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Sea Pictures from Dover.
Sailing Ships just off Dover: Europa above and De Gallant below...
We have 340 plus pages below now...use our own SEARCH ENGINE just below to help you trawl through. All pictures are the copyright of the owners.
Editor: Paul Boland - dover7@msn.com
Post 4231
Ed Connell, Dover Strait
Southern Bay at the DCT in the early hours.
Wednesday, 3 May 2017 - 03:43
Wednesday, 3 May 2017 - 03:43
Post 4230
Ray Woods, Canterbury
In the good old days our loved ones could enjoy/brave a sea breeze and go onto the POW Pier to wave us off.
They only did it the once though, complaining to us later that they couldn't see us on deck, even though we were waving frantically at them!
(Our lot are the seven figures lining the rails, to the left of the wall pillar looking from the ship, the dear old 'Saga Rose', en-route to the Baltic in 2006.)
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 22:44
They only did it the once though, complaining to us later that they couldn't see us on deck, even though we were waving frantically at them!
(Our lot are the seven figures lining the rails, to the left of the wall pillar looking from the ship, the dear old 'Saga Rose', en-route to the Baltic in 2006.)
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 22:44
Post 4229
Mark Rushton, Northants
Yes, the demise of Hengist was also reported in Ferry & Cruise Review this month. For more info and some wonderfully evocative old photographs, try googling hhvferry - a website built by an enthusiast of Hengist, Horsa and Vortigern. My last trip on one of them (and I can't for life of me remember which one) was in 2001 on a family island hopping holiday in Greece. We'd been stuck on Paros for 48 hours through high winds and were in danger of missing our flight home from Athens. At midnight the evening before our flight we were met with the welcome sight of an old BR stalwart rounding the headland and berthing to round up the refugees. Inside she still had much of the old signage and even UK three pin sockets in the lounges, so how they got greek hoovers to work on board is a mystery. And whilst we're on the subject of departures, I see you've temporarily lost the European Seaway, which has gone off to cover for refits on the Larne run.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 10:35
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 10:35
Post 4228
Ray Woods, Canterbury
The 'AIDALuna' in Dover last Friday:
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 09:01
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 09:01
Post 4227
vic matcham , Dovor
That cruise liner has lips like my wife.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 08:57
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 08:57
Post 4226
Sea News, Dover
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* Book a crossing with a car and two/four passengers on the Newcastle-Amsterdam route and receive a £20 meal voucher for use in one of the four on board restaurants – to be used on main courses (breakfast or dinner) only
* National Ferry Fortnight deals can be booked from 6-20 May for travel with DFDS throughout 2017
All ships on DFDS’ Dover-Calais and Dover-Dunkirk routes feature a choice of lounge and bar areas; the self-service 7seas restaurant offering hot and cold meals, snacks and drinks; a shop with up to 20 per cent off high-street prices on fragrances, skin care, and cosmetics, plus a range of travel essentials and duty-paid goods; and a Kidz Club children’s play area that provides entertainment and activities for children during the holiday period.
The Newcastle-Amsterdam cruise ferries have recently had a £4.5 million refurbishment and are equipped with four restaurants including the Explorer’s Steakhouse, an all-you-can-eat world-food buffet in the 7seas, the Blue Riband à la carte restaurant and ‘Little Italy’, a pasta and pizza restaurant.
A brand new addition to the on board dining options from May 2017 is the innovative pop-up restaurant, where the chefs will present different monthly menus and delicious exciting cuisines from around the world.
Book at www.dfds.co.uk or call 0871 574 7235 for further assistance.
-Ends-
Many thanks to the team at DFDS for the info above.
Top picture by GEORGE HOLLAND
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AIDAsol
Some pictures here of the fab cruise ship AIDAsol approaching above and arriving below on a very fresh bank holiday Monday...
Will have more pictures of the weekends cruise ships following along in due course so bear with...
Fascinating post from Mike below, don't miss that one 3749.
Bet you enjoyed Mike's post Vic... as you have history with those vessels..
