27th June 2016 Cruise:- Gravesend - Southend -
Chatham - Round Sheppey - Southend - Gravesend
IMO number: 5034927 - Name of ship: BALMORAL - Call
Sign: MDMZ - Gross tonnage: 735
Type of ship: Passenger Ship - Year of build: 1949 -
Flag: United Kingdom
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This page shows images from the
Balmoral cruise from Gravesend -
Southend - Chatham - Round Sheppey - Southend - Gravesend. I joined and left
Balmoral at Southend.
To sail on Balmoral contact:-
http://www.whitefunnel.co.uk/
This page shows images from the
Balmoral cruise from Gravesend -
Southend - Chatham - Round Sheppey - Southend - Gravesend. I joined and left
Balmoral at Southend. Due to repair works on Southend Pier, there
were no pier trains running.
To sail on Balmoral contact:-
http://www.whitefunnel.co.uk/
Southend Pier - RNLI hovercraft & RIB
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 27th June 2016
Southend Pier and repairs under way
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 27th June 2016
No trains today
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 27th June 2016
Southend Pier replacement transport for those unable to walk the world's
longest pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 27th June 2016
Balmoral arriving at Southend Pier
Photo: © Ian Boyle, 27th June 2016
The oil-fired Grain and coal-fired Kingsnorth power
stations were both being demolished in 2016.
Only the impressive chimney of Grain oil-fired power station remains in June
2016
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
The rail-connected cross-channel
ferry pier of Port Victoria was situated near this current pier
Ferries also ran across the Medway to Queenborough, also rail-connected
Gas-fired power station in the background
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
Kingsnorth oil-fired power
station appears intact in this view
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
However demolition is well
advanced at Kingsnorth when viewed from behind
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
Siwertell ship unloader at
Kingsnorth Power Station jetty
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
New gas-powered station at
Kingsnorth
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
As we approached the berth at Chatham we passed the PS
Medway Queen.
Only the impressive chimney of Grain oil-fired power station remains in June
2016
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
We picked up passengers at
Chatham but the passengers had to return by bus from Gravesend.
Picking up passengers at Chatham
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
Isle of Sheppey Circumnavigation
The hamlet of Shellness at the start of the Swale channel
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
The entrance to Faversham Creek from the Swale
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
Thames barge Mirosa in the Swale
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
Balmoral was
early after her trip along the Swale so she diverted past the Robert
Montgomery on the way back to Southend. The SS Richard Montgomery
was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710
used to carry cargo during the war. The ship was wrecked off the Nore
sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in 1944 with around
1,400 tonnes of explosives on board, which continue to be a hazard to the
area.
SS Robert Montgomery
Photo: © Ian Boyle,27th June 2016
