Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Waterborne Wednesday: Liverpool workboat

Crane boat

A mystery from my Manx trip. Spotted in Liverpool, while we waited to board the ferry, was this boat with a crane on the end of it. Oddly, I didn't take many photos, mostly because the view was obscured by the plans you canjust see in shot. 

Had I managed to bag the name of the vessel, we could have looked it up, but in this case, Buddleia stopped play!

4 comments:

  1. Steven B8:39 AM

    Looks like MSC BUFFALO.

    There are a number of ship tracking websites that are useful for working out the names of ships you can't see clearly enough to read the name.

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  2. Excellent spot - a quick dig online provides lots of photos - https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/235083197

    What a cracking model it would make. But only after I built the other 50 or so projects I have ideas and kits for!

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  3. Sarik do these plans for a sand dredger.https://www.sarikhobbies.com/product/grab-hopper-dredger-esk/ but also see http://georgedentmodelmaker.blogspot.com/2017/05/day-of-dredger.html

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  4. Oddly the ship Chris's model is based on has ended its days about eighteen miles from here as a target on the Holbeach range. There is very little left today

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