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Plymouth Pilot Boat "Maker"

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Negotiating the Cobbler Channel

A routine job for the Plymouth pilot on the bridge of the 15,000 ton tanker Bro Deliver, with twin steerable propellers and a bow thruster the tug Prince Rock has little to do, although she assists when the tanker is turned through 180 degrees before going astern to the discharge wharf.
Immediately prior to this routine job the pilot carried out a more unusual job, piloting the Tall Ships Youth Trust sailing brig Stavros S Niarchos onto a floating pontoon off the village of Turnchapel. 150 years ago several of the men of Turnchapel were pilots for the Port of Plymouth.

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Brig "Stavros S Niarchos"


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Early the following morning in flat calm conditions the "Stavros" put to sea.

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Fleet Review Week - Oct. 2013 - Sydney Harbour

HMS Daring is the lead ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy, and the seventh ship to hold that name. She was launched in 2006 on the Clyde and conducted contractor's sea trials during 2007 and 2008. She was handed over to the Royal Navy in December 2008, entered her base port of Portsmouth for the first time in January 2009 and was formally commissioned on 23 July 2009. Wikipedia.

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A famous lifeboat

This is the former Salcombe lifeboat "Samuel and Marie Parkhouse" which served on the Salcombe station the whole of her working life, that is from 1938 until 1962. She was specially designed to cope with the difficult conditions that can occur on Salcombe Bar where, on 27th October 1916, the lifeboat "William and Emma" capsized with the loss of 13 of her 15 man crew. One of the two survivors was Edwin Distin who was coxswain of this lifeboat for her entire working life. On 7th December 1939 this lifeboat was launched at night to go to the aid of the Belgian steamer "Louis Sheid" that had gone aground west of Salcombe off Thurlestone. Unbeknown to the lifeboat crew the Louis Sheid already had 62 survivors on board from another Belgian ship that had been torpedoed by U47 so the lifeboat had to go alongside the casualty three times in very difficult conditions evacuating people to Hope Cove where they were transferred to rowing boats that had put out from the village, all this in the early hours and in total darkness and on a falling tide. For this rescue Edwin Distin was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal and the crew all got Bronze Medals. Edwin Distin himself later won a Bronze Medal for another rescue. When he died his ashes were scattered on Salcombe Bar where 57 years earlier he'd nearly lost his life.

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When a tanker with just the old conventional single screw form of main propulsion arrives at Plymouth two tugs are required with both shackled to the tanker to guide her through the Cobbler Channel and into the Cattewater. Her the tanker "Winter" is being taken in, the Cattewater Harbour Commissioners tug "Prince Rock" is on the bows with the more powerful Fowey Harbour Commissioners tug "Morgawr" on the stern.

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The next two images taken on a far more pleasant day show the "Morgawr" setting off to return to Fowey which is about 15-20 miles west along the coast of Cornwall, a nice cruise I would imagine for the crew. Holiday makers would pay good money to do that!

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The tanker "Furenas" lies alongside the oil terminal at Cattedown. She's looking a little high in the water so discharging of her cargo must be nearly complete although two discharge pipes are still attached. A small laden vessel, the "Bounder" is coming down stream. She's almost certainly come from Corporation Wharf carrying a cargo of steel scrap, possibly bound for Portugal. She's a foreign registered ship since she's flying the Red Ensign at the masthead as a courtesy to the country she's in. Above her bows there's a tower on the end of a large house. That was built at the behest of a retired ships captain so he could look out down river to observe the shipping. That's the village of Oreston where I grew up in the 1950's and it was said that there were some 32 retired ships captains living in the village. Most would have captained very small sailing vessels that had hung on trading locally until the 1940's.

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Sure enough by the time the pilot had taken the "Bounder" out and returned the "Furenas" was ready to sail.

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Just where is Nolsoy? I'd never heard of it. It turns out it's one of the Faroe Islands, who'd have guessed that was her port of registry. Just where is she bound now?

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Just where is she bound now?

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These images were taken about 7 years ago, thanks to the power of the internet I now know she's been sold and is now called "Hai Gong You 309" and at the time of posting she's about 200 miles north of the Falkland Islands heading south and looking to clear the Falklands to the east, there's no stated destination but she began that voyage after leaving the Las Palmas Anchorage. It would suggest that the current situation has left her, and doubtless many ships like her, rather short of cargoes.

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HMS Somerset (Type 23 class Frigate)

This ship has actually entered shot from the left hand side, you can just see the remains of the wake to the left of the West Mallard Buoy, and then made a turn to starboard of more than 90 degrees to bring her on to her present course. Anything much larger and she would have been accompanied by tugs such as SD Careful seen below.

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Tug from Royal Navy Dockyard - Devonport

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The coal fired paddle steamer Kingswear Castle, built at Philip and Son shipbuilders in Dartmouth in 1924, at Totnes on a round trip from Dartmouth, the place of her birth in August 2016.

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Maintaining the port

One rather grey and misty morning a somewhat unwieldy looking vessel came sailing down from the direction of the naval dockyard.
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It dropped anchor in front of the West Mallard buoy and launched a small inflatable over the side with two men in.
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The crane was then shackled to the buoy and it proceeded to lift it out of the water.
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The copious amount of seaweed growing on the buoy was then removed by pressure washing the buoy.
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When it was reasonably clean it was hoisted aboard the SD Navigator.
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Then the new buoy was attached to the old mooring chains and lowered into position.
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