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Oslo docks at about 9:30am
The skies and sun make for a great set of colours, especially when HDR processed
Falmouth Docks
Viscount Falmouth laying the foundation stone at Falmouth Docks, Cornwall - credit Falmouth Art Gallery
The development of Falmouth Docks began in 1858 and the foundation stone was laid by Viscount Falmouth in 1860 although the location of this stone is not known. The first ship to enter the docks arrived in 1861.
The Docks are currently managed and operated by A&P. At present Falmouth has three graving docks that provide up to 100,000 dwt dry dock capacity. There is a total wharfage with craneage and all other technical services, of 2.5km.
The docks are about to embark on an exciting phase of redevelopment that it is envisaged will include a world class 300 berth marina called Port Falmouth Marina. This will herald a new phase in the history of Falmouth Docks that will see new investment bringing benefits, not just for Falmouth, but the whole of Cornwall.
The regeneration plans include the provision of a new cruise liner terminal capable of accommodating the latest super cruisers. These plans are currently under assessment.
Our Falmouth port boasts one of the world’s largest natural deep-water harbours. Falmouth is the largest ship-repair complex in the UK with 3 large graving docks and extensive alongside deepwater berthing providing capacity for vessels up to 100,000 tonnes.
Offering onsite engineering, electrical, paint and fabrication workshops and links to all other specialist contractors and OEMs, these are integrated to provide a complete range of marine repair services to the customer.
As well as extensive workshop facilities across all disciplines Falmouth offers bunkering facilities, the ability to dock without gas-freeing, in-water surveys and propeller polishing.
Falmouth is a busy working port handling over 100,000T of product annually and with over 30 firms located in the docks providing a full range of services including towage, ship’s agency, area port health, diving services, local surveyors and tank washing.
Falmouth is used by 40,000+ cruise passengers annually who see Falmouth as the gateway to Cornwall. Partnerships Falmouth has many long-term shiprepair partners, including P&O, Grimaldi, Condor, Gardline, Euroships, Stena UK and the Ministry of Defence.
Dock workers relaxing on precarious metal pipe piles in a harbour yard. Shipping boats and machines behind them, the city of Valparaiso in background. Faces of workers indistinguishable
South Dock is one of only two surviving docks in Rotherhithe, to the north of Deptford, which was originally marshland, with numerous docks in existence from the 17th century until 1970, when the docks closed. Most of the docks were subsequently filled in and turned into housing estates and parks in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the whole area -- part of the Docklands development area under Margaret Thatcher, along with Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs -- was renamed Surrey Quays. South Dock, however, became a marina, and was reopened in 1994. In the background is Baltic Quay, an award-winning residential block that opened in 1989, but is now very dated in appearance.
For a similar view in the daytime, from May 2012, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/7609214308/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
The Fearless class amphibious assault ships were the first purpose-built amphibious warfare vessels in the Royal Navy. The class comprised two ships: HMS Fearless and HMS Intrepid.
Designed as Landing Platform Docks, they were designed to transport and land troops by sea either using Landing Craft Utility or helicopters. As constructed, the ships have an internal dock that is accessed via the stern—while in port, vehicles can drive up the stern ramp and into the internal vehicle decks. At sea, the ships could partially submerge themselves at the stern, flooding the internal dock and allowing landing craft to come right up to the edge of the vehicle deck.
Each ship carried four LCUs in the stern dock, with four smaller landing craft on davits on the superstructure. They provided accommodation for up to 400 troops, which could be increased to 700, if no vehicles were carried.
Intrepid was put into extended reserve in 1991, effectively removing her from active service. While in this state, she was used as a source of spares to maintain Fearless. Intrepid was finally withdrawn from service in August 1999. Fearless was kept in service, and continued to be deployed in concert with HMS Ocean until the end of 2002, when she too was withdrawn from service, ready for the Albion class to enter the fleet. The Fearless class were the last steam-powered surface vessels in Royal Navy service (nuclear submarines use a steam turbine drive).
The successful deployments of the two ships, with the flexibility their configuration provided, meant that they have now been replaced by two new LPD ships of the Albion class. These LPD have been developed and commissioned despite the development of the Ocean Helicopter Carrier which itself has considerable assault landing capability.
(Text Wikipedia)
The Traffic Office, with its unusual cast iron portico, is one of a number of building designs by Hartley in collaboration with the architect Philip Hardwick.
The original design was by Hardwick, but Hartley radically changed it by adding a second floor to it shortly after its construction.
Both inside (where the 'light well' became an impressive hall) and outside, it was designed to impress and, like others of Hartley's lesser buildings, could be considered part of a 'corporate identity'.
It is built of brick with red sandstone dressings. There are prominent battered chimney stacks with connecting arches.
