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A written off Pilot 3, Gorleston

Great Yarmouth Pilot Vessel No 3.

 

This boat was moored in the River Yare almost opposite where the Mammoet Van Oord's Jumping Jack jack-up barge was. A passing supply vessel squashed the Pilot vessel into the harbour wall whereupon it sunk and was later retrieved and deemed a write-off! The supply vessel pilot claimed that having the Jumping Jack in the river had changed the flow of water and the supply vessel had got caught in a flow and this resulted in the accident.

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Uploaded on April 18, 2009
Taken on November 6, 2003