tarboat's photos with the keyword: dock

Chemical tanker BRO DEVELOPER unloading in Roath Dock, Cardiff. The Danish registered ship is owned by Maersk Tankers. It was built in China in 2007 and has a gross tonnage of 11344.

The Humberside Offshore Training Association (HOTA) operates from premises close to the entrance lock at the east end of Albert Dock in Hull. It was established in 1987 and as a Limited Company with Charity Status. HOTA provides Internationally Approved and Certified Training and an extensive portfolio of bespoke courses for the Renewables, Offshore, Maritime and Onshore Sectors. The tower to the right is for working at height training. In the background is the lifeboat experience with No.4 missing in action.

Access to the Holiday Inn at Ellesmere Port requires traversing this swing bridge over the canal lock into the docks. A notable feature is the pointless arc of brickwork on the floor beyond the balance beam and running behind the lamp.

Discharging grain at the Royal Seaforth Dock in Liverpool. KAVO AETOS is a Bulk Carrier built in 2003 by Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu) Inc. as the BULK SCORPIO and is sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands. The length overall is 189.99 metres and width is 32.26 metres. The gross registered tonnage is 30,054 and deadweight 52,384.

Opened in 1971, the Seaforth Dock site in the Port of Liverpool occupies about 500 acres, of which 85 acres is water. The dock was the largest built in the United Kingdom for some time, with 10,000 ft (3,000 m) of quay and a depth of 50 ft. A large part of the dock is dedicated to container traffic and these are four of the eight cranes used for containers.

RFA Fort Victoria is a Fort-class combined fleet stores ship and tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom tasked with providing ammunition, fuel, food and other supplies to Royal Navy vessels around the world. The ship displaces 31,565 tons. In this view the ship is in dock at Cammell Laird Shipbuilders at Brikenhead where it was undergoing a refit that included engine upgrades.

Liverpool2 is a container terminal extension adjoining the River Mersey in Seaforth, Merseyside. The extension, built by Peel Ports, officially opened on 4 November 2016 and is an expansion of the Seaforth Dock container terminal. It is able to accommodate two 13,500 TEU New-Panamax vessels simultaneously using eight Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited built Megamax ship-to-shore cranes delivered from Shanghai in to batches in 2015 and 2017. The blue cranes in the background serve the original Seaforth Dock container terminal. Transatlantic trade seems to dominate the business here but the lack of shipping at the terminal suggests that it is operating at nowhere near capacity.

Swing bridge alongside the channel into Alexandra Dock from Hornby Dock at Liverpool. The dock was built by George Fosbery Lyster between 1874 and 1882. During its construction, the dock was known as Atlantic Dock for about a year. Opened in 1881 and named in honour of Queen Alexandra, the dock has three branch docks, of which the southernmost has been filed-in, and is connected to Hornby Dock to the north and Langton Dock to the south. Initially, access was through Langton Dock and the Canada Basin. The main trade of the dock was once grain and frozen meat but is now recycled scrap metal.

These three silos at Gladstone Dock in Liverpool have a combined capacity of 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets for use at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. This terminal was completed in July 2016 with wood pellets being offloaded from vessels utilising Continuous Ship Unloaders, before being deposited into the silos via a conveyor belt system. The pellets are then loaded into block trains for transportation to the power station.

This canal and basin complex was built by the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company between 1810 and 1813 and a horse drawn tramway was laid, to move the coal and iron to the wharves after it was brought down from the pits and forges on the Pidcocks Canal. A new dock on the estuary was started in 1809 and opened in 1813. The outer harbour was built and finally completed in 1821 and the tramway extended all the way down. The north pier was extended in 1825 to aid ships into the harbour. Lydney Harbour continued to host sailing ships right up to the 1950s. The coal mining industry contracted after the First World War and the mines closed in the Forest from the 1920s, with the final export of coal from the harbour in 1960. The harbour carried on working up to 1970s by importing logs for the manufacture of plywood at the factory at Pine End. Finally, in 1976, the British Transport Docks Board closed the port by walling in the tidal basin. In 1980 the harbour, including the lower and tidal basins and the pier, were designated Scheduled Ancient Monument status. The refurbishing of Lydney Docks began in May 2002, when the outer lock gates were re-opened, following the removal of large amounts of silt, funded though the Heritage Lottery Fund. A £1.9M project saw the Environment Agency develop a marina, with mooring facilities for around 50 boats which was completed in 2005. Mud continues to be a problem as can be seen in this image and I wonder whether the lower lock gates are currently useable.

