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Copyright Dennis Durrant, 2005/2011                                                             

          PHOTOGRAPH  GALLERY

This interesting vessel is "MPI Resolution", a self propelled barge.   She is berthed with her "legs" lowered onto the harbour bottom.    No tugs needed she travels to where she is working and sits on the seabed as a normal barge.   She is 7000 tonnes and 130 meters in length.   By the stern are wind farm components.      In the distance the Scroby wind farm forms a backdrop.  

After two years adorning the outer harbour, moving from this end to that end and having their one chance to show their all  taken away when the containers waiting to be loaded were taken to another port and other cranes.   Fare thee well, enjoy the sunshine and labours you were made for in Venice.   Photo as printed in Mercury by Dennis Durrant

Sunny Sunday afternoon.  Burgh Castle churchyard with myriads of snowdrops

SVANEN

The giant floating piledriver which works off Sheringham  helping build the new offshore windfarm

Svanen is unable to work in high winds and needs to go to shelter during such periods.   I have come to regard her as my rough weather warning.  Until recently she would shelter in the outer harbour but now seems to have taken to coming close in to shelter inland of the sandbanks which is just what sailing ships did in the 19th century and earlier.  Whenever visible will put note on index page.               phoitos:  Dennis Durrant

Dauntless arriving at the outer harbour 

Left:  Coming in with berthing tug.

Right:  tugs moving her into position to take her alongside.

Left:   Moving steadily to berth by the unused container cranes.

Right:  safely now at the quay where she will be receiving her visitors.

HMS Dauntless is a type 45 class destroyer with an air defence role.   She is one of three with another three planned.   Dauntless has an air missile system which can control several air missiles in the air at the same time.   Other armament include Stringray anti-submarine torpedoes launched by helicopter also a main gun for bombardment.

Her length is 152.4 m, or more than the length of one and a half football pitches.  The hull is 2,800 tonnes of steel  while her power plant can supply enough electricity to light almost all our borough.   To keep her at sea the fuel tanks have the capacity of half an Olympic sized swimming pool.   All in all she is the most sophisticated air defence destroyer the navy has ever had  and with stealth technology allowing her not to show up on radar.    HMS Dauntless has a crew of nearly 200 and cost just over one billion pounds.

Photos Dennis Durrant

BROOME PITS - LOVE THE COUNTRYSIDE YOU WILL LOVE THIS.

PLEASE RESPECT THIS PRIVATELY OWNED AREA, OTHER VISITORS AND THOSE FISHING

An enthusiast going fishing at Broome Pits

Broome Pits, as the area is known, is natural heathland close to the old town of Bungay.     The area contains an ancient barrow.    The lakes which are popular with fishermen were created when gravel was extracted during world war two to build nearby Flixton airfield.

An ideal place to walk the dog but please keep them under control and leave noting behind but footprints!     The area is varied with surprises at every corner and a great place for the children to explore or  the more mature to just take a leisurely  stroll.

Why not take a stroll through nearby old Bungay after enjoying the charm of this hidden part of our  Norfolk countryside.

OR

The Aircraft Museum at Flixton, not only a museum but also an interesting outdoor display of aircraft just two or three miles from Bungay is well worth a visit.

                                           WINDOW DRESSING AT THE OUTER HARBOUR, 10TH MAY, 2010

The two cranes joined by a seajack and a piece of equipment  which is the "hammer" that will drive the bases into the seabed for the windfarm, in for a short stay en route to Sherringham

A selection of six topical photographs from Steve Crane

Three fishermen!

Get out of my bath!!