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Name:RFA Tidespring
Namesake:RFA Tidespring
Ordered:February 2012
Builder:DSME
Laid down:December 2014
Launched:April 2015
In service:27 November 2017
MO number: 9655535
MMSI number: 235109357
Callsign: GXRG
Pennant number: A136
Class and type:Tide-class fast fleet tanker
Displacement:37,000 t (36,000 long tons)
Length:200.9 m (659 ft 1 in)
Beam:28.6 m (93 ft 10 in)
Draft:10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:CODELOD
Speed:27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range:18,200 nautical miles (33,700 km; 20,900 mi)
Complement:63 plus 46 non-crew embarked persons (Royal Marines, flight crew, trainees)
Title: Aerial views of city, New Orleans dock Lower Left
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall
Date: 1955
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photographs
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12.7 x 7.6 cm.
Form/Genre: Photographs; Photographic prints; Gelatin silver prints; Contract prints; Contact sheets
File: ag1982_0234_4133_4_opt.jpg
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When we arrived back in Duluth, we were pleased to find an ore train unloading on the dock.
CN R921, a Duluth Dock crew reverses up the dock as they unload their train with IC 6253/CN 5244/IC 6263 for power. The St Louis Bay and Superior, Wisconsin can be seen in the background.
A view of Pembroke Dock station, scanned from an acquired Agfachrome slide, taken on 12 April 1986. Thankfully it has appeared to have changed little since then; the battered lighting column has gone, as has the K8 telephone box and I bet that there were some interesting Silcox buses in the surrounding streets back then too........
Dumped outside at the Workington Dock & Harbour loco shed on 23rd August 1969 was Yorkshire Engine 0-4-0 saddle tank 'No.70' (Works No.2602 built in 1955).
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The tanker Algoma Hansa and an unidentified boat sit docked in Sarnia, Ontario, along the St. Clair River. The Canadian-flagged tanker was built in 1998 in Mobile, Alabama. The image was made from the Port Huron side of the river and is looking across where the Black River joints the St. Clair.
Barry Docks, once a thriving port having the distinction of being the largest coal exporting port in the world in 1913, has nowadays pretty much entered into a terminal decline since the cessation of coal exports from Wales in the 1960's and the demise of the Geest bananas ships in the 1980's The railway embankments have now all been removed for the Waterfront development (seen behind) and a great deal of railway track serving the docks has gone. It is indeed sad that there is nothing to commemorate this once very important coal exporting port. As Tom Clemmet's says in his history of Barry - "All have been victims of progress with no thought of preserving anything for posterity. In fact if it wasn't for the expanse of water left, one could be forgiven for not knowing that Barry Docks was once a port known throughout the world"-www.barrywales.co.uk/tomclemett/disappearing3.asp
It is not all doom and gloom though. Barry Docks is still a key facility for the region's chemical industry, handling liquid bulks for major companies mainly for Dow Corning. Situated on a 160-acre site, Dow Corning's Plant at Barry is one of the most modern and technically advanced chemicals facilities in the world, and the company’s single largest European plant. Container traffic to the Docks was introduced in 1998, which meant that the quayside lines at No2 Dock were brought back into use, the first time since grain traffic ceased in the early 1980's. Hence, the Docks now has an inter-modal railway facility for container transportation by rail to UK deep-sea hub ports. Chemical vessels for Dow Corning use the port on a regular basis and there is a daily train carrying chemicals to and from Barry to Newport ADJ or from the Wembley Freight Operations centre.
Departing the port having discharged her cargo of petro-chemicals at the Dow Corning plant near No2 dock is Bomar Quest (formerly Eships Quest), a chemical tanker registered in the Marshall Islands. Built in 2003, she is owned by Anglo Eastern ship management Singapore and has a gross tonnage of 5,570 tons.
All photos in this album were taken during a sailing passage from Iceland to Scotland via the Faroe Islands arranged by Rubicon 3. Sailing took place on Bluejay a Clipper 60 race boat. The Captain was Patrick Van der Zijden and the First Mate was Alex Booth. Including myself there were eight crew members. You can learn more about Rubicon 3 and their sailing adventures at www.rubicon3.co.uk.
Taken from the top of a hydraulic platform during a Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service exercise at Gloucester Docks.
