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Hi,

Does anyone know about going up the Manchester Ship Canal. Air draught is c17m. Thanks

Tim
 
You need valid third party insurance to x million and a certificate certifying seaworthiness of the boat. If you have a word with Jalsea Marine Services, Northwich they will give you the inside story.
 
Best wear your brown trousers:

msc020.jpg


from the Pennine Waterways Virtual Tour

What a fascinating idea, though....

Andy
 
Home Town /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The old railway high level with Thelwall Viaduct and the M6 in the back ground. Warrington.
Mum use to threaten me when I was naughty that the big black(can I say that on here?) bogey man would take me away on the Ship Canal. Maybe she was referring to the stokers of the boilers on the ships!!
If I remember they were trying to build very up market flats on the site of the old Greenhall Whitley brewery that backed onto the canal only a few years ago.
How times have changed. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Nice thread, and it raises some ideas.

I've wondered before about trying to make inland city visits eg Glasgow, Preston, Manchester, Gloucester, with a fin keeled boat. We once did intend visiting Bristol (where I have grandchildren), but turned right at Carnsore Point and sailed round Ireland instead. Was that the right decision?
 
I think it's in this year's Welcome Anchorages, it includes details on places to tie up in Glasgow, one being at what used to be the Moat House hotel? I've got various friends and family that stay there, made me smile to think I could stop by to say hello in the boat...... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I could never really see the point of the Manchester Ship Canal as it went to Manchester and as a Liverpudlian I didn't know why anyone would want to do that...
Ok I'll go hide some where till the flak dies down. Having said that I got out of Liverpool as soon as I could.
 
Reminds me of Steve Coogan on top of the pops introducing atomic kitten
"the best thing to come out of Liverpool since the Manchester ship Canal



Except dirtier" !
 
Dull history:

MSC was built for the purpose of taking trade away from L'Pool.

Old joke:

Why is L'Pool John Lennon Airport so named?

Because it's the first place he went just as soon as he hit the bigtime.




But hark at me, sitting here working and listening to Rubber Soul.
 
Thanks for that info.
Actually I got demoted from smart Cunard Liverpool/New York liners in 1958 to the Dan-y-Bryn a true British tramp rust bucket, joined it in Manchester, couldn't believe I had to go to sea in such a thing and with such a crowd - it got worse after that!
Any one help about how to get a couple of nights in the Albert Dock?
 
I have a friend who went up the MSC in a submarine within the last 30 years. When I was very small (late 50s) I remember dropping(or trying to drop) wine gums and smarties down the funnels of ships on the canal going under the Railway Viaduct at Runcorn. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif (My gran lived up the road in Widnes)

Tim
 
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Thanks for that info.
Actually I got demoted from smart Cunard Liverpool/New York liners in 1958 to the Dan-y-Bryn a true British tramp rust bucket, joined it in Manchester, couldn't believe I had to go to sea in such a thing and with such a crowd - it got worse after that!

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Did you ever see White Star M.V. Britannic? My Grandad, Tom Nixon was an engineering officer on her from mid 1930s to mid 50s..maybe even chief towards the end. He died in 1959, and the ship was scrapped in 1960.

Tim
 
Who remembers the Runcorn Transporter bridge?

I recall crossing the ship canal on that many years ago in my 105E Anglia. Quite an experience. At least I think it went over the ship canal /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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I have a friend who went up the MSC in a submarine within the last 30 years....

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They didn't bang the periscope on anything, by any chance, did they?

If so, it would lend some credibility to an apocryphal tale that used to circulate at work. Rumor had it that a badly mangled submarine periscope was returned to Barr & Stroud in Glasgow for repair. The cause of the damage was never revealed, but someone from the navy was heard to mutter "...Manchester Ship Canal..."

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Andy
 
You mean "Big Bertha"
It's no probs going up the Cut as we in the NW call it Ive done it about 60 times in the 50/60s with Manchester Liners.
and another 40 times 73 to 93 Northwich to Hollyhead.
Its OK but in a small boat, but the Lockies could get very hostile with peeps who struggled to know what to do.
It may be they accept small boats a bit better now not done it myself since 93.
And even giving some yachties advice based on experience they would ignore it.
 
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Who remembers the Runcorn Transporter bridge?

I recall crossing the ship canal on that many years ago in my 105E Anglia. Quite an experience. At least I think it went over the ship canal /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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I went on the transporter twice..there and back /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. We used to have a photo of it with the new bridge being built in the background..but it was lost with parents effects /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif My other grandad was a printing press engineer on the Liverpool Echo, so occasionally interesting photos would float over the pennines to us in Huddersfield.

When my dad was 17 in 1939 he was in the LDV/Home Guard on the Runcorn Railway Bridge guarding it against the onslaught of the German Army....with about five other blokes....... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Tim
 
I think it's tragic that this historic waterway will be closed to traffic by 2015.

Surely there is more to life than putting up 'affordable housing'.
 
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