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Television reporter Robert Reid takes a journey on the British Waterways tug Primrose from Avonmouth Docks to Worcester calling at Sharpness and Gloucester Docks in a film made to promote the commercial use of waterways before the age of the container.
My thanks to Hans-Christian Rieck for spotting this one.
The modern Shtandart – a replica of the frigate Shtandart that was the first ship of Russia’s Baltic fleet launched in 1703 by the decree of Tsar Peter I – was tied up in Ramsgate Harbour over the weekend.
My pal Ian Carter kindly sent me these photos.
She’s 90ft in length on deck and 23ft wide – which doesn’t seem very large when her original crew complement in 1703 was between 120 and 150! Read about her here and here.
Thanks Ian!
The legendary giant squid sea monster is real. Perhaps not quite as big as this picture suggests, but I wouldn’t fancy the chances of a human who got into a fight with one… They’re capable of eating two to three metre fish, apparently.
How do we know this creature exists? Biologists at New Zealand’s AUT University recently dissected a defrosted one and the whole thing is on YouTube.
For an earlier Intheboatshed.net post about giant sea monsters, click here.
