Photos of Ships that have used the Port of Liverpool Docks.

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1958 Princes Dock.
The Original Berth,s for the Irish Sea Services. The Leinster and Munster vessels and Belfast Ferries Ulster Queen And Ulster Prince.The Old Coast Lines :wink: :)

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The Royal Daffodil Ferry, Crossing The Mersey. :wink: :D

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New Brighton Pier 1887. :wink: :)

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The Mauretania on her maiden voyage to America 17th June 1939. :wink: :)

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One of the Cunard Line’s Steamships, The SS Parthia, at Liverpool Docks. January 1895. :wink: :)

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Crew forced to abandon container ship as it tips over in dramatic Liverpool2 scenes. :(
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... p-16324675
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They were lucky there, Joe :shock:
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Phil wasn't they just. :wink: :)
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The Manfred at the Seaforth Container Port. :wink: :)

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Nice pic Joe.
She looks bigger than she actually, tiny for a container ship. The Registration of St Johns is Antigua, not Canada.
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Thanks for that info Ken. :wink: :)
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Abandon Ship HMS Bronington, Sinks In Liverpool Dock. :( :shock:
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Port side view of the Edmund Gardner on station off the old landing stage. Clarence Dock Power Station in the background, the 1950s. :wink: :)

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Sinyeh in the Birkenhead Docks early 1970s :wink: :)

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MS Empress of England, an ocean liner, was built in 1956-1957 by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle, the United Kingdom for the Canadian Pacific Steamships. The ship was launched in 1956 and she undertook her maiden voyage in 1957. She was a near identical sister ship to Empress of Britain. The Empress of England was intended for sailing between Liverpool and Montreal. The ship was launched by Lady Eden, the wife of the Prime

Minister Anthony Eden on 9 May 1956. Empress of England's maiden voyage began on 18 April 1957. The ship sailed from Liverpool bound for Montreal, Quebec. Trans-Atlantic crossings continued until starting her last regularly scheduled crossing which began on 14 November 1969. The ship accomplished some cruises before she was sold in March 1970. :wink: :D

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MSC ELENI, At the Container Port of Liverpool. :wink: :)

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HMS Albion was commissioned on 26/05/1954. She is pictured arriving at Prince’s Landing Stage on a visit to the port. She was open to the public. In 1973 she was sold for conversion into a heavy lift vessel for the North Sea oil exploration. However, the plans didn’t materialise and she was broken up in Faslane. :( :wink:

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HMS Ulster was a U class destroyer that was commissioned on 30/06/1943. She was later converted into a Type 15 anti-submarine frigate with the pennant number F83. She was used for training in the Sonar Control in the 1960s, and later as a training hulk at HMS Raleigh, she was broken up in 1980. :wink: :D

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Detail from just right of the centre of the panorama showing a ship approaching Albert Dock, No date. :wink: :)

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Isle of Man SS King Orry beached at New Brighton 1921 :wink: :)


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Pirates On The Dock Royal Albert Liverpool. :wink: :)

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SS Malakand no date. :wink:

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A scene of the Coburg to the Queens Dock no date. :wink: :)

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Elder Dempster’s and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Pizarro, in the Huskisson Dock 1955. :wink: :)


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The polio was a small oil tanker designed to deliver fuel directly to vessels. No date. :wink: :D

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It’s called “bunkering “ Joe. Some that feed the big cruise ships are not so small and can take all day to fill them up. Ken
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Thanks for that info Ken, when the polio was working, I suppose it was state of the art back in the day. :wink: :)
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The Royal Yacht Britannia, berthed at the Landing Stage, for a visit of the Queen to Liverpool, no date. :wink: :D

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The Atlantic Conveyor moored at Bootle Docks, April 1982. :(

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Colchester Castle approaching the Langton Lock 2015. :wink: :)

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Nice pic Joe .
She’s a bulker and light, I wonder what she would load in the Langton?
Is that where the scrap metal was ?
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Thanks, Ken but It’s not my photo. You can just see the mounds of scrap metal in the background on the left of her. :wink:
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The Bramley Moore tug boat taking the Gingha Hawk out of Langton Dock no date. :wink: :)


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Cunard’s fast cargo liner Andania, left, with ocean liner Sylvania at Sandon Basin Liverpool,1960s :cry: :)

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Joe.

Thanks for your many very interesting and nostalgic photos on this thread.

I must admit I have never followed it closely but have just read through it.

My interest was really fuelled by your three photos of HMS Conway (16 Jan. March 4 and April 5) which I never realised had berthed in Liverpool.

My very first job was as a galley boy on that Blue Funnel ship in 1950. I drew my uniform from the Alfred Holt office in India Buildings and my weeks wage was 12s 6d. Being six feet tall I had many problems with the headroom being only 5ft 8ins inside the ship. Seems sailors were quite small when it was built.
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