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A few shots from a joint training exercise between the French and the British to test the new French emergency response tug.
The FS Garonne pulled the assault ship HMS Albion past the coast of Devon to test out its strength and abilities.
The Garonne is one of four new Loire-class support ships built for the French Navy. They are designed to provide multiple services, from supporting diving operations and pollution control to assisting submarines and surface ships, including salvage and towing
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Wow Shackletons Endurance found in immaculate condition sitting on the seabed 3km deep in Antarctica, have a look at the video in the BBC article the pics dont do it justice:
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WB Yeats loitering just off Lambay Island, most likely waiting for her berth in Dublin to be vacated....
The joy of having a sea view from my home office is matched only by the pain of having the same sea view, and having to actually work!!
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The Radio Caroline ship, Ross Revenge, being battered in heavy seas in the mid 1980's. The mast is 300ft high (tallest structure ever placed on a ship) and note that the ship is at anchor and is straining against it's chain restraints. The footage was filmed from the bridge of the MV Communicator, home of the pirate station Laser 558, anchored about a mile away from Caroline at the time. The Communicator had a much shorter mast and it too was damaged in the gale, as you can see from the video.
The mast on The Ross eventually collapsed totally in November 1987. The crew were gathered in the record library to sit out another particularly bad storm, when there was a sudden thunderous crashing sound and the ship listed to the side as the mast came down and leaned into the sea. When the weather improved, it was cut free, to sink into the waves. The shot at the end of the footage is out the bridge window, where the view should have been of the lower base section of the tower, immediately outside.
A photo of the ship and mast in 1986. 300 tonnes of concrete was poured into the base of the ship to counteract the momentum of the mast.
In November 1991, the ship broke anchor and ran aground on the notorious Goodwin Sands. It was salvaged and impounded by the UK authorities. Eventually, it was returned to a Caroline Supporters group who have restored it to broadcast condition and it is still used one weekend every month, for radio broadcasting. Radio Caroline now has a local AM broadcasting licence and the ship is open to visitors at its anchored position one mile offshore in the River Blackwater estuary, Essex. Due to insurance regulations, the mast is now only one third the height of the original design in this photo.
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A US Coast Guard helicopter lifts crew from the Golden Ray, a 656ft vehicle carrier capsized in St Simons Sound, near Brunswick, Georgia, in 2019
From a very good article on how specialist salvage operations cut up and strip down shipwrecks at sea
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