Nice picture indeed by Ed below there of the departing Atlantic Reefer see 3748.
Thanks once again to DFDS for the exciting info above re National Ferry Fortnight.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 04:50
Post 4225
vic matcham , Dovor
Yes sir both of the ships showed I served on. and my boy was one of the crew when the Hengist went a ground+a lot of my welding will be cutout when they cut her up sad but time moves on.
i well it is 0230hrs in the morning.now
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 02:33
i well it is 0230hrs in the morning.nowTuesday, 2 May 2017 - 02:33
Post 4224
Mike J. , Dover
The SEABOURNE QUEST sailed for Antwerp late Monday afternoon.
Remember the HENGIST ?
One of the stalwarts of the last years of the Folkestone/Boulogne service has finally reached the end of her long career.
French-built & entering service for British Rail in 1972 she spent most of her British-flagged career running out of Folkestone seeing out the Sealink era until the Stena took over Sealink in 1991 & almost immediately closing the route.
She was in the headlines in 1987 when she went aground at Folkestone during the great storm of 16th.October.
She was salvaged within a few days but had received considerable damage & did not re-enter service until the following January.
The HENGIST, by then the STENA HENGIST , left British waters as the Greek ROMILDA in March 1992 & spent the rest of her career in the Eastern Mediterranean under a variety of owners & names, finally finishing up as the PANAGIA TINOU for Ventouris Sea Lines who collapsed in 2015 & the ship was effectively abandoned under arrest in Piraeus in where she eventually partly capsized at her moorings in October 2016.
She was salvaged in March this year & was towed to Aliaga, in Turkey for demolition, the final destination of many cross-channel ferries, including, of course, the PRIDEs of DOVER & CALAIS.
She was beached on 23rd.March & the photo shows her soon after arrival before cutting up had started.
Her sister ship, the former HORSA. has been laid up in Greece for several years as the PENELOPE-A & her second sister, the SENLAC, who mostly ran Newhaven/Dieppe before heading for the Med in 1987 was broken up at Aliaga in 2010 as the APOLLON.
A much-loved ship on a route that was preferred by many travellers due to the convenient berth in Boulogne close to the centre of the town & handy for the motorway system [before Calais was connected likewise] & the lack of delays as there were usually only two ships on the service so there was no competition for the berths.
There was much less pressure than busy Dover & Folkestone was often referred-to by the Dover crews as ‘Sleepy Hollow’ - indeed occasionally night services would be cancelled due to lack of traffic.
I sailed on her many times - one cargo that we carried that was discouraged at Dover was the fish lorries, that often dripped smelly fishy drips onto the cardeck & we carried drums of industrial ‘perfume’ to kill the smell.
For more details of the HENGIST’s career & indeed for further detailed information on most of the local ferries & other visitors to this area I’d recommend a visit to the ‘Past & Present’ section of ‘Dover Ferry Photos’ where Nigel Thornton has done a lot of hard work.
Thanks are due to Nigel for permission to use photos from his collection & also to Selim San of Izmir who visits the Aliaga scrapyards almost every week.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 01:55
Remember the HENGIST ?
One of the stalwarts of the last years of the Folkestone/Boulogne service has finally reached the end of her long career.
French-built & entering service for British Rail in 1972 she spent most of her British-flagged career running out of Folkestone seeing out the Sealink era until the Stena took over Sealink in 1991 & almost immediately closing the route.
She was in the headlines in 1987 when she went aground at Folkestone during the great storm of 16th.October.
She was salvaged within a few days but had received considerable damage & did not re-enter service until the following January.
The HENGIST, by then the STENA HENGIST , left British waters as the Greek ROMILDA in March 1992 & spent the rest of her career in the Eastern Mediterranean under a variety of owners & names, finally finishing up as the PANAGIA TINOU for Ventouris Sea Lines who collapsed in 2015 & the ship was effectively abandoned under arrest in Piraeus in where she eventually partly capsized at her moorings in October 2016.
