#Port of Southampton

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The UK, an island nation with a rich maritime history, is home to some of the busiest and most significant sea ports in the world. These ports are crucial gateways for global trade, facilitating the import and export of goods, including vehicles, machinery, consumer goods, and much more.

If you’re looking to transport your cargo, particularly from Dubai, understanding the major sea ports in the UK can greatly enhance your logistics planning.

At MegaSpeed Cargo, one of the Best Car Shipping Companies in Dubai and a leading Dubai Logistics Company, we offer seamless shipping solutions to and from the UK’s major ports, ensuring your cargo reaches its destination efficiently and safely.

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A Trip To Norway (Part 1) Southampton

[oflgtfol]

did you know long island is shaped like a fish. now you do :)

[simona-a-marinkova]

Bank holiday weekend in Southampton

Southampton is a port city in south England, just 2 hours train ride from London Waterloo. It was last minute decision to go there over the bank holiday, and it worked out well. It’s worth visiting for couple of days. The city is well kept and there is a lot of development going on – loads new flats buildings, restaurants, shopping mall and modern Ocean village (marina). We got there with the…

[solentmarineconsultant]

The On – Off Hire Bunker and Condition Surveys is the most popular survey in marine surveyor field. This survey is carried out prior and after charter period which purposed to determine the quantity of bunker remaining on board ROB and inspected the general condition of the vessel.

[therealefl]

Southampton Starlet Leaves On Loan After 'Summer-Long Chase'

Scottish Premiership club St Mirren have re-signed fullback Thierry Small on loan from Championship outfit Southampton for the rest of the season, the club have officially confirmed. This will be the third loan spell of Small’s infant career, having joined the Saints from Premier League club Everton back in 2021 in rather controversial terms after the Toffees rejected Southampton’s offer of £1.5…

[shane-west]

APRIL 10-11th 1912 - TITANIC SETS SAIL

Shortly after 12.00 noon, Titanic sets sail from Southampton, beginning her maiden voyage, and heading first for Cherbourg in Normandy, north-western France. Titanic arrives in Cherbourg, with the tender ships SS Nomadic and SS Traffic reaching the ship – anchored in the outer harbour – at 6.35pm. With the newly embarking passengers safely transferred from the tender ships to Titanic (142 1st Class, 30 2nd Class and 102 3rd Class), and with a smaller number disembarking (15 1st Class and 9 2nd Class), at around 8.10pm the ship leaves Cherbourg, headed for Queenstown on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. At 11.30am, Titanic drops anchor at Roches Point outer anchorage, in Queenstown, County Cork – her final port of call on the maiden journey to New York. With the tender ships PS Ireland and PS America having transported the 123 passengers joining at Queenstown (7 2nd Class and 113 3rd Class) and collecting 7 passengers who were disembarking, at 1.30pm Titanic raises anchor and sets off to cross the Atlantic for America.

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112 Years Ago: Titanic was dressed in her signal flags to greet the people of Southampton on her first day in port. This occasion is often assumed to be a celebration of Good Friday but has since been confirmed as taking place on Thursday, April the 4th.

Join us tomorrow for our next major event in our A MONTH TO REMEMBER! For a look at the full schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

[petspeopletogether]

Incredibly moving reminder from the Animal League: There are so many animals who are looking for homes. Some that are continuously overlooked 🥺 All animals deserve a second chance.

Visit our Port Washington, NY adoption center to meet these sweet animals and so many more like them‼️❤️

video idea: Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation

[scotianostra]

On September 26th 1934 the Liner Queen Mary launched at John Brown’s shipyard, Clydebank.

The construction of still the unnamed Cunard Queen Mary ship began in December 1930 (the ship’s keel was laid down on 31 January 1931) in the yard of “John Brown & Co” at Clydebank. The launch was scheduled for May 1932, but the work on the ship was suspended in December 1931 due to the world economic depression. A loan of 9.5 million pounds from the Government was granted to the Cunard Line with enough money to complete the Queen Mary ship and to build a second liner – the Queen Elizabeth.

