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THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE

OCTOBER 2023 TVFTDO


Two night time air ambulance landings in Coronation Park.

A barge and a half




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01 October 2023 - 11:08:20
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02 October 2023 - 07:53:13
02 October 2023 - 08:54:06
Jack up rig HavenSeajack 1 is towed out of Dartmouth Harbour by tug Christine from Plymouth, keeping a watchful tethered eye on the rear is tug Sgt Pepper from Belfast. The rig has been up at Sandquay dock assisting in the demolition of the old piers and pontoons.
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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 08:54:49

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 08:56:06

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 08:56:19

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 08:57:24

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 08:59:03

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 09:02:16

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 09:04:59

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 09:05:06

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Jack-up rig SeaHaven 1 towed out of Dartmouth
02 October 2023 - 09:14:42
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14 October 2023 - 11:37:31
14 October 2023 - 11:46:23
Last year Dartmouth could boast it had two former Venetian water taxis. Sadly the owner of one passed away suddenly, but Serenella is still around. I assume it's known as Serenella, but that is also the name of the company in Venice that makes them.
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Venetian water taxi in Dartmouth
14 October 2023 - 11:47:14
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16 October 2023 - 10:38:14
16 October 2023 - 10:41:45
16 October 2023 - 10:46:25
To the crew of the William Henry II this is pretty much water off a duck's back.
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Dartmouth fishing boat William Henry II
16 October 2023 - 10:53:50
16 October 2023 - 17:36:27
17 October 2023 - 09:33:23

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Noss on Dart marina hotel construction
17 October 2023 - 15:46:26
A call out down to Slapton was called off soon after the Dart RNLI left the harbour. Condition were a bit lumpy.
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Dart RNLI on a shout
17 October 2023 - 17:10:37

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RNLI rough weather training.
17 October 2023 - 18:44:02

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RNLI rough weather training.
17 October 2023 - 18:44:05

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RNLI rough weather training.
17 October 2023 - 18:44:15

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RNLI rough weather training.
17 October 2023 - 18:44:21
The B Class ILB runs rings around the D Class ILB
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RNLI rough weather training.
18 October 2023 - 14:23:10

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Steam loco Royal Scot visits Kingswear
18 October 2023 - 14:32:13
A special train trip for steam enthusiasts. The Royal Scot came down from Taunton.

Look carefully and you will see it here reversing back to Churston to turn around. If, per chance, you want to see it properly, click the pic and head into the October album where later in the day it departed in better weather.
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Steam loco Royal Scot visits Kingswear
18 October 2023 - 15:08:16
18 October 2023 - 16:47:18

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Steam loco Royal Scot visits Kingswear
18 October 2023 - 16:51:12

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Steam loco Royal Scot visits Kingswear
18 October 2023 - 16:51:31
And so, with lumpy conditions the crews of both RNLI Inshore LifeBoats were sent out for some rough weather training.
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Steam loco Royal Scot visits Kingswear
18 October 2023 - 18:06:11
19 October 2023 - 08:31:31
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19 October 2023 - 08:43:50
Thursday morning and four seals have taking up residence aboard RDYC.s individual dinghy pontoon.
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Seals find a better pontoon.
19 October 2023 - 08:44:03
It can't be the easiest platform for a seal to climb aboard.
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Seals find a better pontoon.
19 October 2023 - 08:44:37
Meanwhile, their dedicated pontoon, with easy access, sits empty.
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The Kingswear seal pontoon. Empty.
19 October 2023 - 12:14:47
Storm Babet wasn't exactly a damp squib, but certainly the South Hams escaped the worst. Although you might want to try tell that to the crew of Royal Navy yacht Pegasus as they departed the harbour. They were in between the two castles when perhaps second thoughts might have been setting in.
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Storm Babet made sailing....interesting
19 October 2023 - 12:14:48
What goes upmost come down. Deep down.
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Storm Babet made sailing....interesting
19 October 2023 - 18:03:50
19 October 2023 - 18:05:34
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20 October 2023 - 07:05:15
Dartmouth Food Festival - once again a great success. Unless, of course you want to take notice of the Facebook whiners.
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Dartmouth Food Festival preparations.
20 October 2023 - 07:46:53
Friday morning an five seals perch on the special dinghy pontoon.
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Seals find a better pontoon.
20 October 2023 - 07:48:54
20 October 2023 - 07:49:07
20 October 2023 - 08:29:07
And hour later and we are up to six squeezed on the grey pontoon. It was a bit of a sun trap by this time.
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Seals find a better pontoon.
20 October 2023 - 08:44:25
20 October 2023 - 08:44:37
20 October 2023 - 10:31:28
20 October 2023 - 10:31:48
20 October 2023 - 11:28:30
Farming over Galmpton way.
Could they be planting a flag?
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Devon farming
20 October 2023 - 16:35:00
21 October 2023 - 08:00:12
21 October 2023 - 08:00:32
21 October 2023 - 10:05:01
21 October 2023 - 10:06:19
Someone wanted to go dinghy sealing.
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Seal aboard Kingswear dinghy
21 October 2023 - 10:11:25