She was salvaged in March this year & was towed to Aliaga, in Turkey for demolition, the final destination of many cross-channel ferries, including, of course, the PRIDEs of DOVER & CALAIS.
She was beached on 23rd.March & the photo shows her soon after arrival before cutting up had started.
Her sister ship, the former HORSA. has been laid up in Greece for several years as the PENELOPE-A & her second sister, the SENLAC, who mostly ran Newhaven/Dieppe before heading for the Med in 1987 was broken up at Aliaga in 2010 as the APOLLON.
A much-loved ship on a route that was preferred by many travellers due to the convenient berth in Boulogne close to the centre of the town & handy for the motorway system [before Calais was connected likewise] & the lack of delays as there were usually only two ships on the service so there was no competition for the berths.
There was much less pressure than busy Dover & Folkestone was often referred-to by the Dover crews as ‘Sleepy Hollow’ - indeed occasionally night services would be cancelled due to lack of traffic.
I sailed on her many times - one cargo that we carried that was discouraged at Dover was the fish lorries, that often dripped smelly fishy drips onto the cardeck & we carried drums of industrial ‘perfume’ to kill the smell.
For more details of the HENGIST’s career & indeed for further detailed information on most of the local ferries & other visitors to this area I’d recommend a visit to the ‘Past & Present’ section of ‘Dover Ferry Photos’ where Nigel Thornton has done a lot of hard work.
Thanks are due to Nigel for permission to use photos from his collection & also to Selim San of Izmir who visits the Aliaga scrapyards almost every week.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017 - 01:55
Post 4223
Ed Connell, Dover Strait
Atlantic Reefer departing today.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 18:16
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 18:16
Post 4222
Sea News, Dover
Cracking posts from the team below, both from Ed and Sarah so don't miss those.
Also see the earlier post from yours truly.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 15:11
Post 4221
Ed Connell, Dover Strait
Atlantic Reefer at the DCT today.
LNG tanker Gaslog Shanghai in Dunkerque West today.
Tug standing by on adjacent berth all the time that the gas tanker is present.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 12:51
LNG tanker Gaslog Shanghai in Dunkerque West today.
Tug standing by on adjacent berth all the time that the gas tanker is present.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 12:51
Post 4220
Sarah, Hewes
Margate's D Class Lifeboat - Tigger Three going out on exercise yesterday.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 07:48
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 07:48
Post 4219
Sea News, Dover
Pictures above there of Balmoral from yesterday with the top shot showing her leaving for Bergen in Norway last night around 6PM. The second shot was taken in the early morning light .. during the blustery conditions. Have also added a little one of Saga Pearl II arriving the day before. She stayed two days and left last night also around 6PM heading for Rouen. Will have another pic or two of Saga Pearl in due course.
Sospan Dau and Kreeft also featured above there. It was very busy once again in the Exclusion Zone last night...we had multi-vessel action all with terrific blazing lights...MP40, both Waddens, MoragM, Kreeft, Sospan Dau...Causeway hasn't rejoined the fray yet.
Well done with those pix below Ed.
Thanks for the info as ever Vic.
Thanks to Ray too.
Cruise Visits:
Colette is a wee bit incapacitated at the moment, out of action, walking wounded...but she has asked me to mention that we have two cruise visits today
The Seabourn Quest
and the AIDAsol
she always adds more detail but I will leave it at that for now...she will be back later in the week with the next batch.
Heck of a busy cruise ship period as you can see.
Atlantic Reefer also in Port - must have come in during the wee small hours of the morning.
PaulB
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 05:55
Post 4218
vic matcham , Dovor
Done some welding repairs on her years ago ,do not know if that was the name of her then.it was a good ship with good food and they looked after us for a few days.
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 03:12
Monday, 1 May 2017 - 03:12
Post 4217
Ed Connell, Dover Strait
Cote d'Albatre having departed Dunkerque East seen passing Dunkerque West.
Duzgit Harmony at the DCT today.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 23:07
Duzgit Harmony at the DCT today.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 23:07
Post 4216
Ed Connell, Dover Strait
Russian frigate Admiral Essen proceeding down the Dover Strait yesterday.
