Historic steam crane Boele 8 (Est. 1945) - Droogdok Jan Blanken (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Historical steam crane Boele 8 (Est. 1945) that could run on rails along the dry dock Jan Blanken. Placed at the Dok years ago from the Boele shipyard in Bolnes but has no further connection with the Dok except for a nice object along the Dok. The crane does have a steam certificate, but it is no longer suitable for hoisting where there is a regular need in the Dry Dock and instead a mobile crane is hired.
The steam crane has been relocated at the Mechanical Heritage Center (MEC) in Dronten since October 2016.
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Hellevoetsluis - Droogdok Jan Blanken - Fortresse Holland
Droogdok Jan Blanken - the Dry dock Jan Blanken is a national monument built for the Dutch navy between 1798 and 1822 (architect Jan Blanken) in Hellevoetsluis for the construction and maintenance of ships. Equipped with new techniques such as a pump house (rebuilt in 2001, now a restaurant) with a James Watt steam engine and hundreds of piles were driven into the ground for the dock foundation. The dock has a ship door (type of lock, French invention), and devided in a maintenance and construction section, the walls of which are constructed as an amphitheater to facilitate easy ship maintenance. The naval frigate Euridice was the first ship to be docked.
After the departure of the Dutch Navy until 1970, in operation, completely restored in 2005, and now a museum with the still fully functioning dock for maintenance on ships.
See: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droogdok_Jan_Blanken.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #history #steamcrane #museum #Droogdok #Hellevoetsluis #NL
Historic steam crane Boele 8 (Est. 1945) - Droogdok Jan Blanken (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Historical steam crane Boele 8 (Est. 1945) that could run on rails along the dry dock Jan Blanken. Placed at the Dok years ago from the Boele shipyard in Bolnes but has no further connection with the Dok except for a nice object along the Dok. The crane does have a steam certificate, but it is no longer suitable for hoisting where there is a regular need in the Dry Dock and instead a mobile crane is hired.
The steam crane has been relocated at the Mechanical Heritage Center (MEC) in Dronten since October 2016.
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Hellevoetsluis - Droogdok Jan Blanken - Fortresse Holland
Droogdok Jan Blanken - the Dry dock Jan Blanken is a national monument built for the Dutch navy between 1798 and 1822 (architect Jan Blanken) in Hellevoetsluis for the construction and maintenance of ships. Equipped with new techniques such as a pump house (rebuilt in 2001, now a restaurant) with a James Watt steam engine and hundreds of piles were driven into the ground for the dock foundation. The dock has a ship door (type of lock, French invention), and devided in a maintenance and construction section, the walls of which are constructed as an amphitheater to facilitate easy ship maintenance. The naval frigate Euridice was the first ship to be docked.
After the departure of the Dutch Navy until 1970, in operation, completely restored in 2005, and now a museum with the still fully functioning dock for maintenance on ships.
See: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droogdok_Jan_Blanken.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #history #steamcrane #museum #Droogdok #Hellevoetsluis #NL