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Riverdance Photos
« on: February 03, 2008, 12:06:27 PM »
Hi All
Have just added some photos of the Riverdance aground off Blackpool
Regards Alan  http://www.shipsofthemersey.photos.me.uk/c1452015.html  


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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2008, 04:38:49 PM »
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Have just added some photos of the Riverdance aground off Blackpool
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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2008, 04:44:16 PM »
Hi Rob

Yes, the formatting was screwed up as the original poster must have carried out a Preview - I found they work by using cut and paste  :lol:

http://www.shipsofthemersey.photos.me.uk/c1452015.html


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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 06:01:43 PM »
Nice one thanks for sharing. Here my gloomy efforts of the Riverdance from today 03/02/08 http://shipcanal.fotopic.net/c1308319.html

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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2008, 07:47:13 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2008, 07:06:41 PM »
I agree Gwil it does look like its at a worse angle than in the previous photos.
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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2008, 07:19:51 PM »
Managed a few more today in the sun. Looks like she's gonna be here for a little longer. http://shipcanal.fotopic.net/c1308319.html

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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2008, 10:06:42 PM »
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Managed a few more today in the sun. Looks like she's gonna be here for a little longer. http://shipcanal.fotopic.net/c1308319.html

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Hi John

Nice shots - I was reading a report that all of the vehicles have now been removed from the ship, evidently simply by cutting their retaining chains and letting them fall onto the beach! - Now that mus have been some sight  :-o

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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #8 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

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« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2008, 08:56:34 AM »
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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

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Hi Alan

Great collection of photographs with some fine detail of how the ship lies and also the state of the cargo. I suppose the Riverdance now rivals Blackpool Tower as the biggest tourist attraction  :-)

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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2008, 10:49:16 AM »
A few more riverdance shots with smit salvors at work
http://www.shipsofthemersey.photos.me.uk/c1457337.html
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« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2008, 07:49:54 PM »
On the trampics-photo you can see the bones of another wreck in the foreground. Here`s the story:
In the very foreground you see the bones of the 3 masted barque "Abana" which grounded here in Dec 1894. The ship had set sail from Liverpool bound for Florida on Dec 21. Bad weather forced the ship to shelter off the Manx coast. This afternoon the lookout on the north pier sighted the ship, drifting in a north-westerly direction, with her sails torn to ribbons and was evidently unmanageable. She grounded close to the cliffs at Little Bispham shortly after 5 o

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Re: Riverdance Photos
« Reply #12 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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Re: Abana
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2008, 09:17:27 AM »
Thanks for the story Timsen, Did a google and found this link with more about the above and some picys of the unfortunate Abana

http://www.booths44.freeserve.co.uk/shipwrec.htm :-)

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Re: Abana
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2008, 12:19:50 PM »
Hi Mindmeld,
the blackpoolgazette.co.uk also published a supplement on this issue:
http://www2.blackpooltoday.co.uk/shipwreck/

 

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