Rotra Mare with HMS Tyne in the background

Stena Forecaster ro-ro cargo

Waiting to enter A&P drydock and Smulders Yard filling up again

Earl of Zetland R.I.P

Built in 1939 in Aberdeen, she operated between Shetland and Orkney as an inter-island ferry until 1975. Used as a survey vessel until conversion into a floating restaurant in 1988.

Dismantled in situ, as she was too big for the lock, in October 2020

Golden Bonnie. Inbound empty (for barley)

Waiting for HMS Diamond

Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond (D34) inbound with Port of Tyne vessel Clearwater, in the drizzle

Newbiggin’s Couple watching the cable-layer Ile de Brehat at work

Princess Seaways and friends

Eemslift Nelli out from Shepherd’s Offshore Park

Lowest tide this year

Tynemouth Haven, the foundations of the first North Pier, that was washed away in 1898, the remains of a Victorian landing stage, the notorious Black Middens rocks (with the Prior’s Stone), and former Dutch sailing vessel Mallemok with Tynemouth Lifeboat.