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18 October 2009
21:2430907#1
Imaged some original pics here from my dads camera, some pre-war, and never before published. He let me have them years ago. Despite the poor quality, you can see the POW pier, cliffs etc. The only ship I can see the name of is the WHITSTABLE. I`ll try and do some more tomorrow in daylight.
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18 October 2009
21:2630908#2
The Dover Pilot. Photograph removed by me, as a better image below.
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18 October 2009
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18 October 2009
21:2930910#4
This photograph has been removed by me due to the poor reproduction by myself. I now have a good scanner, and this fine vessel will be reproduced elsewhere.
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18 October 2009
21:3330911#5
As above.
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18 October 2009
21:3430912#6
Picture removed by me, as a better quality one downsized appears elsewhere.
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18 October 2009
21:3530913#7
I`ll do some fresh pictures to replace that dark shadow on the images. Hope you found them interesting. More to come.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 October 2009
21:4730914#8
of course they are interesting colin, look forward to seeing some more.
i am trying to work out what type of vessel that was in picture 4, also what was the building in the background?
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18 October 2009
22:3030915#9
4 is the end of Prince of Wales Pier
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Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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19 October 2009
11:1030923#10
Great photos, Colin.
I think picture number 6 might be the Dinard, or possibly The Isle Of Thanet.
My grandad and my dad served on both. Sadly neither are around anymore to confirm the name of the ship. There are a few old salts still around though who I'm sure could identify them.
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19 October 2009
15:1230937#11
Hi there Andrew, glad you liked them. Regarding names, the Isle of Thanet was a single funneled ship, and the Dinard was built later I believe, as the curve of the stern in the above ship, looks a bit dated to the post-card view of the Dinard I have. Also, different number of port holes. Very interesting to hear your grandad and dad working on them. I used to watch the cross channel ferries alot in the early/mid 60s, and I could tell you what they were, unlike todays ferries, I don`t even know if they have names.
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19 October 2009
16:1630938#12
Thanks Colin. Yes, my grandad and dad variously worked on all the old Southern Railway-British Rail-Sealink classics: The Lord Warden, Maid of Kent, Maid of Orleans, Shepperton Ferry, Hampton Ferry, Normannia, Invicta, Vortigern...the list goes on.
Great ships, great crews, great days, great times.
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19 October 2009
16:3330940#13
Same here Andrew. Incidently, I`ve just come of a site on the internet, and I think this ship may be the Maid of Orleans, torpedoed in the English channel in 1944. Several similar looking ships built by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway on there, but all gone before this pic was taken. Just got my batteries on charge, I`ll pop some more treats on later.
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19 October 2009
17:4430943#14
Lots of interesting ship pictures, this is one I have had for a while and just got around to scanning. The Riviera built in 1911 and took part in WW2, moved to Folkestone in the 1920s, took part in Normandy in WW2 and finally scrapped in 1957
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19 October 2009
17:5230944#15
Nice one Paul, and always nice to have a scenic background for easier identification in later years. Ah, have to have another go at building that time machine. I have popped on another picture below of the one above I placed which may be the Maid of Orleans. Taken on the same day, as the the developing number is the same.
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Alec Sheldon
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19 October 2009
17:5730947#18
Thats an old Thames Barge in picture 4 Howard.
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19 October 2009
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19 October 2009
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In 1955 I was a cabin boy on one of the pilot cutters,the Kentra,the pathfinder,and there was one more.Itwas the best job for a young lad with the best wage in town£5 aweek you done 3weeks on seven days aweek,and then one full week off,I had my own cabin to you done one week off Dungerness,staying on the ship, one week going each day out to take the pilots,out and one week up the coast some where. I was always sea sick.