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Seal aboard Kingswear dinghy
21 October 2023 - 10:14:38
Meanwhile, Johnny no-mates (or Joanna no-mates) decided to live aboard a nearby dinghy.
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Seal aboard Kingswear dinghy
21 October 2023 - 16:51:45

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Classic yacht Sonata
21 October 2023 - 19:48:28
A landing in the dark at CoronationPark, Dartmouth for G-DAAS, one of the Devon Air Ambulance Airbus H145 helicopters.
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Devon Air Ambulance night landing Coronation Park
21 October 2023 - 19:48:46
The Air Ambulance approaches from Kingswear over the river. According to their mission map, the crew assisted in the care of a patient who had fallen.
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Devon Air Ambulance night landing Coronation Park
21 October 2023 - 19:48:52
There has been a number of Air Ambulance missions in the viicinity recently. One daytime landing was at the top of Kingswear. This night time emergency landing was into Coronation Park, one of two sites in the town which can handle movements after dark.
The casualty, who had fallen, was flown to Derriford hospital.
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Devon Air Ambulance night landing Coronation Park
21 October 2023 - 19:48:52
Not the sharpest of photos, but it's only now we have digital cameras tattoos is possible to capture at all.
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Devon Air Ambulance night landing Coronation Park
21 October 2023 - 19:48:58
The Air Ambulance was on the ground for about an hour before it headed off for Plymouth.
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Devon Air Ambulance night landing Coronation Park
22 October 2023 - 08:21:14

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Seal aboard Kingswear dinghy pontoon.
22 October 2023 - 09:07:22

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Seal aboard Kingswear dinghy
22 October 2023 - 15:09:10
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22 October 2023 - 15:09:47
22 October 2023 - 16:46:30
If it was meant to be camouflage green, someone didn't get the memo. One of the many houses being developed along Dartmouth's Castle Road does er,....stand out.
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Castle Road, Dartmouth makeover
23 October 2023 - 10:38:20

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Moving the RDYC pontoons for winter
23 October 2023 - 10:38:58
End of season, chores to be done, pontoons to put away. So just how many RDYC members does it take to change a lightbulb?
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Moving the RDYC pontoons for winter
23 October 2023 - 11:41:01
And then take their main pontoon for its winter holiday.
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Moving the RDYC pontoons for winter
23 October 2023 - 11:41:29
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25 October 2023 - 07:55:52
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25 October 2023 - 08:11:36
I was told it was going to be big. But not THIS big. And it just barged in. It's a JUB, a jack up barge, also known as a jack up platform.
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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:13:43

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:15:54
Towed from Plymouth by tug Kingston the barge, known as JU36201 weighs 600 tons, is 36.5 metres long and 20 metres wide. Those poles, known as spud legs are each 40 metres tall.
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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:23:44
25 October 2023 - 08:23:59

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:24:05
And whilst the major towing operation continued in the harbour out on the horizon was a sunrise. Not one of your conventional sunrises, but well worth seeing.
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Sunrise over mouth of river Dart
25 October 2023 - 08:24:52
It's owned by MPS - Modular Pontoon Systems of the Netherlands And this barge recently helped in the renovation of Fulham Football Clubs ground which is alongside the Thames. It's no surprise that the platform is here in Dartmouth to assist in the repairs at Sandquay.
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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:25:02

