Hull Docks 1980s Part 7 by Bernard Sharp

King George Dock

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This is the final part of our series of Bernard Sharp’s dock photographs from the 1980s and like the others contain some amazing images. This gallery also contains two photographs from 1975 of the sailing barge Ethel, taken on Bernard’s Brownie. 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. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. North Sea Ferries vessels at No.5 Quay; Gilyott & Scott’s’ Firecrest’ barge at No.7 Quay opposite.
2. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 21 July, 1975. ‘Ethel’, sailing barge, built Harwich 1890s as a linseed carrier. Brought across the Atlantic for the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. Reportedly sank in the dock, New London, Connecticut, USA, circa 1992; subsequently dismembered.
3. Ethel as above.
4. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 13 April, 1985. The Humber Guardian, based at King George Dock, was responsible for the maintenance of all the lightships and buoys in the Humber estuary. Operational 1967 to 1993.
5. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 13 April, 1985. Humber estuary light-buoys in the dry dock.
6. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 21 April, 1984. ‘Starmar Anglia’ registered at London; possibly moored at No.12 Quay.
7. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. The grain silo, built 1919, No.2 Quay, as seen through travelling cranes at No.1 Quay.
8. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 15 June, 1986. One of ‘North Sea Ferries’ vessels at No.5 Quay viewed from No.11 Quay.
9. Chemical Works, Salt End, Hedon, Sunday, 25 August, 1985. Viewed from King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull.
10. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 15 June, 1986. ‘Pholas’, built 1958, by Robb Caledon, Dundee, an oil drilling research/survey vessel. Renamed ‘Norskald’ circa 1996. Moored at No.7 Quay. In the foreground, ‘Salvageman’, originally owned by United Towing of Kingston upon Hull, was Britain’s largest and most powerful ocean-going salvage tug for many years, taking part in the Falklands War in 1982.
11. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 14 September, 1986. ‘Magic Mercury’, a tanker for bulk liquids, built 1974. Probably moored at No.7 Quay. On the right is London Atlas built in 1967 by Harland & Wolff Shipbuilding, North Woolwich, a floating crane operated by Humber Work Boats. Sold in 1992 and renamed the Schwimmkran Atlas.
12. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 14 September, 1986. Two stern trawlers undergoing maintenance at the graving dock. The foremost is ‘Norina’ FD324, built 1975 by the Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co. Ltd. Initially registered at Fleetwood, ‘Norina’ was transferred in 1982 to Kingston upon Hull as part of the Marr Group; sold 2002. Still operative, in Spain.
13. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 8 December, 1984. Dockside mobile cranes at No.7 Quay.
14. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 4 May, 1986. FRG 1st USB Squadron S193 (submarine of the Federal Republic of Germany), with No.1 Quay in the background.
15. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 13 April, 1985. Cargill’s grain silo; ship and travelling cranes at No.1 Quay.
16. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. ‘Isar’ of Hamburg discharging a cargo of bauxite into trucks on the quayside. The grain silo can be seen in the background.
17. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 21 April, 1984. North Sea Ferries’ ‘Norstar’ at No.5 Quay.
18. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 14 September, 1986. Two of ‘North Sea Ferries’ passenger ships at 5 Quay.
19. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Wednesday, 4 April, 1984. Moored at No.1 Quay, the tug ‘Lady Cecilia’ was built in 1966 by Babcock Marine Appledore, Devon.
20. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 23 July, 1985. Crane at the graving docks.
21. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 21 April, 1984. ‘Doulos’ at No.7 Quay. Built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company for the Mallory Steamship Company; launched 22 August 1914. Purchased in 1977 by OM [Operation Mobilisation] Ships International, a global Christian training and outreach movement. The ship arrived in the Port of Hull 6 April 1984 and departed 1 May 1984. ‘Doulos’ was recognised in the ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ as the world’s oldest active ocean-going passenger ship.
22. King George Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Saturday, 21 April, 1984. Viewed through a travelling crane is the grain silo, built 1919 and the Grimsby tug, Lady Alma built 1966, by C. D. Holmes & Co, Beverley.

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