A friday on the river mersey

Took a walk to New brighton today to have a look out onto the bay. Caught the tanker "Grena" as she was leaving off tranmere terminal. Also outbound was the P&O carrier "norbank". They both headed of into a very stormy looking irish sea.
got the container ship "endeavor" as she entered the mersey and also the tanker "MT Navion hispania", bound for tranmere oil terminal, the tug Svitzer Stanlow was in tow, Finally a B&W pic of new brighton light house, been a while since i last up there

Back after a few days off ;-)

Not been down to the river for a few days so took a walk today, some movement, Caught the "lagan viking" leaving bound for Belfast and the P&O carrier "norbay" on its way to dublin. Also here is what turned out to be a rare site this year, the IOM steam packet "superseacat 2" on the mersey, this shot taken in october as she left liverpool. After a season dogged by bad weather and mechanical problems she is now laid up in liverpool docks, her service has been replaced by the "Ben macree"....

Old Egerton dock, birkenhead

Took a walk around the old egerton dock in birkenhead on friday morning. This dock has not been used for many years and is infact cut off from the rest of the dock system now, surrounded by buisiness centers and a college it serves as a place for water based sports etc with a jetty and launch ramps at one end. The bridge has been left in place and is used as part of the road access to the area, Fuji s5000, B&W conversion in PS elements....

Friday 23rd, lovely weather but not much shipping ;-)

small tanker "cape esmerelda" left this morning, ahead of her was the dredger "City of Cardiff". caught the ro-ro ferry "Mersey Viking" moored at the birkenhead RoRo terminal, The "liverpool viking" had left a little earlier...Finally a wide shot of the ever changing liverpool waterfront, new hotels on the left

Mersey Viking on the mersey

A regular to the river, the Mersey Viking left birkenhead ferry terminal this morning. Misty conditions for the most part

Low flying in wales "the machloop"

Spent the 15th nov in wales near Dolgellau watching the raf practise low flying in the valleys. Not a lot of traffic, just 3 hawks from RAF VAlley. Some days there is nothing thru and other days there can be lots of it. All pics on a nikon F80 35mm camera with a sigma 300mm lens on fuji 400 film

Tanker Propontis and tug Svitzer Stanlow

A few more pictures today of the russian tanker propontis and the tug Svitzer Stanlow on the river, the terminal at Tranmere seems quite busy at the moment with at least one carrier moored there every few days and sometime two, average tonnage seems to be around the 70.000 mark

Strange looking ship arrives on the mersey today

The car carrier "Asian Sun" arrived on the mersey today, helped in by at least 3 tugs. The russian tanker "Propontis", almost 70.000 tonnes left tranmere bound for murmansk...

Bit of black and white!!

Tried some black and white convertions in photoshop over last few days, some pics with fuji s5000 digital and some with nikon f80 35mm with kodak 200 film, a different take on the mersey...

Lest we forget

Took a walk down to the cenotaph on the promenade at wallasey, weather was ok. Rememberance sunday is coming up.................pic says it all really

Another busy day on the river

Quite a bit of traffic today, large tanker bound for tranmere and a heavily laden container ship leaves liverpool, lots of tugs out today too, weather not bad, some showers. High tide and high winds made it more interesting too..

A busy hour on the river

A walk along prom yesterday to get some shots of the mersey mammoth floating crane did not come about, instead got some shots of 3 regular ships leaving the river, all ro-ro type, weather was not too good

Liverpool city 800yr celebrations, night time skyline

Taken from the wirral side of the river, liverpool on the eve of its 800yr celebrations, just before the fireworks started, new hotels are to the left of the liver buildings, which are to the left of the searchlights. Handheld 2 sec exposure as i had left my tripod at home, fuji s5000

Unknown carrier on mersey, early morning

spotted slowly travelling down the river, probs bound for eastham or birkenhead, early morning light was very good, bit of cropping and very happy with it ;-)

Seascout Tanker leaves the mersey 5th nov 2007

Hi to anyone reading, not done this before but thought some might find it interesting to see whats frequenting the river mersey at the moment. Cant guarantee i can get there everyday but coupled with info from the ais liverpool website i can track and photo most ships and craft using the river.

Most pics will be a mixture of digital and film, quality is not always good as the weather can be very bad, especially the light. There will also be some pics from the lowflying areas in north wales

Anyways......This is the tanker seascout leaving the mersey asfter birthing at tranmere for a few days.......

Type:	Tanker (80)
Details:	Crude Oil Tanker
Size:	244m x 42m x 12.5m
Tonnage:	57301gt, 106330dwt
Built:	Jan 2004