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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #10 Posted: 05 March 2010 at 03:10 PM »
A ship alongside the silo...you can tell I have been to Asda today Grin

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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #11 Posted: 05 March 2010 at 03:17 PM »
i saw boat that appeared be on fire yesterday did you see it.
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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #12 Posted: 05 March 2010 at 05:40 PM »
Mel  --  I took photos of the same two vessels.
Did you see the Dutch  Fisheries Protection vessel that left about lunchtime ?
It had escorted that Dutch trawler into Lowestoft last night because of alleged infringements of fishing regulations.
I know what they are accused of, but I don't know the outcome yet. I suspect I will have to keep in close touch with the Magistrates Court to get a story.
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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #13 Posted: 05 March 2010 at 06:40 PM »
Quote from: caz2 on 05 March 2010 at 03:17 PM
i saw boat that appeared be on fire yesterday did you see it.

No I haven't seen or heard anything Caz about any fire, but ships sometimes let off a lot of smoke when alongside, I believe it happens when they start up their generators or pumps (I may be wrong on this point but it sounds quite convincing...to me anyway Grin).

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Did you see the Dutch  Fisheries Protection vessel that left about lunchtime ?

No I must have missed that Freelance, but I did get the name of the Dutch trawler, quite a mouthful, it was the 'Onderneming' registered in 'Goeoereede' if I have read it right.
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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #14 Posted: 06 March 2010 at 04:13 PM »
Your ship has left the silo, Mel, and today's one has taken its place
Islay Trader is pumping out ballast in readiness for loading. She is a fairly regular visitor and usually loads East Anglian malting barley for Port Ellen.
Grain from the Lowestoft silo goes to Scottish distilleries, Spain, Portugal and several ports in Ireland. An unusual cargo recently was peas (dried, of course) that went to Drogheda (pronounced Drawda) in Ireland.  I would like a pound for every load of peat that we brought from Drogheda on Everard's coasters.

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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #15 Posted: 06 March 2010 at 04:26 PM »
I thought the Everards ships used to end their name ity? eg Felicity. Metcalfs used to end in M . Caroline M.

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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #16 Posted: 07 March 2010 at 06:51 PM »
Islay Trader, along with about four other vessels belong to Faversham Ships Ltd.  Barbados flagged. She and Shetland Trader regularly take malting barley from our silo to Port Ellen. Approximately one load every three weeks.
Port Ellen is on the Isle of Islay  --  the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. May have a pic or two soon, from a contact there.
Metcalf's Motor Coasters had several tankers and cargo ships. They even owned ONE trawler (London registered) which sailed out of Lowestoft. Tragically it sailed out of Lowestoft one day and was blown up by a WW2 mine. It was the "Gypsy Queen".
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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #17 Posted: 08 March 2010 at 09:44 PM »
Here is a picture from my archive.  I took this Picture of the Cunard Line "Empress of Britain" on the Liverpool docks on 29th August 1964.  It was taken with a Kodak Bantam Colorsnap camera (which I remember cost me the princely sum of £5.1s.7d at the time about £5.08p in todays money) and which used a roll film size 828.  The negative films only had eight exposures per roll and the colour slides had just twelve. The negative width was the same as 35mm but had the backing paper that roll films had.  This image was scanned from the negative using a Canon 3200F scanner.

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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #18 Posted: 08 March 2010 at 10:02 PM »
Re- my previous post the Empress of Britain was in fact under the flag of the Canadian Pacific, not Cunard.
My apologies.
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Re: Ships and boats « Reply #19 Posted: 17 March 2010 at 09:12 PM »
The 'Vigilant' a Dutch survey vessel...

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