Wednesday 20 December 2006

Space 1889

Drifting past the office window right now is this little mechanical monster, reminiscent of HG Wells "Ooolah!"



(actually it's the "Irish Sea Pioneer" an operations support vessel, heading for the Douglas Platform).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet you used that website to find out what it was didn't you. Geekboy.

darkdwarf said...

Of course I did. Followed by confirmation with one of our two sets of team binoculars by reading the name on the side of the vessel, and informing our resident "Popeye" who used to be in the Navy.

The fog here yesterday was incredible, you could barely see the car park outside the window, let alone the huge ships moving nearby (you could hear their foghorns though).

"The RFA Fort George" - A Naval Support Vessel (no jokes about collapsing belly-buttons please!) moved out of Cammell-Laird shipyard and looked particularly spooky, due to it's flourescent white and orange life-boats glowing through the fog.

Anonymous said...

Yup, thats them. Shropshire couple. I used to go out with her.

darkdwarf said...

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