This is a gallery of the Trinity House Vessel PATRICIA.
She recently paid a visit to Hull Wm. Wright Dock for some repairs. I was lucky enough to see her on the ABP Humber Pavis report and made my way down there to see her as she arrived. As always, I went down to the river with my dad.
It was my intention to go down to the Pier to shoot her from there. As it was we parked up on the Victoria Dock estate and got the camera and tripod out. When we reached the riverside we decided to setup nearby "The Deep" as we found a seat that we could sit on whilst waiting for her to arrive.
There were a couple of coasters passing by for the upriver wharves - the MONICA and RMS RIGA.
Sadly the MFV BILBO BAGGINS was also out from the marine and had a part on board to scatter some ashes out on the Humber.
When the THV PATRICIA arrived I was very much in awe of her. Whilst having been built around 30 years ago she has a style of a much older vessel with a Cruiser stern and a funnel like that of a steam ship. I really enjoyed seeing her and I doubt there are many working vessels around of this high quality of construction.
Trinity House was granted a charter by Henry VIII in 1514 and is the General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar and is responsible for a range of general aids to navigation. The main concern of Trinity House is to ensure the safe passage of shipping by providing and maintaining Aids to Navigation that include lighthouse, light vessels/floats, beacons, radar beacons, buoys and DGPS (differential global positioning system) satellite navigation reference stations.
Trinity House is responsible for the annual inspection of Aids to Navigation provided by local port and harbour authorities and also responsible for marking and removing obstructions, such as wrecks which are a danger to navigation.
THV Patricia is the Trinity House flagship and her duties include the maintenance of navigational buoys, supplying offshore lighthouses with fuel and dealing with emergencies, including the marking of wrecks.
THV Patricia is 86.3m long, with a beam of 13.8m, a draught of 4.45m and speed of 14 knots. She has a helicopter landing deck aft, towing winches that enables the moving of moving light vessels to and from their stations and a 20 tonne speed crane which enables her to lift the largest navigational buoys.
The vessels base port is Harwich on the East Coast. While working along the varied coastlines she regularly calls into other ports and harbours. It is while engaged in work along the South Coast that the THV Patricia has called into Southampton.
As well has being a working vessel she has six double-bedded cabins which can accommodate up to twelve passengers, making an unusual, but interesting holiday experience. All cabins have en-suite bathrooms, tea/coffee making facilities, satellite television, computer/e-mail links and trouser presses.
Passengers have dining room and a lounge that opens out on to a viewing deck where they can view the day-to-day activities of the vessel and the varied coastline of England, Wales and the Channel Islands.
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All images taken with >
Samsung GX-10 dSLR (10.1 MP)
Schneider-Kreuznach 18-55mm
Sigma 50-500mm APO RF f4~6.7
Hoya 86mm Skylight 1A filter
Hoya 86mm Circular Polariser
Kood ND2 / ND4 Filters
Cokin ND Grad Filters
Manfrotto 055 Pro B tripod w/ 804RC2 head
Pentax MZ-S w/ SMC-M 28/2.8, SMC-M 35/2.8, SMC-A 50/1.4, SMC-M 135/35
Filmstock was my usual:
C41 - Fuji NPC 160
C41 - Fuji Superia 100
C41 - Fuji Superia 400
C41 - Fuji Neopan 400CN
C41 - Kodak BW 400CN
Images have been manipulated in Adobe Photoshop CS & IrFanview.
Spotted for sensor dust (where applicable.
Levels and contrast adjusted. |
