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HMS Gannet before restoration in 4 dock Copied from my slide, using D700 using a Nikon Slide copier screwed onto my Sigma 50mm macro lens
When Gannet was put into this dock, those who undertook the job did not listen to advice given by the experienced dockyard mateys in that when going on to the docking blocks, the vessel should be ballasted so she goes down stern first - they totally ignored this, and started to tow her in with a tractor pulling a line around a square bollard - i could see that the line was about to break, and moved people away before it went with a bang! Then, as Gannet was eventually lined up with the plumb line, the water was released from the dock, and as she hit the first of the docking blocks, and before the 'cowboys' put in the docking poles, over she went, damaging the bilge keel amongst other things
Gannet is a composite vessel, sail or Steam, steel frame, wooden plates.
HMS Gannet before restoration in 4 dock Copied from my slide, using D700 using a Nikon Slide copier screwed onto my Sigma 50mm macro lens
When Gannet was put into this dock, those who undertook the job did not listen to advice given by the experienced dockyard mateys in that when going on to the docking blocks, the vessel should be ballasted so she goes down stern first - they totally ignored this, and started to tow her in with a tractor pulling a line around a square bollard - i could see that the line was about to break, and moved people away before it went with a bang! Then, as Gannet was eventually lined up with the plumb line, the water was released from the dock, and as she hit the first of the docking blocks, and before the 'cowboys' put in the docking poles, over she went, damaging the bilge keel amongst other things
Gannet is a composite vessel, sail or Steam, steel frame, wooden plates.