Hull Docks 1980s Part 4 by Bernard sharp

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ALBERT DOCK

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.

There’s also an Albert Dock Part 2 with a focus on training sail and tall ships and the Golden Hinde (replica) visit at this link – click here.

  1. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. The Grimsby seiner ‘Grenaa Pearl’ GY 178 sandwiched between two larger trawlers.
  2. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. Three seiners from Grimsby moored alongside the north side of the dock.
  3. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 October, 1983. Trawlers on the southern quay, and various vessels on the northern side of the dock.
  4. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 10 July, 1983. The Spurn Lightship is moored on the south side of the dock.
  5. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 10 July, 1983. The Spurn Lightship is moored on the south side of the dock. Following the opening of Hull Marina, the refurbished lightship was then moored at the north side of Humber Dock, and open to the public. Update: As part of Hull Maritime, a £30m project funded by Hull City Council and The National Lottery Fund, the Spurn Lightship is again undergoing restoration with new displays to tell its full story.
  6. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 14 April, 1984. Hebble Sand, a grab hopper dredger, built 1963 and still active.
  7. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. Grimsby seiners moored on the north side of the dock.
  8. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 October, 1983. When St Andrew’s Dock was closed to shipping, the city’s fishing fleet transferred to Albert Dock. Depicted are several trawlers.
  9. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 30 August, 1983. The trawler ‘Navena’ leaving the dock and entering the Humber estuary. Not long after this photograph was taken, the ‘Navena’ was beached off Scarborough.
  10. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. Al Mustafa, Moroccan trawler, built 1973.
  11. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 7 July, 1985. ‘Swanella’, Marr-owned stern trawler moored at north side of the dock.
  12. Albert Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 6 May, 1985. Stern trawlers Arctic Riever LO 341 and Arctic Challenger LO 342, built 1975 by Clelands Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend. LO 341 was decommissioned 1998 and scrapped.

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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