The Salt Union saltworks at Weston Point, Runcorn, viewed across the empty Delamere Dock. This 850,000 tonne per annum vacuum salt plant was sold to Ineos Enterprises in 2006. Products include: Undried vacuum salt - a key raw material in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda. Pure dried vacuum salt - an important ingredient for the food industry as well as for processes ranging from shampoo manufacture to animal nutrition and water treatment. Granular and white tablet salt for water softening. Packed de-icing salts.

My good friend Bryan busy photographing the original entrance to West Bank Dock at Widnes. In the background can be seen the Saria rendering plant and associated power station.

The surviving compartment boat hoist at Goole Docks dozes in the late evening sun. These hoists were designed to load coal brought from Yorkshire collieries in floating trains of compartment boats into seagoing vessels. There was even a floating version of the hoist that could be towed to wherever in the docks it was required. This No.5 hoist is now preserved with a small museum attached.

Dereliction at the entrance lock to Weston Point Docks from the Manchester Ship Canal. The current owners, Stobart Group, have since demolished much of the old infrastructure on this area.

The 6840 gross tonnage nuclear fuel carrier Pacific Grebe lies adjacent to the Goliath crane in Ramsden Dock, Barrow-in-Furness. With sister ships Pacific Egret and Pacific Heron the vessel is engaged in transporting Highly Active Waste from Sellafield back to the country of origin - mainly Europe and Japan. These British registered ships are the UK's only armed merchant ships with a defence force on each provided by the nuclear industry police.

At Buxton Road Wharf on the Macclesfield Canal are some interesting remains that indicate that at one time a lock gate was installed here. Unlike those at Bosley, this gate was a single item of a full seven feet plus in width as can be seen from the recess seen here. At the left of the recess is the quoin and the cut-off remains of the iron straps that held the gate collar. These straps are of an identical design to the few remaining old style straps still in use on the gates at Bosley. At the far left was reason for the gate as this is the entrance to the drydock that the Macclesfield Canal Company built here in the 1830s. The dock is not shown on any of the maps and plans that I have consulted and must have been taken out of use after only a short life. There is, however, a reference in the proceedings of the Macclesfield Canal Committee. Dry Dock at Buxton Road Wharf: Meeting on 10th July 1834 at the Canal Office, Macclesfield. Mr Hall having laid before the Committee a letter from J P Swanwick & Co. containing an offer to rent a part of the Company’s Wharf north of the Buxton Road, including the partly formed dock at £20 per annum provided the Company complete the said dock, each party to be at liberty on giving 6 months notice; the subject was considered, the rent offered was thought too low, and some difficulties appeared to present themselves with respect to the present lime shed, and the ingress and egress to and from the wharf and also as to the waste of water that might occur if the dock was used to repair unless under proper control; the mode of completing the dock was also discussed. It was thought unnecessary to go to the expense of ashlar coping or of puddling round the dock and that a rubble wall would be sufficient. It was therefore ordered that Mr Watts be requested to undertake the arrangement with Messrs J P Swanwick & Co. with the understanding as to 6 months notice and the letting of water to be under Mr Hall’s control and the rent must be more than £20 per annum, and that he be empowered to arrange with Mr Hall and Mr Nicholls as to the completion of the dock and the expenses attendant thereon. I wonder if the cheap construction and consequent water loss made it more trouble than it was worth? There is no further mention in subsequent Committee minutes.