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I've just finished a documentary exploring the lost shipyards of the River Tyne. For centuries, the Tyne was one of the world's great shipbuilding rivers, producing everything from wooden colliers and merchant vessels to famous ships such as RMS Mauretania, RMS Carpathia, and the revolutionary...

The HSC Aeolos Kenteris was a high-speed ferry built in the early 2000s for NEL Lines, designed to connect Greek islands at record speeds using powerful waterjets. For a few years she was among the fastest ferries in the Mediterranean, carrying passengers and vehicles across the Aegean. But...

As the last derelict pump house on the canal this had to be attempted even though it’s always looked rather secure, and indeed I couldn’t get in. So a mini report with just a couple of phone pictures taken through a crack to see what was inside. What we have here is probably a...

HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. She was built on the river Hull in Yorkshire in 1951 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley, Yorkshire. She was commissioned as HMS Humber on 4 June 1954. Humber spent four years in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving as...

This is the fourth and final report covering four of the seven abandoned whaling stations on the UK dependency of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean, 8,000 miles from Britain. This time it is the whaling station in Prince Olav Harbour. I’ve included a map in this report so that the relative...

During November 2024, I went on an expedition cruise from Montevideo to South Georgia and Antarctica. South Georgia is a British dependency in the South Atlantic Ocean and comprises a very remote rocky island approximately 100 miles in length and 20 miles in width. Its remoteness makes it a...

OK so not quite Liverpool but near enough - we did this one weekend as an easy local explore when Junior was back in town. First reported by @mingerocket a couple of months ago, Report - - Barton locks, Manchester, Sept 2023 | Industrial Sites, it looked more interesting than I was expecting...

Took a wander around Whitton Marine, Hoo. Aside from the WW2 Ferro-Concrete Barges there, I was able to step on to Violette, a concrete schooner built Faversham by James Pollock & Sons, designed by Walter Pollock himself. She was one of two, the other being called Molliette. Molliette, her...

Plenty to find online if you google the name on the ship so not going to bother writing up a load of stuff go have a nice google search :D Managed to get on board over the fence and past security though ;) lol! Here's some shots

There is very little online about this long forgotten place. I originally thought I'd stumbled across a farmhouse. I did research and f ound out it was a pub. Here is the little information I found. The Ship Inn was situated on Saltfleet Road, opposite the junction with Churchill Lane. Now...

History: Apart from KentOnline has to offer, there is little else online regarding the history of this vessel, but here is what I managed to string together... "The Hillside", constructed in 1970 and originally built as an accommodation barge for the Dutch Navy, has just under 70 rooms and was...

There were three pumping stations on the Manchester Ship Canal, which together with sluices and weirs, regulated the water levels. One of these, at Barton Locks, was turned into a hydroelectric station some time ago. The other two are at Latchford Locks, which remains boarded up and at Mode...

Some buildings on this yard are in use by small engineering companies others were accessible loving the robots and the safety signage hung up in a basement storage area along with a gold tooth! Gdańsk Shipyard was founded in 1946 as a state-owned company, on sites of former German shipyards...

A walk along the landward side of the Manchester Ship Canal from Eastham (Queen Elizabeth) Dock to Manisty Mount. This used to be a wooded marshy area and is now mostly post-industrial wilderness, with broken brick underfoot. The main aim was to check out a couple of small structures at the...

This serie was made in Hungary, Pilismarót. Time: 2011. This floating graveyard with all the ships still above and not under water are waiting to be cut to pieces and reuse. But they rust quickly as they are waiting for their fate since years and the abandoned empty machines, ship bodies...