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Beside Port Gate E2 there is a small dry dock. It has been busy over recent weeks servicing the needs of some medium to large sized pleasure craft. For a few days there was a 3 masted sailing boat in there and we saw it going past the balcony as well, but F failed to take a decent picture of it.  |
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This week it was the turn of Hellas Liberty. F knows about Liberty Ships and the contribution they made to the development of modern Greek shipping, but was unaware of this floating museum to that history until it turned up in the dry dock she passes every morning.Tradewinds (industry publication) article on Greek Shipping.
How exciting to live so close to the shipyards
ReplyDeleteEveryday there would be new and amazing ships to look at
There is very little of the old shipyard industry left - mostly repairs, no building. F likes Perama and would have liked to live there, but the prejudices of people in other parts of Athens to Piraeus generally and the old docks areas round Perama, Keratsini and Drapetsona in particular, would immediately cause a stunned pause in the conversation after the question "so where do you live?" Answering 'Piraeus' creates enough raised eyebrows and disbelieving stares... There are by the way some really nice 'ordinary' houses in Drapetsona; with gardens. I think we all would have liked one of those to live in if we had known about them earlier, and to hell with what the rest of Athens thinks.
DeleteI've heard of the Liberty ships but have never seen one. And this one has been turned into a museum? I'll Google Tradewinds
ReplyDeleteWe believe it has a permanent berth quite close to where we saw it (dry dock near port gate 2 of the ferry port). They are a very distinctive shape those Liberty Ships.
DeleteWhen we lived near the Port of Tauranga I used to love watching all the ships going in and out. There is always something different to see :)
ReplyDeleteTauranga is a pretty busy port so there would have bene plenty for you to see there. We have got a post coming up with a selection of floating stuff we see every day here.
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ReplyDeleteWell, you both know how my heart is beating right now! The Liberty ships were so very important during WW2 and I was aware that those that weren't sunk lived long and purposeful lives. I would love to visit one. The first article was most interesting... I do not have, however, a free two thousand bucks to purchase subscription for reading Tradewinds!!! (Paywall meant can't see the article. I guess that astronomical figure is for the shipping magnates of the world.) Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Sorry about the link - it worked when we first tried it, and a couple of days later the paywall kicked in. Basically it gave a potted history of how the shipowners of Hydra were inveigled into funding the uprising 200 years ago. In those day the best known shipping families were Hydriots, or from Andros and Chios. At least you would have got the picture of the blokes with the pom-pom clogs.... xxx Mr T
DeleteI spent most of my life, in fact all by 5 years, near the ocean and gulf with big ships passing. I never saw a museum ship, but many ships in Savannah Port.. I have seen news of museum ships on TV. I did got to Charlestown SC and see replicas of the Nina, the Penta and Santa Maria saling ships and it beats me how they crossed the oceans on those small ships.
ReplyDeleteI have a thing for shipyards, more the smell of the ocean.
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