SHORT SEA SHIPPING
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May-June-July 2006
Left, Inward for the Manchester Ship Canal is Stolt tanker "Stolt Guillemot" right Coastal Containers vessel " Coastal Deniz" inward to Seaforth via Langton Lock, pictured passing through the Alexandra-Hornby passage.
Left & Centre, Still trading under the MacAndrews name, the weekly services to Spain and Portugal operate with chartered tonnage, "Werder Bremen" & "Doerte" head towards the S5 Berth. right, short-sea tanker traffic operating through the Manchester Ship Canal, Fisher Tankers vessel "Rudderman" outward at the mouth of the Mersey.
Left and centre, two views of Gracechurch Container Line's "Gracechurch Star" outward from Gladstone Lock, right Seaforth's S6 berth with "Coastal Deniz & Coastal Wave" alongside
"Sand Swan" fully loaded inward in Langton Lock, September 2003.
Three views of Vessel's under the Andrew Weir Shipping Group sailings from Liverpool,
L to R, "City of Liverpool" "Churruca" and "City of Manchester" all photographed in the early 1990's.
Coastal Containers "Coastal Bay" en route for Gladstone Lock.
Coastal Containers "Coastal Isle" in the River off Gladstone Lock.
A 1990 View of Gracechurch Line Vessel "Gracechurch Star"
working at Seaforth Container Terminal.
Ramsey Steamship Co. "Ben Varrey" loading grain at Seaforth's transhipment dock.
Pandoro charter Vessel "Lembitu" now renamed "Celtic Sun" backing to her berth at No.3 Gladstone Dock.
"Weibke" at Seaforth November 1999, Discharging parts of a Container Crane for construction on site. Further pictures and details of this operation are at