History: Built in 1970 and laid up in Liverpool since 2010, apparently because the company that owns it went bankrupt. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ai...12/mmsi:-6913510/imo:6913510/vessel:SAND_SWAN http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1821472
Currently moored in the Sandon Half Tide Dock, this was looking a bit sorry for itself, rusty, with pigeons flying in and out of the portholes. Someone has already been in and chucked stuff about.
External view from the roof of a little building at the end of the neighbouring Bramley-Moore Dock. There appears to be a shrine to this boat on one of the windowsills of the Bramley-Moore pumphouse https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/bramley-moore-pumphouse-liverpool-sept-2017.109887/. The last explore of the summer holidays with junior, aka ‘the lighting bitch’.
The hopper on the left is where the sand/sludge/mud ends up after being sucked up through the hoover schnozzle pipe. On the right the mechanism where pipe swivels down.
Sucked-up material goes through a coarse filter then down the chute, with excess water draining back out to sea through sluices on the sides - which is why these little boats always seem to be spouting water as they chug around maintaining the shipping lanes.
Currently moored in the Sandon Half Tide Dock, this was looking a bit sorry for itself, rusty, with pigeons flying in and out of the portholes. Someone has already been in and chucked stuff about.
External view from the roof of a little building at the end of the neighbouring Bramley-Moore Dock. There appears to be a shrine to this boat on one of the windowsills of the Bramley-Moore pumphouse https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/bramley-moore-pumphouse-liverpool-sept-2017.109887/. The last explore of the summer holidays with junior, aka ‘the lighting bitch’.
The hopper on the left is where the sand/sludge/mud ends up after being sucked up through the hoover schnozzle pipe. On the right the mechanism where pipe swivels down.
Sucked-up material goes through a coarse filter then down the chute, with excess water draining back out to sea through sluices on the sides - which is why these little boats always seem to be spouting water as they chug around maintaining the shipping lanes.