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:25:55

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:27:12

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:27:26

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:27:39

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:28:09

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:28:37

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:29:10

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:29:14

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:30:51

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:30:57

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:31:04

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:31:43

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:31:53

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:32:

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:35:46

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:35:49

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:43:01

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 08:47:34

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Jack up platform JU36201 arrives in Dartmouth
25 October 2023 - 11:28:17
Yet another LNG tanker passing by. This is Diamond Gas Metropolis, 297 metres long and now heading back to Lake Charles, Louisiana in the US from Dunkirk.
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Liquified Natural Gas tanker Diamond Gas Metropolis
25 October 2023 - 14:34:33
Out on the horizon later in the day, was this tall ship. Called Artemis and 59m it flies under the flag of the Netherlands. It is on its way from Harlingen (in the Netherlands) to Cascais in Portugal.
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Tall ship Artemis
25 October 2023 - 14:57:22
25 October 2023 - 15:00:06

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Delivery at half tide house.
25 October 2023 - 15:00:17

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Delivery at half tide house.
26 October 2023 - 11:53:10
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27 October 2023 - 04:34:25
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28 October 2023 - 08:08:37
28 October 2023 - 14:15:16
28 October 2023 - 16:31:40
The tree that fell down on the Kingswear shore on the 13th of June is still in its new position. But doesn't appear to have died.
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Kingswear fallen tree.
28 October 2023 - 19:10:40
A bit more storm like. High tide and the waves are forcing the water up the Kingswear slip and along the road behind RDYC.
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River Dart high tide
28 October 2023 - 22:43:56
Cruise ship Sky Princess, all 330 mores of it heads past the river mouth en route to Southampton via Brixham having departed Lisbon, Portugal on the 26th.
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Cruise ship Sky Princess
29 October 2023 - 06:44:13
You know it's a high tide when the Kingswear ferry walkway starts sloping upwards.
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River Dart high tide
29 October 2023 - 09:44:50
Not exactly a serious waves, but unusual in the harbour nonetheless. Inverdart takes a slapping rather than a battering.
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River Dart waves.
30 October 2023 - 09:20:10
Heavy rain has increased the flow of muck downriver. This is not bad news for every river user.
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Seagulls aboard river debris
30 October 2023 - 09:20:37
Feathered floating flotsam
Think of it as a log cabin.
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Seagulls aboard river debris
30 October 2023 - 12:57:58
The Dartmouth Lower Ferry takes a well earned break mid river. But someone has to do the work and so the passenger boat continues on.
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Dartmouth - Kingswear ferries
30 October 2023 - 18:15:19
Just nine days after the last night landing at Coronation Park, the Devon Air Ambulance helicopter comes in over the river to touch down in the park.
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Devon Air Ambulance G-DAAS night landing
30 October 2023 - 18:15:45
The Devon Air Ambulance coming in for a landing at Coronation Park - the second of the month. That's some searchlight.
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Devon Air Ambulance G-DAAS night landing
30 October 2023 - 18:16:13

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Devon Air Ambulance G-DAAS night landing
30 October 2023 - 18:16:16
Landing at quarter past the hour, the aircraft was on the ground for about 40 minutes.
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Devon Air Ambulance G-DAAS night landing
31 October 2023 - 08:14:43
LNG tanker Diamond Gas Crystal returns to its Louisiana post at Lake Charles after delivering to Zeebrugge. 297 metres long the Crystal would appear to be the sister ship to Diamond Gas Metropolis which passed by two days earlier.
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LNG tanker Diamond Gas Crystal
31 October 2023 - 08:17:29
Launched only this year, Nina II is classified as a super yacht by some as it is 24 metres long. Built by Nautor Swan of Finland it appears to be for sale. Yours for just under 8 million euros.
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Superyacht Nina II in Dartmouth
31 October 2023 - 08:18:14
Nina II did sport rather an impressive mast.
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Superyacht Nina II in Dartmouth