howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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dfds seaways suspended sailings just after midday today, not heard anything about p & o though.
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On the front page PaulB recommends hats to be thrown in the air. As I have just been out and checked, and it is an Easterly wind, I'm all for it...they will be in my back garden soon enough.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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lol!! Tom
Yes indeed re the Lifeboat crews. The hats will be reaching you anytime soon. Interesting that Howard...have just looked across the harbour, no DFDS ship in at all. They may all be stranded in Dunkerque. Ed might not get home today.
ps: see also the 'Barge Aground at Dunkerque' thread.
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The Hatters of Dover - and -
"An ill wind that blows nobody good"
The proverb has been verified in the opinion of the hatters of Dover; for during the late tremendous gale when so many persons were attracted to the beach, to gaze upon the rude "imperious surge", sixteen gentlemen returned minus their upper coverings which were borne away irrecoverably to add to the treasures of the deep and, in the language of the Rejected Addresses they "lost the felt and felt what they had lost."
(Kentish Gazette 12 Oct 1832 p.3 col.4)
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A bald truth...and nothing but...
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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"upper coverings"??
sound more like syrups than hats.
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DFDS sailings to Dunkerque continued as normal in the bad weather yesterday. It was just the Norman Spirit which briefly interrupted her sailings to Calais. She is nowhere near as good in bad weather as the modern D class ships running to Dunkerque. Presumably she is just a stop gap until DFDS/LD get some suitable tonnage running to Calais, getting a foot in the door before SeaFrance is just a distant memory. The obvious ships for this run are the Rodin and Berlioz and a shipbroker has been appointed to flog them off. P&O and Eurotunnel have both expressed an interest as neither would want to see another operator giving competition to Calais. Moliere has gone to Dunkerque and is being de-branded. She has always been unsuited to the short sea run and Robin Wilkins of SeaFrance attributes part of the reason for the demise of the company as the costs involved in acquiring her. She is owned by the banks so not for sale as a SeaFrance asset.
Brian Dixon
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ed,i think you will find that the renoir has been scrapped,unless you mean the rodin.
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Yes a slip of the pen there..Im sure Ed meant the Rodin. Thanks for the interesting angle re the Norman Spirit Ed. Interesting to hear that about her capabilities or the lack of. They really will need to get better equipped fairly fast if they are to be seen as a credible alternative.
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Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. Have edited it. Was rushing before starting work at 0700 this morning.
Renoir and Cezanne wound up on the beach in Alang, India yonks ago and are now razor blades.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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oddly enough i saw the rodin earlier berthed in calais, the middle one here.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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then off it went, funny i thought.
ended up berthing the other side of the european seaway.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Jeeez Howard, you certainly get about...here today, there tomorrow.. Where are you getting the energy ? Well done with the pictures...You may even have one of the last visual sightings of the Rodin actually moving while sporting the Seafrance colours. It looks great too...ah shame innit. Sigh !
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard, stand still for a while, you're making me go all dizzy, I'll be needing a lie down so I will. Whatever you're on can I have some of it
