For any Old Dockers

[Shelagh]

Some great historical pictures, fascinating to see the construction of the Liver Building, brilliant!
Love the thought of those hard working dockers playing footie during their dinner hour - nifty move by the bloke in the long trench mac

Thanks Dan!

[Dan]

August 23 2020. Photo of Bootle looking over towards Formby, taken by the Hawarden Police helicopter.

Click on the photo and a larger version will open in a new window.

[Dan]

Don't understand the objections to the re-development of the Bramley-Moore.

We lose a redundant dock and an area of Walton gets a shot of much needed investment.

[Dan]

1903 Alexandra Dock



No date. Alexandra Dock and Grain Silos

[Dan]

Couple of photos of the Royal Seaforth Dock construction, from the Sefton Digital* site.

November 27 1969 Construction of the Seaforth passage.




March 25 1970 Aerial view of the construction of the Seaforth passage.





* Sefton Digital hosts a number of facebook-based locally themed sites. Growing up in......, kind of thing.

The Memories of Growing Up in Bootle is a public group. The Waterloo/Seaforth and the Crosby forums are private groups.

Never felt the need to go on FB. If I did, I'd block you all from my facey page.

[Dan]

Foreground showing the Gladstone and Royal Seaforth Docks, containing Cargill's soya processing plant and the Seaforth Corn Mill.

New Brighton in the distance.

[Dan]

April 2016. Church Road Litherland.

With the container traffic it now carries, it ought to be renamed the Dock Road.

[Dan]

Bootle April 2016

[bob. b]

Dan, fantastic pictures mate

Bobby

[Dan]

harry
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Photos posted 10 years ago by Harry, probably taken in the 1960's.

Gladstone from the river. The Mammoth crane is on the left.



View from Crosby looking towards Liverpool, prior to the Royal Seaforth construction.



Working in the Gladstone graving dock.



Graving dock gates.



Stanley Clock Tower

[Dan]

From the Bootle Times February 15 1973. Working in the engine room.

[Dan]

Looking at the destruction covid is causing the cruise line industry.

Aliaga in Turkey seems to be getting a lot of the breakerage business.

In the first picture below, it looks like three of the Carnival cruise liners, on the right, are being broken up.






Ships that are due for the breakers yard or have been taken out of commission are below.

1971 - 2020 Black Watch




1973 - 2020 Boudicca




1984 - 2020 Marella Celebration




1986 - 2020 Marella Dream




1988 - 2020 Sovereign




1990 - 2020 Carnival Fantasy




1990 - 2020 Horizon




1991 - 2020 Monarch




1994 - 2020 Carnival Fascination




1995 - 2020 Carnival Imagination




1996 - 2020 Costa Victoria




It's fairly certain there will be more to follow.

[Dan]

CMA CGM Jules Verne docking in Hamburg. Spot the nutter in the centre foreground.



CMA CGM Brazil sailing into New York.



LNG powered CMA CGM Jacques Saade

[filsgreen]

Great photos, Dan, thanks for posting. How many boxes does Jules Verne carry and what is LNG power?

[Dan]

The Jules Verne capacity is rated at 16,020 TEU, which is twenty foot equivalent units (containers).

All the real biggies are now 20,000 + TEU.

The Jacques Saadé runs on LNG(liquified natural gas), so it will easily pass any future sulphur emission regulations.

The Jacques Saadé is rated at 23,112 TEU. First voyage was ex Singapore on October 12 this year.

[Dan]

Grain warehouse collapsed in the port last night at Seaforth.

Strange I would have called it a corrugated shed.

Not much of a match for the Alexandra or Waterloo Dock grain stores.

[lynne99]

Dan, all I can say is "oops" Was it very windy?

[Dan]

A bit Lynn, but even very windy shouldn't blow a building down, unless it's been built by one of the three little piggies.

[Invicta]

Looks like the grain forced the sides out K

[Dan]

Two humpback whales spending Christmas in New York harbour.

[Dan]

Apus ONE loaded in China bound for Long Beach California, had to turn back when 1,816 containers went AWOL.

[Dan]

Liverpool skyline by Colin Lane of the Liverpool Echo.

[Dan]

1950 Launch of the Royal Iris.

[Dan]

Photo of Bootle docks taken posted on reddit last year by Squeaki, who works as an aerial surveyor.

[Dan]

Container ship the Ever Given is stuck in the Suez Canal.

Could be there a while.

[Dan]

May 2015. Queen Mary 2 at Crosby.




Undated. Queen Mary 2 in Hamburg dry dock.

[efc46]

enjoyed from an expat davey rowlands

[Dan]

Cheers Davey.

Comparison of the Titanic with one of today's cruise ships.

[Dan]

Two photos from aeroengland.

They magnify x500 without pixellation.

[Dan]

Ever Ace passed through the Suez Canal, August 28 2021.

Largest containership ever, weight 235,000 tonnes. Can carry 24,000 containers.

[filsgreen]

Amazing, Dan. Makes you wonder how it remains stable in bad weather.

[Dan]

Below is a graphic of the container ship backlog of the US outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday.

The wheels have fallen off the global supply chain for the time being.



From Zero Hedge:

"As a result of the surge in client interest in supply chain issues on the West Coast, Goldman recently introduced the PMI Manufacturing

Suppliers’ delivery times index from IHS Markit to its supply chain congestion tracker. Purchasing managers respond to IHS Markit’s PMI

surveys indicating if it is taking their suppliers more or less time to provide inputs to their manufacturing. Above 50 indicates that supply

delivery times are faster and below indicates that delivery is slower. Manufacturers have reported significant increases in delivery times,

with the current index level in September at 16.6 - down significantly from July 2020 of 47.2."


Extract from a Reuters report, earlier this month, on the situation in Germany.

"BERLIN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - German industrial output suffered its steepest drop in August since April last year, due to supply chain

disruptions that are holding back growth in Europe's biggest economy and hitting the auto sector particularly hard, official data showed

on Thursday.

The Federal Statistics Office said industrial output fell by 4.0% on the month after an increase of 1.3% in July.

A Reuters poll had pointed to a decline in August of 0.4%."

[Dan]

Visualisation of the backlog at the Port of Los Angeles.

[Dan]

From the Echo. Floors 1-6 of the Tobacco Warehouse are complete. Floors 7-13 to be completed.

View from Warehouse



Inside





Huge space to heat.

[J.F.G]

Hello Dan

They will not have that view for long when Everton build their stadium . I Hope a few shilling will be spent on the Victoria Tower, the only other six sided clock is in Russia I believe.

Regards

John