Our favourite dredger
- 14 November 2012 18:45201399good to see this large investment in the "david church".
http://www.dover.uk.com/news/2012/half-a-million-pound-makeover-for-port-of-dover-dredger - 14 November 2012 23:55201437Had no idea that people had favourite dredgers, Howard, but we all have our hobbies I suppose.
Pretty sure that the David Church was named in memory of a local pilot.
The previous DHB dredger was the Admiral Day which was working in Ramsgate recently.
I have often wondered where the single fluke anchors came from that are beside Port Control and found out on a recent visit that they used to be employed by the Admiral Day.
- 15 November 2012 02:27201442Fog at Ramsgate ..... and the Admiral Day!
- 15 November 2012 08:56201450In wasn't aware that people had favourite dredgers either. However, on a recent canal holiday, my good friend Brian Rowland did have a favourite windlass!True friends stab you in the front.
- 15 November 2012 09:45201452i've changed my mind now the "admiral day" is my new favourite.
- 15 November 2012 10:22201457Strewth, you dredger spotters are so flighty.
One glimpse of a neatly turned jib and you're anybodys!
- 15 November 2012 10:29201458Two balls and a diamond always does it for me!
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15 November 2012 10:52201460#7 bleeding tart.
- 15 November 2012 12:51201473one can never have too many dredger photos, here is another of my favourites.
- 15 November 2012 18:18201569Two more in Dunkerque West in the gloom this afternoon. This is turning into a dredger extravanganza.
Vlandeeren I on the Quai de Lorraine:
Daniel Laval in the outer harbour with the construction cranes for the new LNG terminal in the background:
- 15 November 2012 18:49201574have downloaded those ed, purely for personal use and no financial gain.
- 15 November 2012 23:09201624This is the dredger 'Gallions Reach' latterly owned by the Westminster dredging Co. My colleague 'Bob' (94yrs) was on the crew of this vessel when it was summoned to take part in the Dunkirk evacuation. They steamed up from the Solent and eventually ran aground in Dunkirk Harbour -they had to wait 16hrs during an incessant bombardment to get the appropriate tide to get off. They rescued 25 souls including some badly injured who were lying on the decks . The then teenager Bob and his shipmates were doing their best to make them comfortable when a toffee nosed officer got on board demanding sandwiches and a cup of tea- the reply cannot be repeated on this forum.
Never give up... - 24 November 2012 10:05203004Another one for you, Howard.
Arco Avon a few miles off Dover this morning.
- 24 November 2012 10:25203009You chaps seem to be dredging up quite an interesting collection here
- 24 November 2012 11:06203013that's a cracker ed - truly a dredger's dredger.
- 24 November 2012 18:07203062Yes I liked working on them to, always lots of welding to be done.They would call me out all hours ,there would be a Hamonds boat ready to take me out to the very big ones,then they would come and pick me up again and take me back to the port, well most times once I got left on there for over 24hours but I got paid for it and a Sunday.
- 1 December 2012 23:57204135Sand Harrier on the Eastern Arm back in August.
She is a trailing suction hopper dredger, Howard, but you knew that already.
- 2 December 2012 00:56204136Another view of the Daniel Laval a few months ago on one of those days when the world is suffused in a golden glow which brings out a dredger in all its glory, truly one to quicken the pulse of any dedicated dredger spotter.
- 2 December 2012 10:27204201ah yes puts those boring old cruise liners in the shade.
- 24 December 2012 12:33207324Another new dredger in Dunkerque West, the Taccola. Seen here dredging the Outer Port where the new LNG terminal is under construction. The three massive LNG storage tanks can be seen rising in the background surrounded by construction cranes.
