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MV CHICA / liverpool @ dutton locks 2013 ..... ~ EXPLORE ~ 28thFeb
For more information / speculation / history .......... put mv chica into search engine and follow links ...................but in the meantime...briefly ... not sure how accurate this is, but it seems to have had an interesting history, to say the least.............
Built in 1894 in Christianssund Norway and named Flora, originally rigged as wooden hulled , and to haul salt fish from Northern to Southern Norway...... commandeered by the Germans at Trondheim in the second world war and renamed Bjorg Haukus , after the war she continued to trade up until the 1960's ..... 1965 .......... and she was renamed Lil Tove , the daughter of the then owner ...... time passes and she ends up in Gibraltar being sold to the Straight Shipping Co, trading in the Med. and down the West Coast of Africa / Casablanca ......renamed Chica in 1981 .... she left Gibraltar around 1983 putting into Porto ( Portugal ) before arrival at Mostyn Docks ( North Wales ), from there to Weston Point docks ( Runcorn ) and then onto the River Weaver , where she ended her days as a converted passenger vessel, finally capsizing in 1993 ( ironically / sadly just before her centenary, where she remains to this day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( 2014 ) still there in 2018 !
Explore Feb 28th 2013 Big Thanks
Jan 2014 - visited again today added a few more B&W in my River Weaver Set / album....
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Sept 2015...
........ visited again bit more disrepair
.. NOV 2016 .........still there , though a bit more distressed !
Sep 2019 ............19,155 views ............. in total , a few more pics have been added to set ( M V Chica ( Liverpool )
...... Very Big THANKS for all recent views , much appreciated , M
MV CHICA / liverpool @ dutton locks 2013 ..... ~ EXPLORE ~ 28thFeb
For more information / speculation / history .......... put mv chica into search engine and follow links ...................but in the meantime...briefly ... not sure how accurate this is, but it seems to have had an interesting history, to say the least.............
Built in 1894 in Christianssund Norway and named Flora, originally rigged as wooden hulled , and to haul salt fish from Northern to Southern Norway...... commandeered by the Germans at Trondheim in the second world war and renamed Bjorg Haukus , after the war she continued to trade up until the 1960's ..... 1965 .......... and she was renamed Lil Tove , the daughter of the then owner ...... time passes and she ends up in Gibraltar being sold to the Straight Shipping Co, trading in the Med. and down the West Coast of Africa / Casablanca ......renamed Chica in 1981 .... she left Gibraltar around 1983 putting into Porto ( Portugal ) before arrival at Mostyn Docks ( North Wales ), from there to Weston Point docks ( Runcorn ) and then onto the River Weaver , where she ended her days as a converted passenger vessel, finally capsizing in 1993 ( ironically / sadly just before her centenary, where she remains to this day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( 2014 ) still there in 2018 !
Explore Feb 28th 2013 Big Thanks
Jan 2014 - visited again today added a few more B&W in my River Weaver Set / album....
.
Sept 2015...
........ visited again bit more disrepair
.. NOV 2016 .........still there , though a bit more distressed !
Sep 2019 ............19,155 views ............. in total , a few more pics have been added to set ( M V Chica ( Liverpool )
...... Very Big THANKS for all recent views , much appreciated , M