Atlantic Horizon

Atlantic Horizon

Postby Whickham » Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:20 pm

ATLANTIC HORIZON leaving the Tyne after her conversion at Hebburn

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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby tynebuoy » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:00 pm

As you were at the Viking Ind Estate for the first two photos and Shields for the last i think these were taken 14.03.1999 when she headed to sea for the first time.
She returned 25.03.1999. She went to Velva 31.03.1999. Left Velva for sea 01.04.1999.
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby Whickham » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:38 pm

Ahh, but what did I have for my lunch that day? :evil:
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby tynebuoy » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:12 am

A couple of cheese and tomato sarnies as you said you were taking mrs.w out for a slap up meal that night, i remember it well.
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby Whickham » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:28 am

Got that wrong!

The slap up meal WAS the Cheese & Tomato sarnies.
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby northeast » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:54 am

Seems to be a lot of 'slapping up' going on around the Tyne, we don't treat our wimmen like that at meals (maybe before, yes).
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby creemaster » Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:48 pm

Tizer or vimto with the sarnies ??

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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby tynebuoy » Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:09 pm

This is old wickham we're talking about here so it would be Pimm's!
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby creemaster » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:49 pm

So it will be Murray mints to go with his Pimms and strawberries and cream
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Re: Atlantic Horizon

Postby jmbrent » Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:35 pm

Hi, this vessel was towed from Klaipeda in Lithuania to Tyne Tees dockyard where she was converted to a seismographic vessel. She had been totally stripped of all her machinery and accommodation, the only thing left in her hull was the tailshaft, rudder and propeller. The hull had been shot blasted inside and out and primed prior to her leaving Klaipeda. She had all new machinery and pipework and accommodation fitted in her rebuild by Tyne Tees dockyard. When she was almost complete and lying alongside the West jetty at Hebburn during a gale at night she snapped her moorings and took off down the river, she listed and one of the extending array towing arms slid out and bent the for'd mast and bridge front on the Northumbrian Water sewage vessel moored at the Howdon sewage works, before tugs arrived and brought her back to Hebburn to complete her conversion. The reason I know so much about it I was working as foreman fitter at the yard and working on the vessel, they were truly happy days working for Mr,Albert Le Blond. Micky
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