As a direct result of this most advantageous deal, the Cunard Line merged with its main rival White Star on 10th May 1934 into Cunard White Star Ltd. The Queen Mary construction resumed in April 1934, the liner was completed by August and launched on 26th September at a total cost of 3.5 million pounds sterling.

The work was completed in March 1936. The Queen Mary ship sailed out for preliminary trials and after being painted in Southampton, the liner was handed over to Cunard White Star Line on 11th May 1936. RMS Queen Mary ship first sailing was on 14th May with its Transatlantic itinerary being Southampton-Cherbourg-New York. By May 1937 the liner had carried a total of almost 57,000 passengers.

The main speed-rival of the QM ship was SS Normandie – a liner built in France and operated by the French Compagnie Generale Transatlantique line. The Queen Mary took the Blue Riband (the prestigious award given to a ship with the speed record for a transatlantic crossing) from the French liner SS Normandie in August 1938, with record speeds for both west- and eastbound crossings of the Atlantic Ocean – the average speeds was, respectively, 30,63 kn (35m25 mph, 56,7 km/h) and 30,14 kn (34,68 mph, 55,82 km/h).

In 1937, the Normandie liner was refitted with new propellers, enabling her to take the Blue Riband, but in 1938 the Queen Mary ship reclaim the honour for best speeds in both directions – westbound 30,99 kn (35,66 mph, 57.39 km/h) and eastbound 31,69 kn (36,47 mph, 58.69 km/h). This record was beaten by the SS United Sates liner in 1952.

The last commercial sailing of the ship Queen Mary was on 30 August 1939 departing from Southampton and then berthed at New York until the end of 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers for the duration of the war.

Following the war, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service and along with Queen Elizabeth commenced the two-ship transatlantic passenger service for which the two ships were initially built. The two ships dominated the transatlantic passenger transportation market until the dawn of the jet age in the late 1950s. By the mid-1960s, Queen Mary was ageing and, though still among the most popular transatlantic liners, was operating at a loss.

After several years of decreased profits for Cunard Line, Queen Mary was officially retired from service in 1967. She left Southampton for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, United States, where she remains permanently moored. Much of the machinery, including one of the two engine rooms, three of the four propellers, and all of the boilers, were removed. The ship serves as a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum and a hotel. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has accepted the Queen Mary as part of the Historic Hotels of America.

RMS Queen Mary remains in Long Beach but recently it has been reported it is in need of significant repairs according to assessments and photos in 2019 and 2020. An estimated $289 million in repairs are needed after years of decline and the most recent operator going bankrupt.But even to “retire and recycle” the liner could cost up to $190m. One of the suggestions are to dismantle and sink the liner, although no long term plans have been finalised as yet.

The Queen Mary is due to open again to visitors next month, let’s hope someone can come up with a rescue plan to save her.

It has been mooted that it could return to the Clyde but the eyewatering amount of money it would take surely rules this out.

[thedemon-crowley]

They were in sight of Southampton Harbor. Soleil pulled her phone out and texted her new acquaintance. [About to make port. The Pearl takes a longer time to dock due to her size. I'm thinking we need about hours to settle. You're London based, right?]

[I am indeed.] He fires off his reply, following up almost immediately with [I can meet you there if you like.]

[stephensmithuk]

The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Problem

Yew hedges are pruned lots of European yew (Taxus baccata), a highly dense tree that can cope with heat, cold and pollution.

A wicket gate is a small narrow door built into a fence, wall or larger gate. You would often find them in city gates as they could be opened to admit pedestrians without incurring the time and security risk of opening the main gate.

Padlocks have been around since ancient civilisation, but the Industrial Revolution made them much easier to make and available to the masses.

Clogs were very popular in Britain at this point as they were cheap, strong footwear for industrial and agricultural workers. People danced in them and it is still a thing in Wales. One British expression for dying is "popped his clogs".

