today on the river Hull (mostly pictures)

Great photos John, thanks, I would have loved to be there to watch the clockwork teamwork of the tug crews.

Peter.

The smaller tug was "Gillian Knight"  the odd looking craft tied up by the side was the ex CRT crane barge "Bartholomew" now sans crane tied up in front of the ex tanker "Dovedale" (If you are looking for a project, it's up for sale around £39k cut and shortened to the length you want. complete with a Lister Blackstone engine)
In the background is another crane barge also ex waterways (don't know it's original name) now called "Jade Lift" which was used to lift the gangway, the chains used for mooring and the panamas and take them round to the new berth)

They were there the day before with all the boats (when no-one was watching) to make sure she would slide out of her berth and to check clearances and to replace the mooring chains and wires with rope and to get the gangway ready to unrig (it was welded on)
There has been over a weeks activity there dredging and checking (massive amount of mud there after 20 years)


SAM_1736 by mudlarker2, on Flickr