Shadowed by the Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 22:45
Shadowed by the Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 22:45
Post 4215
Ray Woods, Canterbury
Cargo Dock works in progress, from Deck 9 of the 'Saga Sapphire', 28 April 2017.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 12:28
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 12:28
Post 4214
Ray Woods, Canterbury
I'm particularly interested in the destinations that the cruise ships' passengers are offered for their shoreside excursions.
For many, it's a trip to London, for others a mixture of Canterbury, Leeds Castle, Hever Castle &c.
A destination which has recently become popular is to, of all places, Rye!
I hasten to add that I'm not denigrating Rye as the town is well-known to me because of past family hotel connections, but I don't think that there are that many attractions there.
Perhaps the excursions take in Winchelsea, as well as Camber Sands - it would be interesting to find out!
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 12:18
For many, it's a trip to London, for others a mixture of Canterbury, Leeds Castle, Hever Castle &c.
A destination which has recently become popular is to, of all places, Rye!
I hasten to add that I'm not denigrating Rye as the town is well-known to me because of past family hotel connections, but I don't think that there are that many attractions there.
Perhaps the excursions take in Winchelsea, as well as Camber Sands - it would be interesting to find out!
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 12:18
Post 4213
vic matcham , Dovor
Thank you for the remarks sir but I was not the only one working there Going back to our port,yes we are getting just a small drop in the number of calls by the cruise ships, but more next year,there are more ports in theUK for them to call at now and as we all know money talks so some cruise lines call where the cost is lower.
But when all the work is done the number will go up again with lots more for all to see and stay in Dover with all the new shops as well as the work done to the port.Again some great photos of the bigger kind of cruise ships now calling in,years ago when the port first open to the cruise ships they were very small,we still welcome them today but also nice to see the real big ones.I would love to go on one of them,my family go a lot some times 3 times a year, but my funds do not go that far.But you never know I have just stopped doing the Lotto and now doing the post code one will give that a try for a few months to see if we can do better.
.I hope you liked the true story about piling .I will tell
one more soon which will make you smile but for myself at the time it looked like ----.
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 07:11
Going back to our port,yes we are getting just a small drop in the number of calls by the cruise ships, but more next year,there are more ports in theUK for them to call at now and as we all know money talks so some cruise lines call where the cost is lower.But when all the work is done the number will go up again with lots more for all to see and stay in Dover with all the new shops as well as the work done to the port.Again some great photos of the bigger kind of cruise ships now calling in,years ago when the port first open to the cruise ships they were very small,we still welcome them today but also nice to see the real big ones.I would love to go on one of them,my family go a lot some times 3 times a year, but my funds do not go that far.But you never know I have just stopped doing the Lotto and now doing the post code one will give that a try for a few months to see if we can do better.
.I hope you liked the true story about piling .I will tell one more soon which will make you smile but for myself at the time it looked like ----.Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 07:11
Post 4212
Sea News, Dover
A few extra pictures now of the Serenade of the Seas as she arrived yesterday morning 06.20. She was a magnificent visitor for sure and hugely welcome...you can see her sequenced arrival below... she left last night at 2100 hours on the button, sailing away in an exotic blaze of glamourous light, heading for Zeebrugge and beyond..
That's Sospan Dau in the foreground there...
Great pictures below there from both Mike and Ed
we really gave her some excellent coverage.
Today we have Balmoral in as well, so the cruise liners are coming thick and fast, we can hardly keep up. And still with us...is the Saga Pearl II. They look great on a blustery fresh morning.
There you are Del, it all helped up there as you trek back and forth supporting the canaries..
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 06:54
Great pictures below there from both Mike and Ed
we really gave her some excellent coverage.
Today we have Balmoral in as well, so the cruise liners are coming thick and fast, we can hardly keep up. And still with us...is the Saga Pearl II. They look great on a blustery fresh morning.
There you are Del, it all helped up there as you trek back and forth supporting the canaries..
Sunday, 30 April 2017 - 06:54