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Just near the ferry crossing at Corran on Loch Linnhe we see here yet another reminder of days past when the fishing fleet would have been very busy around here..
56/365 | Usually, I follow the rules and stay in line, so I'm conflicted about whether I should wreck this Keri Smith journal like she says. Or, be a rebel and treat it like a precious object. I'm thinking doing what I'm told this time will be more fun (therapeutic).
Corpach Wreck .
Built in 1975, this ship was originally named as MV Dayspring and laterally as Golden Harvest. In her prime she was an excellent fishing vessel returning many a herring and mackerel before a raiser chain failure during a heavy storm on the 8th of December 2011 caused her to run ashore, she has been here ever since admiring the view of Ben Nevis..
see also mvdayspring.co.uk for the history of this ship
Location: Magherclogher Beach, Bunbeg, County Donegal.
This old wreck beached on Magherclogher Beach, Bunbeg, Co.Donegal, in the early 70s. Here it has remained, to become a tourist attraction and is known locally as 'Bád Eddie' (Eddie's Boat).
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Off the M275 Hampshire. On the way back, I could not resist taking though the gap in the fence that opens to the shore.
I took this photo about a year ago and have been reworking it.
Now then, should I clone out the half wreck on the far left hand side? Or, maybe crop it out? Or just leave it?
MV Dayspring - built in 1975, an excellent fishing vessel bringing mackerel and herring. Renamed Golden Harvest by new owners and her last voyage under her own power was in 2001. She was left moored for several years at Kinlochleven Pier, but due to a chain failure during a heavy storm she ran aground near the Corpach Sea Lock on the 8th December 2011 and has lain there ever since.
Ben Nevis in the background.
Manipulated to place water in image.
Well known wreck at Dell Quay, Chichester Harbour.
Test shot with my brand new Canon 17-40mm f4 L lens. got rid of my 2nd hand Siggy 12-24, it was so soft (especially on the right hand side) I never really used it.
This is an old photo of a head-on train wreck between two steam locomotives. Wrecked Crashed Met Nosed Kissed
Many passers by on the coastal walk make use of the flickr boat ;-) Just snapped this while passing by :-)
Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833 - 1870.
This great poet, recognised as one of Australia’s greatest, was born in the Azores to English parents in 1833. But by the time he was twenty his father was exasperated with Adam’s hedonistic lifestyle which was frowned upon in Victorian England. Adam Gordon senior secured a position for young Adam with the SA government and Adan Lindsay Gordon arrived at Port Adelaide in 1853. Adam was tall, handsome, moody, and reckless but an excellent horseman and rider. He was appointed as a police trooper at Penola for two years and then from 1855 he broke horses around the Mt Gambier district with some financial backing from this father. In 1857 Adam met Father Tenison Woods and began reading poetry with him. When his mother died in 1859 he received a legacy of £7,000 which he received in 1861. Although profligate with his money he was comfortable with his winnings from steeple chases and horse breaking of thoroughbreds. In 1862 he married Margaret Park a girl of 17 years who was also an excellent horsewoman. So in 1864 he bought Dingley Dell cottage for their home. The cottage was located at Port MacDonnell where he had lived and when the ship the Admella sank at Cape Northumberland in 1859 with the loss of 89 lives Adam was deeply affected by it. In 1869 he wrote a poem about it entitled the Ride from the Wreck. Around 1864 Adam speculated with land investments that failed and this seemed to increase his reckless horse riding exploits. His famous leap over the edge of the Blue Lake at Mt Gambier occurred in July 1864. The monument to this daring feat was erected on that spot in 1887. In January 1865 he was elected to the SA parliament whilst he kept publishing poems and some stories. He became a good friend of John Riddoch of Yallum Park near Penola once he attended parliament. His time in parliament provoked him into more poetry publishing, horse riding and racing and land speculation in Western Australia as well as South Australia. In 1867 he moved to a residence in Mt Gambier for a short