Hull Docks 1980s Part 2 by Bernard Sharp

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Queen Elizabeth and William Wright

Thanks very much to Bernard for the permission to use both the images and text – all copyright Bernard Sharp and published under licence. All of the photographs are numbered with the corresponding text by Bernard to accompany each photograph below the gallery.

  1. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. Pioneer Severodvinska, cargo ship of the U.S.S.R., built 1975, at No.10 Quay.
  2. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. Pioneer Severodvinska, cargo ship of the U.S.S.R., built 1975, at No.10 Quay. In the foreground, buoys adjacent No.9 Quay.
  3. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. Activity on 10 Quay.
  4. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. Light buoys adjacent to the roll-on roll-off terminal.
  5. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. The buoy tender vessel ‘Humber Guardian’, operational 1967 to 1993, was responsible for the maintenance of all the lightships and buoys in the Humber estuary. The vessel was sold, converted to a cruise ship and renamed ‘Tropic Sun’ in 1994. On the quayside, a variety of light buoys.
  6. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. At No.9 Quay, ‘Hans Kroger’, general cargo vessel, built 1973 as ‘Baltic Consort’, registered Hamburg.
  7. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. Vrouwe Alida, general cargo ship, built 1976, at No.10 Quay.
  8. Queen Elizabeth Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985.Vrouwe Alida, general cargo ship, built 1976, at No.10 Quay.
  9. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 1 July, 1984. ‘Swanella’, Marr-owned stern trawler moored at north side of the dock.
  10. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. General view of trawlers in the dock; looking south-west.
  11. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. On the quayside of the dock is what maybe a rully, a four-wheeled cart used in the movement of heavy goods. The operator was called a rullyman. The inscription ‘KST Co.’ is etched into the side of the rully, presumably indicative of the owner, as yet unidentified.
  12. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. Travelling crane at the graving dock. At left, ‘Powerful A223’, Adept class tug, launched 1985, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS).
  13. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. Alongside No.28 shed, ‘Recovery’, operated by Northern Divers (Eng) Ltd., established 1963 as the U.K.’s leading underwater engineering service. Based in Kingston upon Hull.
  14. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. ‘Powerful A223’, Adept class tug, launched 1985, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS).
  15. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. ‘Dagfari’ moored on south side of the dock
  16. William Wright Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. Ship undergoing repair in the graving dock.

All of the images and accompanying text are copyright Bernard Sharp and used with permission and under licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard

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