Sea News...
- 29 August 2013 07:54242301Nice ones there Howard..lovely colours.
I havent been up at that viewing area for a couple of years now. used to pop up regularly. Great views to be had from there for sure.
Ive added a pic of the ship leaving last night to the old frontpage..gosh it looked big as it left the harbour.
http://www.doverforum.com
Today no cruise liners, but the ultra modern three master Eendracht is sitting in the bay of the harbour. Much too grey and misty for a picture at the moment but we have had her here before. I will keep an eye out and if the conditions get better will do the honours.email: dover7@msn.com - 29 August 2013 09:27242307one taken by brian yesterday. judging by the lack of angling persons here it seems they must have heard a cry from the bridge of "does anyone know how to drive this thing?"
- 29 August 2013 15:10242377lol!!
well done again Brian.
As promised here is the dutch sailing vessel Eendracht. Its clearer now that some of the earlier mist has gone and the sun has come round a tad. The ship has been gently resting here all day.
email: dover7@msn.com - 29 August 2013 19:18242425The Eendracht left a few moments ago in fine style..if you look closely you can see the skipper and crew.
"..bound for Valparaiso round the horn "
No no.. I must leave these seafaring dittys alone! There are pills for it I believe...
She is actually bound for Flushing.
Bon voyage to our Dutch friends
email: dover7@msn.com - 29 August 2013 20:16242474Flushing ? Someone needs to explain the loo situation to them!
- 30 August 2013 13:58242564one of our regulars in today greeted by rough seas.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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30 August 2013 15:19242572oh look the old golden arrow pub,the horse shoe shaped building bottom right..and the sink ports pub bottom left. - 31 August 2013 04:07242670Re #897:
The warship is one of the three German "Sachsen" class frigates, two of which are depicted below.
PaulB took this photo of the "Hessen" passing in 2011:
I took this photo of the "Hamburg" passing in June this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen-class_frigate - 31 August 2013 07:52242676Good spot Ed..gosh how do you do it. Brill !
Trust that Brian lad to know where the pubs are..lol. Those pix from up top are always good to see.
Ps: Thats a fascinating one with the pubs, are those pubs still open for business I wonder??
But here we are with a beauty today...the Costa Romantica. They still keep right on coming in fine style. The colours this morning are very different. Not bright, but moody and autumnal. Very good for pictures.
here she comes..approaching from the east
and one more closer in..a short time later
email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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31 August 2013 07:56242677some great photo'sALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 31 August 2013 09:28242696A largely Italian passenger contingent on the Costa neoRomantica so they'll feel right at home with the Italian market in town today! Don't forget to support this great initiative and bag yourself some Italian goodies for the weekend!
- 31 August 2013 09:33242698very stylish liner, pleasant weather too to greet the passengers that venture into town.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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31 August 2013 09:55242705paulb,the sink ports is still open,but sadly the golden arrow is not.
there used to be 3 in that spot the other was the rose and crown,a little futher out where the bridge crosses the a20 to p&o/megger was the archcliffe fort pub.now long gone. - 31 August 2013 11:52242727See the history of the Cinque Port Arms on the website below:
http://www.dover-kent.com/Cinque-Ports-Arms.html
This is part of a comprehensive history of all the pubs in Dover originally compiled by Barry Smith in his work "By the Way" and constantly updated by Paul Skelton to give the definitive website version below which constitutes a fascinating social history of Dover:
http://www.dover-kent.com/1Pubs-list.html
Incidentally, the pronunciation of Cinque Ports is indeed "sink ports" as per the phonetic spelling in Brian's post, and not "sank ports" as one might expect, since it is derived from old French. Click on the little loudspeaker symbol on the link below. To be pedantic, the pub name is actually Cinque Port Arms not Cinque Ports Arms.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/the-cinque-ports - 31 August 2013 14:37242749NATO STAFF TAKE TOUR OF HMS BULWARK
"The Commander of Naval Striking and Support Forces at NATO (STRIKFORNATO), Vice Admiral Frank Pandolfe USN, paid a visit to the Royal Navy's Fleet Flagship HMS BULWARK. VAdm Pandolfe took the opportunity to visit the ship while she was alongside in Lisbon this week as part of the multi-national exercise Cougar 13. The aim of the visit was to evaluate the use of HMS BULWARK as a future Alternative Command Platform (ACP) to the current platform of choice - the USS MOUNT WHITNEY. (First commissioned in 1971)"
This news comes at a rather unfortunate time as USS Mount Whitney is flagship of the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and we all know that our government has decided to keep out of the Syrian conflict. However, the very close cooperation between the RN and USN will doubtless continue unaffected.
