Ferry Disruption Portsmouth

cyberyacht
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edited November 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

They found a 500lb WW2 UXB in the harbour entrance so ferries are delayed.

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  • TonyBurton
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    edited November 2016 #2

    Any plans for a smooth get away would be blown out of the water.

  • peedee
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    edited November 2016 #3

    Thats not the first one, not so long ago they had to distroy a British torpedo found alongside one of the docks. I was quite puzzled by this finding because it had obviously been dropped accidentally and not recovered for whatever reason. The whole dredging process is so the new aircraft carriers can be accommodated.

    Bombs are not the only thing they are finding and many of ancient artifacts dredged up are being preserved in the Mary Rose museum. Cannon balls are two a penny.

    peedee

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #4

    They turn up stuff fairly regularly from oyster dredging as well although this particular exercise is more extensive. They may even find my old three bladed saildrive propeller. Embarassed

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  • peedee
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    edited November 2016 #6

    Yes but no doubt there will be a knock on effect to services for a while.

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  • Vicmallows
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    edited November 2016 #7

    I happened to be looking at AIS (ship positions) this morning and immediately thought 'what are those 3 ferries up to'! - local radio reported the harbour closure about half an hour later.  They all trouped in just after 1100hrs.

    Normandie missed its morning sailing to Caen, and the return, and has been in Portsmouth all day.  Only other impact was the 2-4 hour delay in arrivals.

  • iansoady
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    edited November 2016 #8

    Apparently it was found while dredging for the new aircraft carrier. I also read that an 1100 lb bomb was found in the channel recently. That would have made a fair bang.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #9

    There was an article a few days ago about deficiencies in shore power supply for the new carriers. Don't leave your EHU cables lying around or Jolly Jack will nick them. Wink

  • peedee
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    edited November 2016 #10

    Apparently it was found while dredging for the new aircraft carrier. I also read that an 1100 lb bomb was found in the channel recently. That would have made a fair bang.

    I think that must have been
    >this one.<     It was designed to go off triggered by the disturbance of a ship passing over the top of it but had not done so because it was well and truely stuck in the mud. It was also aluminium cased and had not shown up on sonar sweeps before dredging
    commenced.

    They must have been very lucky it didn't go bang on being dredged up.

    peedee

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