The new Lady Alma
Following on from yesterdays post and 25 years later here’s the latest tug to bear the name Lady Alma, she was re named in 2008 ‘Svitzer Alma’, Seen here early on a December morning bathed in sunlight.
Last signs of Life
Here’s a shot of the busy fabrication shop at Richard Dunston shipbuilders in Hessle, East Yorkshire taken in the late 1980’s when the yard had a healthy order book. Dunston’s finally closed in 1993 and was then used as a shipping wharf until recently, with most of the site buildings finding other uses. Business ceased [...]
Winter Winter go away!
Traveling over the Humber Bridge yesterday I noticed that another landmark has disappeared from the Humber bank, the last remaining gantry crane has been dismantled at the former Richard Dunston shipyard (bottom picture). I made a detour and took a few images of the partially demolished fabrication shop which I will post later in the [...]
Wow what a Sky
Two Humber Tugs make their way through the lock at King George dock in Hull to head out to the open water of the river humber. D200 12mm f8 @ 1/6000, ISO 125. B&W conversion Nik Silver Efex
A Sign of the Economic times?
The chartered ferry ‘Norcape’ heads up the river humber bound for Rotterdam on a sunny summer evening in 2007. Since this picture was taken the ferry was ‘laid up’ in early 2009 due to lack of trade. Its also interesting to note the cargos of building bricks stacked on the dockside, UK imports and exports [...]
River Trials
Heres a couple of images of the trawler ‘Hill Cove’ being ushered out of Hull’s Albert Dock by the mooring tug ‘Keelman’ into the river humber. The vessel would have been in the port for refitting and servicing work and as such would undertake a river trial to check its various systems were working correctly [...]
Another one slips past
Caledonian MacBrayne ferry Loch Ranza slides down the slipway at RIchard Dunston shipyard in Hessle, East Yorkshire, on a dark wet evening in the late 1980s. I have quite a few of these ship launch photographs in my archive, this ones not as dramatic as the side launch images I blogged a few months ago, [...]
The Dry Side
This picture shows the ‘Dry Side’ of the old St Andrews Dock in Hull. Taken around 1990 all of the buildings are now gone (apart from one, any guesses?), including the modern building on the far right, a bowling alley that only lasted about 20 years An earlier post shows the capstan to the right [...]
Salvageman returns to the Humber
22 June 1984, the United Towing tug Salvageman returns from the Falkland Islands to her home port Hull on the river Humber. Despite being in the middle of summer I remember this as a very cold and wet day, but very enjoyable, of course you don’t really realize at the time but your recording a [...]
Blast From The Past – Grimsby Docks
I’m fascinated by old buildings,especially when unkept and coming to the end of their life. These images taken in August show the architecture of Grimsby Fish docks, the area very much past its heyday since the loss for the fishing fleet in the 1070′s and early 80′s. More on Flickr
