Kenfig, Hedon Sand & River Hull – these photos I made on Monday twenty first August 1989 on a brief part of the River Hull. I had hoped to stroll alongside the footpath beside the river between Drypool Bridge and North Bridge.
The small tug Felix-Tow has received round a bit because it was constructed within the Netherlands in 1955. After working in Rotterdam the Ijssel got here to Felixtowe in 1967 the place it was renamed FELIX-TOW. I believe it was pretty new to Hull the place it was owned by Dean’s Tugs Ltd – and was nonetheless in service in 2008 – maybe nonetheless now.
The vessel within the foreground is a coastal tanker belonging to the Hull primarily based petroleum firm RIX which nonetheless operates a fleet of coastal oil tankers, estuarial barges and crew switch automobiles. Rix have oil storage tanks round a mile additional up the river.
The corporate, as their site relates, started in 1873 when Robert Rix, a sea Captain and Service provider Adventurer working in Hull arrange in enterprise constructing small coastal craft on the south financial institution of the River Tees in Stockton. Within the 1900s the corporate purchased steam ships and started working them. The transfer into petroleum merchandise got here in 1927 after they started importing tractor vaporising oil and Lamp oil, packed in oak casks on their ships from Russia to the Humber.
The corporate expanded quickly after the tip of World Struggle Two, supplying agricultural and industrial diesel throughout Yorkshire and opening petrol filling stations round Hull. The corporate has continued to develop and develop into new areas.
Barges like these in the course of the image have been as soon as quite common, and have been typically moored three or 4 abreast within the Outdated Harbour downstream of Drypool Bridge, however by 1989 have been turning into a lot much less widespread, although some are nonetheless in use. Others have been transformed to houseboats.
Barges like this would possibly carry as a lot as 24 giant lorries and will switch items from the docks to river wharves at a lot decrease prices than highway transport, with a lot decrease air pollution and carbon footprint. However in fact they may solely take items to websites on navigable rivers and canals and so are a lot much less versatile than highway transport.
Hedon Sand, IMO 5185875 was a Seize Hopper Dredger in-built 1954 near Hull at Richard Dunston’s Hessle Yard. The ship had gross tonnage 677 tons, deadweight 813 tons and was round 50 metres lengthy with a breadth of 10 meters. An 8 cylinder four-stroke msrine Ruston & Hornsby engine give it a high velocity of 9 knots.
Recognized for many of its energetic life as Kenfig, it had been constructed for the British Transport Fee and was transfered to the British Transport Docks Board in Cardiff in 1963. It returned to the Humber and was utilized in dredging the Humber Dock Basin when Humber Dock was being transformed to the Marina.
Mud is at all times an issue within the Humber and within the River Hull and I believe dredging was at all times wanted when the River Hull was nonetheless a industrial river. In recent times there appears to be much more mud within the river near the mouth than I keep in mind.
Kenfig was bought to Jones & Bailey Contractors Ltd, Hull in 1983 – additionally they owned one other dredger, Grassendale they usually renamed it Hedon Sand. In 1989 once I took these photos the vessel was bought to be damaged up in Hull.
I believe some no less than of those huge picket beams had most likely as soon as supported elements of the riverside path I had hoped to stroll.
Forward of me I might see North Bridge however with intensive work happening on the riverbank there was no method I might proceed to stroll alongside it and I needed to retrace my steps to Drypool Bridge
On my method I took one other image of Hedon Sand earlier than strolling as much as the highway and happening into East Hull – the place I took extra photos. Extra later.
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