The most remarkable feature is the cast iron Tuscan portico and frieze. The four columns are 3.5m high, have a diameter of 1m at the base, and were cast in two halves and brazed together along their length.
The architrave is 11.5m long and was made in a single casting, in the shape of a giant "U". Brazed onto the architrave is an iron cornice and pediment, consisting of seven separate castings.
The building suffered prolonged dereliction, including structural damage, before being restored under the aegis of the Merseyside Development Corporation and re-opened as television studios.
Thailand - Bangkok Docks - Klong Toey (Khlong Toei)
Klong Toei (Thai: คลà¸à¸‡à¹€à¸•à¸¢) is a district in central Bangkok, long known for substandard housing. It is bordered by the Chao Phraya River and contains major port facilities. It is also the name of a major market, though not touristic. The market is served by the Bangkok Metro station Klong Toey on Rama IV Road.
Alternate spelling - Khlong Toei
(Part of an old pic dump I'm doing whle organizing my files.)
This was taken with my first camera that was stolen, was still trying to learn how to use it. Attempting to play with DoF.
The Mart Dock from the air. The ship in the photo is the same Goodrich ship from the previous photo I posted. I'm not sure of the year, but I think this was the 1920s.
The building with the curved roof was where Muskegon's hockey team played until Walker Arena opened in 1960.
Challenge 2015, Week 3 "Inspired by Poetry"
I found the poem and then went a looking for a wild flower, only they have too much sense to flower in January, but I sort of thought this Dock in seed would fit :))
The Flower
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
To and fro they went
Thro' my garden bower,
And muttering discontent
Cursed me and my flower.
Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o'er the wall
Stole the seed by night.
Sow'd it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
'Splendid is the flower! '
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;
And now again the people
Call it but a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson :
Swansea Docks - the South Dock and Marina. The Sail Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the former dock.
South Dock Swansea
March 2012
more footage from the launch review - booster cam just prior to MECO, low air pressure causes exhaust expansion
Princes Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is the most southerly of the docks situated in the northern part of the Liverpool dock system, connected to Princes Half Tide Dock to the north. The dock is now in the buffer zone to one of Liverpool's World Heritage Sites.
The dock was built by John Foster, with construction starting in 1810. During the construction, Foster ordered many times more stone than was needed. Allegedly, Foster diverted it to his family's building company. He resigned when this was discovered.
Princes Dock was named after the Prince Regent. It opened on the day of the Prince Regent's coronation as George IV in 1821. Access to the southern half of the dock system was via George's Basin, George's Dock and into Canning Dock. In 1899, both George's Basin and George's Dock were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head.
On 12 June 1895 Liverpool Riverside Station was opened, situated between Princes Dock and the River Mersey.
In 1968 B&I Line (operator of the Liverpool - Dublin service) commenced a new car ferry service from Carrier Dock further downriver. A passenger only service continued to use Princes Dock till 1969.
Ferry services from Princes Dock finally ended in November 1981 when P&O Ferries closed their Liverpool - Belfast overnight service. The dock subsequently closed to shipping and was partly filled.
Wet Dock, Ipswich, Suffolk
When I moved to Ipswich in 1985, the Wet Dock was a hive of industrial activity. Factories along the waterfront included Pauls, who made animal feed, Cranfields, who malted barley and milled cereals, and Burtons, who somewhat surreally made Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels.
There were also the warehouses of ECF, the Eastern Counties Farmers collective, Anglo-Norden, the timber importers, and Fisons, the fertiliser manufacturers. Many of them used the former buildings of Ransomes Orwell Works, which once employed 12,000 people. My grandad worked there in the 1930s.
The only one of these to survive today is Anglo-Norden, and almost all the warehouses and factories have gone, to be replaced by apartment blocks, restaurants, bars, and, on the Island, luxury yacht manufacturers.
The Wet Dock itself was home to huge cargo ships. Some flew the flag of Holland, and carried goods back and forward across the North Sea. Some were German, and took the malted barley to be made into Beck's Lager. Most mysterious of all were the big Russian ships in the days before the Iron Curtain fell, bringing timber and taking home wheat.
Today, the dock is mostly full of yachts. All the industrial activity at Ipswich Docks is now outside the lock gates, on Cliff Quay and the West Bank. The last factory on the Wet Dock closed in 2003. All the old Ransomes warehouses have been demolished. A new city is arising along the waterfront, and will be home to well over 10,000 people. It is the biggest single building project in the east of England.
I am fortunate that this is all happening at the bottom of my road, and I cycle along the waterfront at least twice a day. There is plenty to photograph, and everything changes quickly. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
Painted by artist Scott Thoe. He spent two years on this, painting each plate individually before mounting the whole thing.