With close ups of the barge ‘leg fittings’ and sacrificial zinc anodes on the legs.
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- Big Lift’s Tracer outbound from Shepherd Offshore
- Tug: Duke II with barge RoRo4
- Little and Large
- Lingestroom taking back the empties
- Blyth on a sunny May day
- Bremen Fighter with UR 902, the old way
- Aegir on it’s way
- Bits and pieces
- Aegir – Deepwater Construction Vessel
- Another day – another tug and barge
- Greenbarge with tug Fairplay 33
- WILHELMINE
- Union Mantra
- VOS Prelude
- A 803 HNLMS Luymes
- Grand Canyon III
- Offshore support vessel Aethra
- GMS Endeavour up high and GMS Evolution down at Blyth
- Tug Atlantis outbound with barge Offshore 1, from Van Oord at Swan’s Yard.
- Bibby Offshore, supply vessel Olympic Ares
- Farewell HMS Tyne and odd looking craft
- A busy day
- Barge ‘Offshore 1’ with tug Atlantis and later came barge BC6299 and tug Forth Drummer
- Sandnes – self-discharging stone carrier
- Blyth today
- And they keep on coming
- Barge Louis with tug Union Lynx
- Nice big tug: Britoil 120 with barge Greenbarge 2 and THREE harbour tugs.
- Fog on the tyne
- Blyth January 2018
- A winter’s day in Blyth
- ‘Greenbarge 2’ bringing bits for ‘jackets’ to Smulders. Tug Bugsier 10 and illegal(?) fishermen on the pier.
- Dredger in – Dredger out
- A winter ferry ride
- Grab dredger ‘Aase Madsen’
- Normand Flower
- Tug ‘Union Sapphire’ bringing in barge ‘Louis’ to Smulders and a look at the new Smith’s Docks riverside development.
- Blyth 23/11/17
- Arklow Manor in Blyth
- New design jackets
- Swordfish supply vessel returning – after sea trials(?)
- Simar Esperanca
- HHL Elbe leaving & passing HHL Lagos
- Deep Explorer, dive support vessel outbound
- Normand Pioneer forwards and Seven Arctic going backwards.
- And then we were five
- Fiddlers Green memorial to all lost fishermen.
- Busy Blyth
- Cable barge Ulisse with tug Mustang, followed by ‘tug’ Nero.
- Barge UR99, tug Union Sovereign and Thomson Celebration in the background.
- Stad Amsterdam
- Comings and goings
- Norwegian Jade
- Neptune, Eraclea, UR 902 and O.T.Ideaal
- Lynemouth biomass
- Boaty McBoatface leaves for Liverpool
- Last of the towers
- Tugs everywhere
- Too windy
- New cruise liner for The Tyne
- First wind turbine ‘jackets’ from Smulders’ bound for wind farm off Scotland, with tug Centaurus.
- Specialist barge Terra Marique with tug MTS Indus
- Ultramax bulker
- Tyne & Blyth
- And the second at dusk
- The first gravity base turbine tower leaves
- 3 lying-off
- Barge UR96 with tug President Hubert and others + Gravity towers.
- Four still there and one going
- BNS Bellis
- Trouble at t’dock
- DSV Curtis Marshall
- Royal Netherlands Navy – Hydrographical Survey Ship – HNLMS Snellius (A802)
- Cable-laying pontoon, ‘Ulisse’ with tug ‘Mustang’ inward to A&P.
- One in two out
- Seven Seas Explorer
- Fivelborg and RNLI RIB
- Thomson Celebration
- New Crane and other stuff
- Ships that pass in the day
- Lifeboat rescue C1861
- Rough and sunny
- A sunny afternoon
- More yellow things
- Lord Nelson
- An afternoon out
- First Cruise and new cafe
- April already
- And there’s more …
- Another day, another barge
- Barge RORO4 with Multratug 20
- One busy day
- Turbine bases update
- Return of barge CS1 and Multratug 20
- Bibby Polaris
- Sea Tantalus
- Edda Freya and WB11
- Industrial Challenger
- Eemslift Ellen outbound in sleet
- Leaving Blyth
- Turbine bases under construction
- Blyth today
- Missed a couple
- Black Watch – An unexpected visitor
- A long way to go
- Sea Challenger return
- Stema Barge II with tug Onyx
- Four more in the rain
- And out again
- Barge and tug
- Normand Maximus
- Atlantic Tonjer
- HMS Blyth
- Morning pair
- Now you see it ……
- Polfoss and stuff
- One in one out
- And out again
- HMS Richmond
- ‘Painting The Sky’
- Blyth again
- Normand Seven and friends
- Another X-Bow
- Eco-friendly
- Blyth Harbour
- I nearly missed it!
- Artania’s turn today
- Koningsdam – the biggest yet
- AIDAvita
- Olympic Delta
- Marina cruise ship
- Busy morning
- I see three ships …..
- Rolldock Sky
- Normand Seven
- Changed again
- Stavros S Niarchos
- Maersk Connector
- Outward bound
- Seajacks Zaratan
- Ghostly
- Skandi Africa
- Regent Cruises – Seven Seas Voyager
- A day of contrasts
- Berlin
- ZUIDERDAM
- Another set of legs
- Ocean Diamond
- MPI Discovery
- Cable-layer ‘Cable Enterprise’ with tug ‘Norne’
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What are these structures on the barge used for ?
Seen in Edinburgh today
Bases (Jackets) for wind turbines off the far north-east of Scotland.