dredger Mersey mariner emergency prop repair

The dredger Mersey mariner underwent some emergency repairs late today. Some old cable has become wrapped round one of her prop shafts damaging a seal. To save docking the vessel she was tied up in the river near the Liverpool Arena at the Albert dock and beached when the tide went out! they were hoping to get the repair finished before the tide came in.

Mersey Mariner dredger at work + more

Watched the "hopper" dredger "Mersey Mariner" working at the lock gate entrance to birkenhead docks, pleny of other ships on the river too, the usual movements off the roro terminal at 12 quays and a few chem products carriers were inbound and going out too. All these pics are on 35mm film, now using Fuji reala 100, its excellent film with virtually no grain and is very sharp, pity the conditions today did not really do it justice. Nikon f80 and sigma 70-300mm zoom.