverdance now lying completely on its starboard side.
 
http://trampics.fotopic.net/p48592390.html

The starboard flying bridge, and part of the superstructure is buried beneath the sand, which I suspect will now make it very difficult to right the ship, by pumping water from the starboard to the port ballast tanks, which was meant to start today.

More recent photos here:

http://trampics.fotopic.net/c1452168_49.html

Alan

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Shipping News and information / Re: Riverdance Photos

« on: February 16, 2008, 12:19:31 AM »

Have just come across this forum, so I thought I'd share my collection of 39 photos of the Riverdance, that were taken between the 1st and 10th February, including several taken from the low water mark (outside the exclusion zone) looking back towards the land.

http://trampics.fotopic.net/c1452168.html

Included in the set is one photo showing two shipwrecks, the three masted Norwegian Barque 'Abana', that was wrecked in December 1894 on its way from Liverpool to Florida, with the Riverdance only yards away in the background.

http://trampics.fotopic.net/p48369685.html

Regards,
Alan
http://blackpooltrams.com