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#624117 18th Nov 2011 10:15am
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There is a mine hunter, HMS Brocklesby, in the river off the lighthouse. Anyone know why it is there and what it is doing?

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From shipais.com (Brilliant site!!)
Name: Hms Brocklesby
MMSI: 232002833 [UK]
IMO: 4907139
Callsign: 0000
Speed/Dir: 3.8 kts / 132° SE
Status: Underway
Dest: Maritime Security
ETA: Oct21 16:00
Type: Military Ops (35)
Details: Tug
Size: 52m x 11m x 2m
Tonnage: 384gt, 89dwt
Built: 1986
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Originally Posted by Moonstar
There is a mine hunter, HMS Brocklesby, in the river off the lighthouse. Anyone know why it is there and what it is doing?


Its doing a survey and mapping out the river bottom. Updating info, thats all.


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I wonder, is this the same vessel that found the unexploded mine/bomb a couple of years ago in the river, whilst doing a "survey" ?? Maritime Security - Mmmmmm ??

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Now joined at the Pier Head by HMS Grimsby. The lastest HMS Grimsby is the second ship to bear the name. She is the eighth of the Sandown class of single role mine-hunters to be built.

Looks like drinks and lunch. Nice.

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On North West Tonight they said they were surveying the river bed.

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Missed that Gibbo. I wonder if the RN is planning to send a very large ship up the river.

Do we have a very large ship. cool

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Watched them coming in on the Fort Perch Rock radar on Tuesday, as it was too misty to see more than a mile or so.

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in the 50s the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD use to do there own survey of the river chanel. The aim was to check on the revetments, which once the war was over where continued to be built and maintained


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Originally Posted by Moonstar
Missed that Gibbo. I wonder if the RN is planning to send a very large ship up the river.

Do we have a very large ship. cool


We are lucky to have any ships the way its going

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They still do their own surveys and have been all this year, I've heard a good reason but it could just be a theatrical gesture. wink besides they told us on tv what they were up to.

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I believe they're dredging 52 feet of mud from the river bed to allow bigger merchant ships to berth outside of the dock system

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They are, they have planning permission for the deep water berth in LPool docks, watched WD Mersey doing some work opposite the old tower grounds yesterday.


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