The right hand section of the illuminated track diagram suspended from the roof in Ely Dock Junction signal box. Thursday 14th November 1991
Ely Dock Junction signal box was located by the Up Main line in the v of the junction between the Soham branch from Newmarket and the Cambridge to King's Lynn line, and was a London & North Eastern Railway Company type 11a design that opened in 1928 fitted with an 82 lever Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company Limited A2 frame (frame number 10007) replacing an earlier signal box located on the down side of the line a short distance closer Ely railway station. A British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch signalling console was scheduled to be commissioned on 19th January 1985 in conjunction with the closure of Waterbeach signal box but the resignalling was postponed, it was commissioned on 2nd February 1985 controlling emergency replacement of 245, 246, 248, 249 and 252 signals. The signal box closed on 11th April 1992 and was demolished in late April 1992 with signalling between Hiams level crossing and Ely Station North passing to Cambridge signal box on 4th May 1992 after remodelling of the Ely station area
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Rusty old dock junk.
Grand Haven MI.
Government Basin, summer 1986
Minolta X-370, MD Rokker 50mm F1.7
Ektachrome 100
Copyright; Bigrock Photo Est.1984
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This long dock on Goose Lake in Isanti County will soon be packed away for the winter. The longer the folks who own this dock wait to take it in, the more difficult the job becomes. I know this from experience.
When my parents retired from the home farm in southwestern Minnesota to Serpent Lake near Deerwood, there were two jobs I detested to help dad with even though I lived in Crosby, just several miles away.
My dad was in his early 70s when he and his first and last wife moved off the farm. He began his retirement years dangling his feet in the water, snoozing on his pontoon while pretending to fish and planting a garden big enough to feed Vietnam. Since he was still active and in full possession of most of his youthful muscles, his calls for help on jobs around his place were not as frequent as they would become in the next few years.
But there were two jobs he always needed help with each spring and fall. One was putting his pontoon into and out of the water in the spring and fall and the other involved moving his dock in and out of the water at the same times.
Both jobs under dad’s oversight were like waking up in China one morning and trying to speak to people around you. Every year the experience was different as dad had us try different methods, hoping to hit on one that was quick and easy. He died without ever tasting success.
However, the job that rubbed my brain cells raw was helping him put the dock in each spring and taking it out each fall. Normally there was help as one of my citified brothers or brother-in-law would make an unfortunate trip to the lake and get recruited.
Early in dad’s retirement, he would often wait until mid-October to ask us to take the dock out. Normally he would choose the coldest day with northwest winds that would bring waves up and over the tops of the hip boots as well as numb our tender office-job hands.
The bigger irritation though was dad would revert to the relationship he had with us boys when we ere kids and no matter how we leveled the dock in the spring it was not level nor did we tighten the bolts enough. Every step in the fall when we removed the dock he supervised us in excruciating detail with repetitive instructions. The only saving grace for us grown boys is dad’s hearing had diminished enough that he could not really hear what we were muttering although I think he probably had an idea.
I am now the age my dad was during those times and I often sorely wish I could do the job one more time with him.
(Photographed near Goose Lake, Isanti County, MN)
Caesar's Casino in Windsor, Canada glows and reflects on the Detroit River, stretching half a mile to the Yorktown docked at Port Detroit.
The Yorktown is an American coastal cruise vessel: www.greatlakescruising.com/yorktown/
PKP 'Ol49' class 2-6-2 No.111 sits at Wrocław Docks with a train of general purpose vans on 28th April 2006.
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A cargo vessel named Putford Trader at Great Yarmouth docks.
Found this in the marinetraffic.com website:
Vessel's Details
Ship Type: Cargo
Year Built: 1976
Length x Breadth: 64 m X 13 m
DeadWeight: 950 t
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 5.8 / 5.6 knots
Flag: United Kingdom [UK]
Call Sign: GBDW
IMO: 7407740, MMSI: 235134000
Taken in 2006.
An odd-looking boat at a dock near the Longfellow Bridge on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. Boston is in the background.
Title: Docks. Galveston, Tex.
Date: ca. 1911
Part Of: Eric Steinfeldt collection of maritime views
Place: Galveston, Galveston County, Texas
Physical Description: 1 photomechanical print (postcard)
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The dry dock on the left was where the illfated liner 'The Titanic' was built in Belfast. The bottom of the picture shows an old railway sleeper which ran from the docks into Belfast City centre in the early 20th Century bringing raw materials. On the right is pump house. The background shows one of Harland and Wolffs cranes.