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Decided today on my day off to go exploring, had my eye on a ship that I keep seeing from the train,
it's a rusty old girl and tied up in the inner harbour, so rung a mate and off we went,
We walked through most of the waterside industrial estate and found some disused buildings and an abandoned bus lol,
Eventually came to a industrial estate where she lives.
Theres alot of boat restoring going on and security at the gate,
lucky for us there was a cafe/caravan near the site so after a bacon buttie and chat to the lady in charge
she tipped us off security had gone for lunch so in we went, rude not to, and we walked everywhere, and finally I found my ship, and it had a walkway on board, so on we went.
There is two other ones I've got my eye on rusting away but more of that later.
Now for some history:-The sulisker Leith IMO 782443 was a fisheries protection vessel launched in 1980, and built in 1981
owned byScottish fisheries protection - Leith.
Built in Ferguson shipbuilders's Glasgow. The older Sulisker type are offshore patrol vessels and do a speed of 18 knots, with a displacement of 1,365 tonnes.
They can spend up to21 days on patrol, she was decommissioned in 2005. Did read that she was going to be made into a luxury yacht,
but so far she is rusting away in the dock here.
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t was great exploring this ship,all the doors to inside were rusted shut, and wanted to get on and off before we got caught by security,
but great fun, hope you enjoy the pics. Sorry about the size of pics don't know how to make em smaller, and nearly lost all of this as I got logged out.De
it's a rusty old girl and tied up in the inner harbour, so rung a mate and off we went,
We walked through most of the waterside industrial estate and found some disused buildings and an abandoned bus lol,
Eventually came to a industrial estate where she lives.
Theres alot of boat restoring going on and security at the gate,
lucky for us there was a cafe/caravan near the site so after a bacon buttie and chat to the lady in charge
she tipped us off security had gone for lunch so in we went, rude not to, and we walked everywhere, and finally I found my ship, and it had a walkway on board, so on we went.
There is two other ones I've got my eye on rusting away but more of that later.
Now for some history:-The sulisker Leith IMO 782443 was a fisheries protection vessel launched in 1980, and built in 1981
owned byScottish fisheries protection - Leith.
Built in Ferguson shipbuilders's Glasgow. The older Sulisker type are offshore patrol vessels and do a speed of 18 knots, with a displacement of 1,365 tonnes.
They can spend up to21 days on patrol, she was decommissioned in 2005. Did read that she was going to be made into a luxury yacht,
but so far she is rusting away in the dock here.
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t was great exploring this ship,all the doors to inside were rusted shut, and wanted to get on and off before we got caught by security,
but great fun, hope you enjoy the pics. Sorry about the size of pics don't know how to make em smaller, and nearly lost all of this as I got logged out.De
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