time. He published several poems that year and then moved to Ballarat. He rented Craig’s hotel livery stables but his idealism and lack of business acumen soon delivered financial failure. His pretty little Ballarat Cottage is now located in the Ballarat Botanic Gardens. He left Ballarat at the end of 1868 and moved to Melbourne. He continued racing horses and in 1870 had a serious fall whilst racing at Flemington race course. He never fully recovered but managed to publish two works in mid-1870 Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. When he got the account for publishing the two books he realised he had insufficient money to pay the publishers and he took his own life in June 1870. Although the newspapers speculated he was an alcoholic his friends were all adamant that he seldom drank but he was subject to depression and melancholy. He was buried in the Brighton cemetery in Melbourne and his friends erected a monument on his grave in October 1870. Sadly his prowess as a poet was mainly recognised after his death. In 1932 a statue of him was erected near Parliament House in Melbourne. In 1934 a bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon was placed in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey the Australian poet to have such recognition. British composer Edward Elgar set several of Adam’s poem to music, Queen Elizabeth II quoted lines from one of his poems in her 1992 Christmas broadcast and Australian Post released a stamp honouring Adam Lindsay Gordon in 1970. In 2014 he was inducted into the Australia Jumps Racing Association Gallery of Champions. On his statue in Melbourne are four of his lines:
Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone —
Kindness in another's trouble.
Courage in your own.
Below are some lines from the Ride from the Wreck (of the Admella.)
Look sharp. A large vessel lies jamm’d on the reef,
And many on board still, and some wash’d on shore.
Ride straight with the news—they may send some relief
From the township; and we—we can do little more.
You, Alec, you know the near cuts; you can cross
"The Sugarloaf" ford with a scramble, I think;
Don’t spare the blood filly, nor yet the black horse;
Should the wind rise, God help them! the ship will soon sink.
Old Peter’s away down the paddock, to drive
The nags to the stockyard as fast as he can—
A life and death matter; so, lads, look alive.’
Im Gonna Wreck It! (complete) I work for The Lego Group and what little time I have when its slow I spent working on this.
Looking north.
First, this is not the big famous one where the Train of the Goddesses sheared off the front of the Main Street Depot. I wrote about that this blog: railfan44.blogspot.com/2013/10/downers-grove-depot-front-...
This wreck happened in August 1965. I woke up on Friday August 27 an somehow heard that there was a wreck on the CB&Q about 1/2 mile from my house in Westmont, IL. It was actually just west of the Maple Ave. grade crossing in eastern Downers Grove (a couple of blocks west of the Fairview Ave. commuter stop). Grabbed my camera and found what these 11 photographs show. The photos are in the sequence taken. Clearly the morning Dinkey rush didn't occur. All the cars that stayed on the rails were gone. The wreck was between the the home signals of the four crossovers used mainly for express Dinkeys to cross over off or on the middle track. Here is the Google view: www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B047'44.0%22N+88%C2%B000'...
I have added very few comments to the photos. I never did learn anything about the wreck, e.g., cause and direction of the train.
This happened in Nashville, Tennessee in what is now an upper class neighborhood. Two trains hit head on and killed101 people. Possibly the worst train wreck in US history. Zoom in and look at the crowd that came to see the wreckage. It seems that everybody is wearing a hat, as was the custom in those days. This picture was taken by a newspaper photographer whose name is not known. The picture is public domain.
RNLB LIFEBOAT NAMED NORTH FORELAND (CIVIL SERVICE No11 AT THE ROYAL CHATHAM DOCKYARD IN AN EAST LONDON BOROUGH SUBURB HISTORICAL VENUE KENT ENGLAND DENNIS PRICE COXSWAIN WAS AWARDED THE RNLI SILVER MEDAL IN 1952 FOR RESCUING TWO MEN CLING TO THE RIGGING OF A WRECKED SAILING BARGE IN THE THAMES ESTUARY.
WATSON TWIN SCREW LIFEBOAT 1951. STATIONED AT MARGATE AND IN RELIEF FLEET.
LAUNCHED 395 TIMES
SAVED 216 LIVES DSCN0671