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Sandman
03-04-2009, 10:43 PM
Today finaly saw the loading of the Swan Hunter goose neck cranes.
They where first stripped down in situ on the SH quayside and loaded onto SH own floating drydock along with a smaller floating barge crane. These where then secured in place and have been sat awaiting shipping to there new home in India.

Today the "Osprey" submersible barge came into the Tyne to load the dry dock and its cargo.
The Osprey was flooded down and the drydock floated into place before being raised under the whole dock lifting cranes,dock and all.

Unfortunatly I didnt get any pictures of that but I beleve mudlark has so will put up my shots from this afternoon.


At aprox 5:00pm tugs moved into place to edge the Osprey out from her berth at The Port of Tyne.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/landyloony/Swan%20hunter%20cranes/IMG_1962.jpg

Shortly after at 5:30pm the Osprey began the first leg of her journey...

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/landyloony/Swan%20hunter%20cranes/IMG_1970.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/landyloony/Swan%20hunter%20cranes/IMG_2002.jpg

... aproximatly half a mile down river to her overnight berthing place.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/landyloony/Swan%20hunter%20cranes/IMG_2003.jpg


Also attending was mudlark and a couple of the regulars from NEUE.
hopefully more pictures to follow

The Osprey is now sheduled to lie up at her current location overnight and will leave the Tyne tomorow at 4pm taking another piece of our industrial heritage with her

boxfrenzy
03-04-2009, 10:50 PM
A sad day indeed. Well done for getting the all important historical shots :thumb

**MudLark**
03-04-2009, 10:54 PM
a very sad day indeed. I've added some pics to the tyne yards update thread... we must have been putting our pics up at the same time!!!

escortmad79
04-06-2010, 10:03 PM
The remaining cranes were blown up today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10239575.stm

Sandman
05-06-2010, 09:44 PM
Gutted I didn't know about that. Can't believe they didn't preserve them :(


they have mate - working in umpah lumpah land
:thumbd