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Old Codgers Group
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HMS Defender, a type 45 Daring class air defence destroyer, commissioned into service in March 2013 and weighing 8000 tons with 2 x 28,800 shaft horse power Rolls Royce gas turbines capable of 29 knots enters Devonport dockyard from her anchorage off Cawsand, Plymouth Sound on 20th May 2013
Leading proceedings is the Admiralty pilot launch Tamar Racer to make sure the weekend and amateur sailors give them a wide berth
The tug SD Adept has a line to the bows of HMS Defender to assist in steering the ship through the narrow and winding buoyed channel up to the dockyard. In the background is the helicopter and commando carrier HMS Illustrious, 22,000 tons and now one of the older ships in the service, having been launched in 1978
Lead tug SD Adept
Assisting tug if needed SD Careful
Passing between Mount Batten and Drake's Island
Swinging round in the buoyed channel having passed to the port side of the West Mallard buoy in a stretch of the waterway known as the Hamoaze, rather inappropriately thought to mean "the manor close to the shallow, muddy creek", not applicable to this stretch of the Tamar.
Barrie
Leading proceedings is the Admiralty pilot launch Tamar Racer to make sure the weekend and amateur sailors give them a wide berth
The tug SD Adept has a line to the bows of HMS Defender to assist in steering the ship through the narrow and winding buoyed channel up to the dockyard. In the background is the helicopter and commando carrier HMS Illustrious, 22,000 tons and now one of the older ships in the service, having been launched in 1978
Lead tug SD Adept
Assisting tug if needed SD Careful
Passing between Mount Batten and Drake's Island
Swinging round in the buoyed channel having passed to the port side of the West Mallard buoy in a stretch of the waterway known as the Hamoaze, rather inappropriately thought to mean "the manor close to the shallow, muddy creek", not applicable to this stretch of the Tamar.
Barrie