This gigantic crane is mounted – somehow – onto a ship, the Seaway Alfa Lift operated by Seaway7 and can lift 3000 tonnes. The boom is normally lowered and stowed flat over the bow but it was undergoing some kind of maintenance while in port. I tried to capture it juxtapositioned with the gantry crane in…
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#629 – Marchwood Port
This photograph is of a scene that I saw and photographed knowing that there was potential in it, but I’m not sure if I’ve managed to bring that potential out yet. Marchwood is a military port, but unlike Plymouth and Portsmouth it is not a dockyard. Rather its purpose is more to load cargo ships…
#307 – Chatham Dockyard 2 – Chains, Trains and Cranes
As well as the ships, the yard is stuffed full of all types of mechanical goodness. There is a short section of the once extensive railway system intact, along with a number of operational steam and diesel engines that work on some weekends. The big slipway is also full of a huge collection of machinery,…
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