USS Mount Whitney passed Dover a few weeks ago:
HMS Bulwark staged a remarkable amphibious landing in Dover in 2008, with the beach lined with landing craft, as the homeward stage of a Help for Heroes bike ride through France.
- 31 August 2013 17:04242756Ed's middle pictures down reminds me of this event on 31 May 2008 and what could have been a very embarrassing situation. My account is based on what I saw, what I heard on my VHF scanner and the comments made by seagoing friends who have more knowledge than I.
HMS Bulwark entered the harbour and by pumping out (or in!) lowered her stern to allow the landing craft to be launched. It seems that just at this moment one of Dover's notorious currents took the vessel which started to slowly drift towards the shore. Having expended most of the available power Bulwark was temporarily unable to counter this drift. With the first of the landing craft already heading to the beach the only thing available was the tiny harbour launch Dovorian. At this point I heard on the radio a request for the tug Dauntless to attend as a matter of urgency (this being the only tug operating at the time). As circumstances had it Dauntless was assisting the Pride of Canterbury onto her berth. You may recall that the Canterbury was operating on only one engine at that time following her grounding on the Goodwin Sands ..... therefore the tug's assistance was a necessity.
The next thing I saw was the second harbour launch, Director, hurtling out of the Western Docks to give Dovorian some assistance, and as soon as it was possible Dauntless charged over to recover the whole situation.
If anyone has a fuller or more accurate account I'd be interested to hear it, - but I dread to think what the sensationalist element of the press would have made of this had things really gone wrong!.
Quite by accident I recently found a clip on You Tube which shows the first part of what I describe.
You see the launch of the landing craft, the Dovorian initially moving into position, the arrival of the Pride of Canterbury (and the Dauntless) and in the last couple of seconds of the clip you see Director arriving on the scene. Nice to see that most people were quite oblivious to this and nothing took attention away from the Help for Heroes event.
I took a whole load of pictures from the Admiralty Pier, so I couldn't really see what was going on. However, a friend of mine got a shot from the beach just as Dauntless arrived to join the launches.
- 1 September 2013 02:36242810Well, knock me down with a feather. Had no idea all that was going on. Have watched the above video and looked at other photos I took with Bulwark in the background and can see it all happening clearly. Here is an enlargement of the centre of one photo showing Dovorian furiously pushing away in a cloud of spray.
- 1 September 2013 02:53242812Sad to relate, the Dover Ferry Photos Forum was closed down yesterday. Dwindling interest and competition from Facebook and other internet sites being the main reasons, together with all the work involved in maintaining it. I shall miss it greatly but times change and one can well appreciate the reasoning behind the closure. The main Dover Ferry Photos website, which is an invaluable source, continues as before. It is just the forum which is closing.
http://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/wordpress/good-things-come-endbut-great-fun-whilst-lasted/
One of the forumites has attempted a replacement discussion board, Dover Ferry Enthusiasts Forum, and we shall see whether it flourishes.
http://dfe.boards.net/ - 1 September 2013 07:31242816Great stuff above lads
Re post above (918), sorry to hear about that Ed. I knew of the site of course, never been a member but sad to hear their forum is going. All these smaller local sites need to be supported if people want them to stay in operation. Its tough now in the wake of the all encompassing Facebook.
Some of you will have noticed we were making a few changes ourselves over the past few days. Chris has added a comments section now on the old Doverforum frontpage and I reckon the best move right now is to do the Sea News section over there now and let my contribution to this thread here go. We had a good long run with this thread thanks to all the contributors.
So I am hoping all you regular Sea Newzers .. Ed, Howard, ColetteB, Brian, Kevin, John, Tom, Jacqui, Keef etc and anyone else who likes to drop in occasionally will join me over there. Its a good platform with wider viewing potential ..on google search engines etc.etc..and is very easy to use. it has open membership so maybe some of the guys from Dover Ferry Photos might like to stick up a picture or two.
Strictly just for sea, sailing, shipping etc etc
The page is not entirely done yet still a few bits to do..Chris is at the coalface shovellin as we speak
http://www.doverforum.com/sea-news/
NOTE: The super big Carnival Legend back in today since very early. Worth a sunday stroll to see it.
Plenty of pictures of it in our earlier posts..email: dover7@msn.com - 1 September 2013 07:43242817Boss your sanity is sadly missed on this Forum.
