Sunken fishing trawler off Levington Marina ??

[WF36]

Sunken boat off Levington Marina ??

Last Friday saw a salvage company lifting this fishing trawler/dredger? "the stig" off the bottom...

Any ideas what the story was behind it?

 

[Lucky Duck]

Last Friday saw a salvage company lifting this fishing trawler "the stig" off the bottom...

Any ideas what the story was behind it?

Isn't that the barge they use to dredge the marina and the approach channel in the pictures?

 

[WF36]

Isn't that the barge they use to dredge the marina and the approach channel in the pictures?

The one that dredged the RHYC?

 

[Lucky Duck]

The one that dredged the RHYC?

No, this one is attached to the shore by large pipes which it uses to take the mud from the bottom and dispose of it downstream. I think your photos shows the furthest point from shore that it has ever been.

I did hear a rumour that SYH had to redredge the marina this year as Ipswich Port authority dumped the arisings from the dredging operations just upsteam of the marina entrance.

 

[WF36]

hmmmm no idea.... well there was a salvage team, and divers with this.....

 

[Tin Tin]

Isn't that the barge they use to dredge the marina and the approach channel in the pictures?

My first thought to.
Talk about a blast from the past.

 

[sailorman]

My first thought to.
Talk about a blast from the past.

Hi Sailorman, its the SYH dredger which sank a week ago today just inside the marina a few metres from the fuel berth. Got some photos prior to the flotation bags being deployed. Quite a mess in the marina with flotsam and diesel etc and worst still, they hadn't completed this year's dredging exercise! Good spectator sport. Yours, Colin

 

[WF36]

Intresting... any idea as to why it sank? and where they were towing it in my pictures?

 

[Lucky Duck]

Intresting... any idea as to why it sank? and where they were towing it in my pictures?

If it sank in the marina basin it is a bit strange that it had made it outside to the 'safe water mark'. No doubt they had their reasons....

I have just come back from SYH and outermost of the port hand posts marking the dredged channel into the marina is at a rather bizarre angle. Did have a quick look round for the dredger but couldn't see it.

 

[Tradewinds]

If it sank in the marina basin it is a bit strange that it had made it outside to the 'safe water mark'. No doubt they had their reasons....

I have just come back from SYH and outermost of the port hand posts marking the dredged channel into the marina is at a rather bizarre angle. Did have a quick look round for the dredger but couldn't see it.

That post has been like that for quite a while - at least since the end of the last 'sailing season'.

At this time of year they would have been dredging the channel up to the SW mark.