Waterloo was the main railway arrival point in London for ocean liner passengers disembarking at Southampton (a major port of arrival for them), with special trains being put on to meet the various liners. An express train in 1888 could do the journey from the Southampton Docks station in 2 hours and 10 minutes. The electrification of the line from London to Southampton by British Rail led to the closure of this station and nearby Northam in 1966 to passengers, freight services running a year longer. Passenger services were diverted to Southampton Central. The station's platform area is now a car park under the old glass canopy and the station building is now a casino, part of the Gentings Casino chain.

Yellow fever is a viral disease spread by mosquitoes. Most people get over it in five days or so, but 15% will get a second phase including jaundice (hence the name) with a 20%-50% fatality rate at that point. Africans were mistakenly thought to be immune to this when they had in fact merely acquired immunity via burying their dead close to their habitations with resultant mild cases among children. When these traditions were stopped by imperalists, they got it just as bad as everyone else. It is thought it came to South and Central America via the Spanish conquerors.

A successful, easily manufacturable vaccine was developed in 1937. A lot of countries now require some form of yellow fever vaccination, although precise regulations vary.

Shag tobacco is fine-cut tobacco used for self-made cigarettes i.e. roll-ups.

The Ordnance here refers to the Ordnance Survey, which I have discussed in the past.

Princetown prison is HMP Dartmoor, originally opened in 1809 for prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars and then the War of 1812. Closed in 1815, it was rebuilt in 1850-1851 to become a civilian prison; today it is a Category C (general population) men's prison.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.

At 7.30am, Captain Edward J. Smith boards Titanic with full crew. Third class passengers embarked at 9.30, followed by second and first class. Titanic sets sail from Southampton at noon heading for Cherbourg. Even before she leaves the harbour, there was disarray. The swell caused by the giant ship created a suction that broke the mooring ropes of the City of New York. A collision was narrowly…

[simona-a-marinkova]

Bank holiday weekend in Southampton

Southampton is a port city in south England, just 2 hours train ride from London Waterloo. It was last minute decision to go there over the bank holiday, and it worked out well. It’s worth visiting for couple of days. The city is well kept and there is a lot of development going on – loads new flats buildings, restaurants, shopping mall and modern Ocean village (marina). We got there with the…

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At Solent Marine Consultants, we are committed to become the world's leading marine consultants, surveyors and inspection providers in Bangladesh. Marine Consultant & Surveyors have been providing professional maritime consulting services to our global client base. One of the most trusted and established names in the industry, Solent Marine Consultants is proud to have been called upon to represent our clients in some of the most high profile shipping incidents of recent years. Our aim is to help the ships to operate safely, securely and responsibly as per industry norms and standards.

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Goodbye, "Reliable old Olympik! »

On this day, 89 years ago, hundreds of people waving scarves and headbands saw off the venerable and "unsinkable" Olympic to its final journey at Southampton

After a six-month Moored in the home port "Olympic" "came alive" again, as evidenced by the clubs of thick black smoke coming out of the third Funnel and the last long horn. It was a one-stop journey - to the north-east of England, to the town of Jarrow. On this day, even the weather was symbolically "sad" with rain. The decks and cabins are unusually empty, with only a hundred crew members on board, as accurately noted in a British newspaper - "it seemed as if the sailors were escorting off the old soldier on her last journey to her eternal resting place. "Olympic" left her home port "old transatlantic comrades" - "Homeric" and "Majestic" saw her off with farewell Blasts of their Fog Horns they too wold be doomed to also go to the wreckage after some time. As an honorary escort, several small steamboats accompanied the Reliable Old girl into the Solent Strait on its final flight. "In my opinion, the Olympic is one of the most beautiful steamships ever built or even will be built in the future," recalled former Olympic captain Bertram Hayes.

After the dismantling of the superstructure at Jarrow, in 1937, the hull of the shipbuilding masterpiece of the early 20th century will be delivered to Inverkeithing with the help of eight tugs. In this Scottish town, the existence of the "Olympics" will end forever.