John Oram's photos with the keyword: Waste Disposal Vessel

2020 was a year like no other in the life of the Port of Southampton and this picture reflects some of what that year meant as viewed from Mayflower Park. It is unusual to see a Cunard ship on 101 but that's where Queen Victoria was today, taking a break from other south coast resting places. Alongside were the bunker vessel Whitonia and the Veolia waste disposal vessel Seagreen, both well known to habitués of the port. My pictures usually show one or the other with a cruise ship but rarely both. In the background is P&O Arcadia on 106, also taking a break from short distance cruising between Hampshire and Dorset. A part of the background, starboard of Queen Victoria might go unremarked in photographs up until now but the slightly majestic Solent Mills is now undergoing demolition to be replaced by who knows what. There are, apparently, good reasons to demolish rather than preserve the building but it is sad to see it thus reduced. 5300_DSC_2160E

The latest unusual cruise ship visitor to Southampton was Carnival Valor which had arrived from St Eustatius again, I assume. on crew repatriation. The familiar Veolia waste disposal vessel Seagreen is alongside. At berth 104 is Silver Spirit with the equally familiar bunker vessel Whitonia alongside and berth 106 is occupied by P&O Ventura. With the cruise ship industry in suspended animation, Southampton's movements remain of interest to the photographer but, for the prospective passenger, tantalisingly distant. 5300_DSC_1750E

Norwegian Jade at Southampton, berth 101 with the Veolia waste disposal vessel 'Seagreen' alongside. Norwegian Jade had arrived from Le Havre on a positioning cruise from Miami. Before the return cruise to Miami at the end of September, she will sail from Southampton and Hamburg on various itineraries. The first port on the first of those cruises was St Peter Port, Guernsey. 200_3_P1050543

The Veolia waste disposal vessel Seagreen at work alongside Emerald Princess at Southampton. 200_P1020630