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Post by JohnV on Mar 19, 2019 18:14:22 GMT
On Farcebook there has been a report and some pictures of a crane barge upside down (with apparently an 8 ton excavator underneath and a narrowboat sunk half under the bridge at Wakefield with a report of another one having gone over the weir and off on the way downstream all more or less opposite the Hepworth gallery.
Sorry I'm afraid I can't post the pictures as it's on a closed FB site.
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Post by quaysider on Mar 19, 2019 18:33:53 GMT
On Farcebook there has been a report and some pictures of a crane barge upside down (with apparently an 8 ton excavator underneath and a narrowboat sunk half under the bridge at Wakefield with a report of another one having gone over the weir and off on the way downstream all more or less opposite the Hepworth gallery. Sorry I'm afraid I can't post the pictures as it's on a closed FB site. which group is it? - |
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Post by JohnV on Mar 19, 2019 19:13:44 GMT
Barges small river tugs and workboats on Humber
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Post by quaysider on Mar 19, 2019 19:20:41 GMT
cheers - I'll see if I can get in the club and save the photos to my blog to share...
That weir scares me when the river is angry - how folk live there is beyond my bravery
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 19:25:18 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 19, 2019 19:31:47 GMT
 If you go to Google Maps and select the satellite view and zoom in, it looks like that things that has 'overturned' has always been like it. We saw those boats from the bridge Summer 2017, and it looked like a sort of... well... scrapyard/graveyard to me. What is it, exactly? Some kind of boatyard? Do people live on boats there? |
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Post by deadly on Mar 19, 2019 19:49:36 GMT
Can confirm, nb Thomas Paine went over the weir and is on its side against the leg of the road bridge, dredger Lily Pad is upside down on the weir, the big blue yacht is submerged all-but the masts, and some others broke loose but were saved.
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Post by faffer on Mar 19, 2019 21:25:03 GMT
I used to drive over that road bridge every other day and wondered about when its get a bit high. Thats when trying to keep in my lane, i am a drifter when going over briges and see boats, well water  |
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Post by thebfg on Mar 19, 2019 22:54:37 GMT
That's going to take some sorting out. I hope it's not vandalism.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 22:58:12 GMT
That's going to take some sorting out. I hope it's not vandalism. I doubt it but happy to be corrected. Lots of rivers up north are in flood due to a lot of rain. They probably just broke free in the strong stream conditions. |
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Post by phil70 on Mar 20, 2019 0:31:10 GMT
Seems unforgivable that boats should come adrift even in strong stream conditions unless tied with baler twine or blues string
Phil
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Post by JohnV on Mar 20, 2019 7:44:49 GMT
Seems unforgivable that boats should come adrift even in strong stream conditions unless tied with baler twine or blues string Phil on fb the comment was all on a bit of worn 18mm. on the same site there was another post "not the first and probably not the last" with pictures of 3 of barges belonging to Blundy, Clark and Co that went over the weir in 1951 again sorry can't find a way to get the piccies (I think you have to know what you are doing for things like that  ) |
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Post by quaysider on Mar 20, 2019 8:05:45 GMT
There's still a hydro electric thingy 'marrooned' there that broke free upstream and floated down during boxing day 2015...
We went passed Water-Lily the other week that was moored just off the Dewsbury Arm (double locks)... it's quite a big bugger.
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Post by twbm2 on Mar 20, 2019 15:50:18 GMT
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Post by deadly on Mar 20, 2019 17:30:04 GMT
on fb the comment was all on a bit of worn 18mm. I'd like to think that comment was said tongue-in-cheek. If memory serves me correct the yacht hull was secured at multiple points with wire rope of about 16mm, had its keel well into the mud, had not moved at all or even floated in a lot of years. Can't speak for how Thomas Paine was secured to the yacht at the upstream end but it was facing downstream, pretty sure it was tied to either Hatfield or the Jebus at the upstream end with 14mm and to the yacht at the downstream end with same. Dulcinea was facing the current, tied to Thomas Paine at both ends with almost new 16mm polyhemp, and to the Jebus with same. Connie was also facing the current, was and still is tied to Dulcinea at both ends with same 16mm polyhemp and at multiple points along the handrails. Connie was also tied at the front to the jebus with the same 16mm polyhemp, and with a long slack run of the same from the back to the back mast on the yacht. I can't speak for how well Land & Water's stuff was fastened, never saw it up close before it all went wrong. If I had to guess I'd say something came down in the flood and smacked Lily Pad off the end of the raft, broke everything loose, but I wasn't there when it happened so can't know for sure. edit: clarify confusing up/down |
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