I wish they would stop using Liverpool to break up ships. It is degrading for the port. Liverpool is not a graveyard for ships. It is a home for ships.
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I wish they would stop using Liverpool to break up ships. It is degrading for the port. Liverpool is not a graveyard for ships. It is a home for ships.
Is right :thumbsup:
Gotta agree with that WW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Sentimentally you are right to feel that way, but if it provides jobs...Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
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That's the other side Chris. We certainly need more jobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
The graving dock at Canada Dock is really for repairing ships, not destroying them. The city/Peel should use the docks complex more forcefully. Why aren't ships being repaired? The ports needs to look at what is being shifted and aim to gain that business. Not all is containers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
We don't need the ugly scrap piles and ship breaking - it is not a good image for the port. It is on the image of desperation. The government should be pushing to be opening up some steel plants to melt all this metal down in the UK - like Sheffield or Wales.
Canada dock is used for importing scrap as well as a shipbreakers yard
The scrap goes to Spain and Taiwan. Is this imported scrap re-exported immediately?Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Agree about those ugly scrap piles aint pretty is it :disgust:
Bet it would be pretty if it were your scrap. I don't like the business, but like Chris says jobs is jobs. It's a difficult one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdy
Nah scraps never pretty dont care who's it is :)
Well if it were my scrap, I'd lie naked and make love to it. Proably worth a fortune.
:)
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Mammoth in the Mersey yesterday
Nice one Joe. Seen it in Birkenhead today.
Fine photos once again, Joe! :handclap:
Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
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Tervik inward bound for Eastham
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Tanker Sea Powet inward bound to the Gladstone while HSC Mexico,a container ship passes outward bound, I did a double take on this, as I had seen the tanker passing the lighthouse as the missus and I walked along the prom, then when I looked again she appeared to have containers on her deck.
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Mystery solved as HSC Mexico turns in the Mersey
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H M S Albion visiting Liverpool today
Nice photos Joe.
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The old landing craft Club Landfall on the bottom in the east float
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As it was 6 months ago,they moved it to the other side of the float
It's a shame to see it in such bad condition!Surely,these day's, it would be financially viable to restore it?Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
A couple of the Albion on arrival...
Nice one Corky. I believe the crew went to Chester today and got the freedom of the City.
I believe so as they have the Freedom of the City of Chester, and to get the ships bell blessed
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Originally Posted by corky100
hi there,new to this site, i was born in sefton general, my mother and her family are still in liverpool but dont have any contact, im wondering if you could lead me in the right direction, i am trying to find informaton on my grandfather who worked on the docks , would there be any lists of any kind for the workers? just trying to find my roots!
Welcome Marcia. I haven't got a clue, but I'm sure someone has.Quote:
Originally Posted by marcia2008
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H M S Albion from the ferry
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Just arriving H M S Albion testerday
ok thanks for replying tho, keeping my fingers crossed!
is my memory failing me? i remember when i was a child, im 32 now, this place was being built, i might of been about seven, just remeber walking over a little bridge with no hand rails on it , was always worried id fall over or something and land in the water lol, i know its irrelevent but thought id just mention it lol, luv it when i remember little things like that about liverpool, i also remember climbing up some steps onto some sort of cast iron scaffolding and looking out over the water, and my father used to take me to an old cafe that was in the the long building on the pier head, i think it was a bus station, last time i went there was 10 years ago, and there was just a beefeater!
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The original submarine Resurgam designed by Rev G Garrett in 1878. It sank in 1880 and was found by fishermen in their nets in 1995.
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It was rebuilt in 1997 an placed at Woodside but the wood rotted away so it has been restored again.
It is at Woodside again
Absolutely brilliant pic GD. I'd never even heard of that nevermind seen it before. Nice one GD.:PDT_Piratz_26:
Hi Marcia,and welcome to Yo!
If you want a better response,it would help if you gave some names,dates,and places, just for something to go on! You could try this site,which is sailor/ship related,good luck!
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Turnvik inward bound on the Mersey
nice one Joe.
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Mersey tug passing the VATican building
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Merseyside fire and rescue service practicing by the cruise terminal yesterday in the sunshine
This, I read, is the Resurgam II. The first being a design for a one-man vessel nicknamed the Curates Egg.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
The name is Latin for, "I shall rise again".
[I wonder what the Latin might be for I shall rise again and again? :)]
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Is there a plan to raise the original submarine Resurgam? It is fully intact and should not be much of job to renovate.
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It's a Black Headed gull without a black head. He can have one of mine!!!