Banging
- 1 February 2012 15:17150783Can anyone else hear banging/popping?
Sounds like fireworks are going off down near seafront... odd. - 1 February 2012 15:28150785Must be The Boss having a party!! I did hear something but didn't take a lot of notice.Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!! - 1 February 2012 15:48150792Perhaps somebody has been feeding the gulls 'mintos' and coke-a-cola again.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 1 February 2012 15:52150795After the last unannounced meeting of the DHB and its PDCT overture, published on the Forum when the fact was done, possibly the P/P Trust marched on the Port with its partisans, to the tune: Bluebirds over Dover.
I assume a melee broke out, which might explain some of the racket
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - Alec Sheldon
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1 February 2012 17:09150826Was it the Lifeboat maroons going off.? - Keith Sansum1
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1 February 2012 17:10150828was it the planning dept being disbanded party lol ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 1 February 2012 17:58150849Maybe the Dover drum has started again....
John WORTHINGTON: 29.5.1703
Paid drummers for beating and declaring war against France: £0.6s.0d.
Under same date: Paid John WORTHINGTON for repairing ye drumm £0. 8s. 0d.
(Dover Chamberlain's Accounts Vol.7 (1700-84), Kent Co.Archives)---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 2 February 2012 11:32151022It sounded like practise on the old firing range up at the barracks
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2 February 2012 11:40151023Probably the Met playing again! Anyone see the police convoy leaving?
TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 2 February 2012 11:47151025Lifeboat maroons? it is all high tech bleepers now.Audere est facere.
- 2 February 2012 18:04151089Ah yes ! the days of the loud bangs to call out the lifeboat are gone. When I first moved here I got such a shock.... I thought the political troubles had followed me!! One quiet afternoon here on the languid seafront, there was an almighty bang which nearly knocked my teeth out...and then just as I was recovering from the first bang, it happened again.
The seagulls took to the wing with much yelping ..I didnt know what was going on. Nobody forewarned me about a damn thing. Jeeez...
After I gathered my wits about me I thought it must be some bizarre tribal custom indulged in by locals.
Of course over time I eventually twigged.
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2 February 2012 18:14151092Sorry, I didn't know that, I should get out more.
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2 February 2012 18:58151108...and sirens used to call out retained firemen!
TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 2 February 2012 19:24151109luring to their death terry?
- 3 February 2012 03:10151168I expect the banging is the pile driving operation in progress on the extension to Pier A. Here is a photo from a couple of weeks ago, the Octopus is now putting in the big monopile on the end.
Notice to Mariners 3 /2012
Pier 'A' Extension Works - Monopile Operations
The jack-up barge "Octopus" has now completed driving the 12 piles to the South of Pier 'A' as detailed in Notice to Mariners No 23/2011 and the "Octopus" has been shifted clear of the site to the East of Pier 'B'. The 3 most Southerly piles of the 12 are located 26 metres from the head of the original Pier 'A'. The Southern most pile of the 12 on the East side has been fitted with 2 Vertical Fixed Red Lights to indicate the location during hours of darkness.
On Tuesday 17th January, the jack-up barge "Octopus" will once again shift to a position South of Pier 'A' and carry out preparation works for the installation of the large monopole which will form the head of the new extended Pier 'A'. The "Octopus" will take up position close west of the 12 piles and may from time to time shift location over the next few weeks as required. During the hours of darkness the "Octopus" will be fully lit and the Southern most section of any construction works extending from Pier 'A' will be lit with 2 Vertical Fixed Red Lights.
Dover Port Control will keep all vessels operating within the Port advised of any particular change of circumstance with regards to construction works that is liable to cause a hazard to navigation. All vessels berthing in ED2 are advised to manoeuvre with extreme caution, with minimum wash and if in any doubt regarding construction activity to seek advice from Port Control, who are in contact with the barge Master. Control measures for navigating in the vicinity of Pier 'A' previously advised by risk assessment will continue to apply.
Notice to Mariners No 23/2011 is now cancelled
Paul Brown 14th January 2012
Harbour Master
Port of Dover - 4 February 2012 01:28151381Progress as of friday afternoon:
Photos of the previous pier extension work carried out on Pier E are on the thread below.
http://www.doverforum.com/letters/viewtopic.php?id=5661
Completion of the Pier A extension will mean that all the berths in Dover will be able to accept the largest ferries in service today and into the distant future. The Spirit of France has carried out berthing trials on a selection of berths and the photos below show her laid up on the Eastern Arm. She can presently be differentiated from her sister ship the Spirit of Britain by the extended exhausts on top of the squidgy funnel although the latter will be going back to Finland to receive the same modifications.
- 4 February 2012 11:26151412Great posts and pictures there Ed as ever. Very informative and that thread to the older Doverforum link is brill too. The pictures show completely on there just what the later or current work will achieve. Yes Ive seen the Spirit of France moving around the harbour to various piers and she seemed to disappear too, perhaps went to Calais.
I must have a look at those exhausts...up until now I havent been able to tell them apart without getting binoculars to read the name.
email: dover7@msn.com - 5 February 2012 17:15151709Ed on the side of both Spirit's there are cables in v shaped trunking, this does not seem to be on the other Ferries, any ideas what it is for?Audere est facere.
- 6 February 2012 00:44151793Hi Martin. They are the bowsing-in lines for the Marine Evacuation Systems. These two ships have six MES each and are the first ferries to have no lifeboats, depending entirely on MES. All the P&O ferries use Marin Ark MES, the diagram shows a typical one of a slightly earlier design. The DFDS ferries use a different type manufactured by Viking.
The photo of the Spirit of France shows two of her MES. The MES stations are behind the blue doors. These open and a carriage moves out and deploys the chutes and liferafts. The liferafts inflate on hitting the water and are held against the ships side by the bowsing-in lines. The photo shows one of her fast rescue boats being recovered after going out for a jolly. These are used to shepherd the liferafts, and to whiz out for a man overboard, etc.
- 6 February 2012 07:38151795Thanks Ed, I knew you would have the answer.Audere est facere.
