YED PRIOR

[Patrick Hill]

Outward from RSQ this morning. She had arrived yesterday and part discharged, returned this morning to complete and sailed for sea.

[northeast]

Impressive set of kit. I see she's the former container ship B G. IRELAND, and converted in 2020.

[Hornbeam]

Her main base is at Harlingen where the Company that owns her have a large washing/processing plant for aggregates with Barges taking the product inland to European Customers, ' Yed Prior' as mentioned is indeed a former Container Ship, quite a recent costly conversion. Previously another vessel owned by another Company used to deliver the material but they must have thought it was viable to have their own vessel. You have to wonder if they come across dumped munitions, certainly on the TCC Reclamation Plant there was stacks of the smaller munitions out of the discharge pipe. With the Pumps being all electric you could hear the metallic stuff rattling through.
The other Suction Dredger previously used was called the "Scelveringne" again fairly new and a very smart looking vessel she normally offloads at Ijmuiden on the Jetty opposite the Cruise Liner Berth.

[northeast]

Does this mean that the canal above Goole has re-opened as understood that the RQ dump was to feed barges into the canal.

[Hornbeam]

It is indeed a great shame that our Canals are not 'worked' as much as those on the Continent, most of the Accommodations on Dutch Barges are up to the standard of a luxury Motor Yacht albeit it is usually the Skippers home, they no longer bother having a Funnel due to having not one, not two, but three cars sat on the Aft accommodation block and the Barge exhausts piped out the Stern making the Barge a Knot faster

[Patrick Hill]

We were supposed to be getting SPAUWER to discharge a larger dredged load so YED PRIOR was out of the blue. And yes George, the canal was reopened a few weeks back, I think there are 3 barges running with aggregates and EXOL PRIDE with liquids.

[northeast]

Good news, Patrick.

[Hornbeam]

Patrick you seem to be in the know, in which area are they Dredging? Thank You.

[Patrick Hill]

Patrick you seem to be in the know, in which area are they Dredging? Thank You.

not really. Most of the sea dredged aggregates appear to be from off the East Coast - YED PRIOR is currently off the Binks east of Spurn.

[Hornbeam]

Thanks Patrick, interesting that a lot of the old Airfields on land West of Spurn Point are or were "harvested" for aggregates all the way up to Scorton nr Richmond but of course Planning permissions can be hard to come by on land excavation. Must be a rich seam running under Yorkshire and Offshore, hopefully they keep away from the Coast near Cowden
The Son and I spent many a day there watching the Americans and RAF 'Skip Bombing' off the Coast until half the Firing Range fell into the sea due I believe to the Groynes being built Offshore at Easington to protect the Gas Plant from also falling into the sea. They just moved the erosion problem up the Coast.
I wonder if all this dredging Offshore could be part of the problem.