There is a constant stream of reefer vessels discharging into George Hammonds's cold storage facilities at the Dover Cargo Terminal (DCT) on the South Jetty in the Eastern Docks. They carry fruit stowed on pallets in the refrigerated holds and in refrigerated containers on deck. The vessel shown is the Star Pride which is one of a series of newbuildings belonging to Star Reefers. There are several of these on a long term time charter to Del Monte carrying bananas etc from Central America. This is one of her sister ships, the Star Standard, berthed on the DCT:
The other photo #2 is quite gobsmacking. That this ship should still be around beggars belief. Most ships are scrapped after not much more than twenty years. This vessel, the Athena, is over sixty years old, being built in 1948. What is even more extraordinary is that, in her former life as the passenger liner Stockholm belonging to the Swedish American Line, she was the vessel which collided with the Italian transatlantic liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island in 1956 resulting in one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in history. The collision happened in dense fog as a result of misinterpretation of radar information and is regarded as being the first example of the now frowned-upon expression "radar assisted collision."
The most poignant story of that dreadful episode is that of a fourteen year old girl who was asleep with her mother and sister in a cabin on the Andrea Doria when the bows of the Stockholm ripped into the side of the ship, killing her sister and depositing her onto the forecastle of the Stockholm. From going to sleep in a warm cabin in the Andrea Doria, she awoke to find herself lying amid the twisted wreckage and swirling fog on the crushed bows of the Stockholm, where a crewman heard her calling for her mama.