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Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking across Southampton Water from the other corner of the grid square. Also a variety of pleasure craft.
©Hugh Venables
Dist:0.2km<br/>I believe this is a telephoto shot from Town Quay. We are out at 14 years post event and Geograph hadn't been invented. I'd only just got my first computer with something like a 100MB. Camera was a rock solid Canon F1N and film was fuji colour slide. How things change. The "great white whale" aka SS Canberra is also no more. I had the immense privilege of an engine room visit the day Princess Di died and with only a month to go before she was withdrawn. I hope this brings happy memories for some of you. I'm not sure whether we've had Canberra on here before.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Container ship Prague Express making for docks at dawn.
©wfmillar
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen on a long lens looking down the River Test. The Fruit Terminal is the low greeny-blue building beyond the cranes. Herbert Walker Avenue runs behind it.
©Peter Facey
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©Alex McGregor
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©Alex McGregor
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.4km<br/>Tied up at the Mayflower Terminal, and seen looking across the River Test from North Road, Marchwood Industrial Park.
©Peter Facey
Dist:0.4km<br/>I believe the big white ship is P & O's Arcadia. Originally conceived for Sitmar, then passed to Princess and was having a spell as a P & O vessel. I believe she became Ocean Village. Sitmar were happy with steam turbines and had the last cruise liner built with this propulsion system. Arcadia nearly had turbines but was built with a diesel electric power station system (I'm sure the bean counters were mighty relieved about that). Philip Dawson's book on Cruise Ships touches on this story.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.4km<br/>A large container ship is passing the Solent Mills on its way to the container port.
©Chris Allen
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across River Test from Southampton Port to Marchwood.
©Simon Barnes
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©Simon Barnes
Dist:0.4km<br/>Grain elevators on the waterfront, left of picture. 1934 roller flour mill for Joseph Rank, now part of Premier Foods. Photographer position is approximate from a vessel.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.4km<br/>Here taken from the shore below the hard at low water.
©David Martin

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