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Dist:0.1km north<br/>Looking across Southampton Water from the other corner of the grid square. Also a variety of pleasure craft.
©Hugh Venables
Dist:0.2km north<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I had the immense privilege of an engine room visit the day Princess Di died and with only a month to go before she was withdrawn.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 north<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
Dist:0.4km north<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 north<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 north<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 north<br/>At Clacknore Hard. 16,391 dwt; arrived Southampton today from Pusan(S Korea), via Mediterranean and North Sea ports.
©Stanley Howe
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Looking across River Test from Southampton Port to Marchwood.
©Simon Barnes
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©Simon Barnes
Dist:0.4km north<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
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©ValP
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Transit Vans moved down from the Fords assembly plant and Jags await export. Fruit terminal on dock side. Across the river Test troop ship under maintenance and Fawley refinery in distance.
©Simon Barnes
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Big roller flour mills with two grain elevators in the foreground. Photographed from a passing vessel.
©Chris Allen

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