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Belfast Docklands

Thursday, 23rd February 2006 by James

In our never-ending quest to catalogue everything that stakes its claim to being the “world’s largest something” I present to you the world’s largest dry dock.

Located in Belfast’s Docklands (where the ill-fated RMS Titanic was built) the dry dock is part of the Harland & Wolff Shipyard who also operate the two gigantic yellow cranes, Samson & Goliath. UK readers might recognise the area from a BBC ident that showed skateboarders doing tricks underneath the cranes.

To the west is the ferry terminal where you can see a Stenna Line Ferry which operates between here and Stranraer in Scotland. Submitter Chris had this to say:

This ferry is possibly the Stena Caledonia which crosses in 3 hours 15 minutes. The newer high speed Stena Voyager (HSS) also travels this route taking 105 minutes for the trip.

Thanks: redstar1 & Chris

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10 Responses to 'Belfast Docklands'

  1. 1. Stephen says: February 23rd, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    Nice to see that Belfast has finally been added in Hi-Res!

  2. 2. ejh says: February 23rd, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    If you look between the two images above, you find the Placemark: site where the Titanic was built / Google Earth. Or the remains of it anyway; those two ramps are all that are left of the slipways where Titanic and her sistership Olympic were constructed.

  3. 3. Timhogs says: February 24th, 2006 at 11:58 am

    A few frames north-east of the ferry - the shadow of that oil platform is kind of interesting.

  4. 4. William says: February 24th, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    Can anyone identify this interesting looking ship to the north?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  5. 5. Tok says: February 24th, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    It’s the HMS Caroline, a Royal Naval training vessel:

    http://www.nhsc.org.uk/index.cfm/event/getVessel/vref/430

    http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server.php?show=nav.2944

  6. 6. William says: February 24th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    Thanks Tok,
    That answers my question about the curious looking white structure on the deck. At first look it appeared that they were trying to hide something on the deck under a tent of some sort.

    Thanks.

  7. 7. WRA says: February 24th, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    Looks like they caught a nice traffic accident clean-up on the Sydenham Bypass.

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    My guess is it has something to do with the tractor-trailer parked off to the side off the road just a bit to the north and is a spill of some sort- notice the water trucks washing the road.

  8. 8. cookie monster says: February 24th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    Its funny to follow the ‘diversion’ through the suburbs- gridlock!

  9. 9. kjfitz says: February 25th, 2006 at 2:20 am

    The oil platform that Timhogs mentioned is the Bulford Dolphin. Picture here.

  10. 10. Tommy says: March 10th, 2006 at 10:40 am

    Go Belfast! Nice to see this city be put on the internet for something other than rioting.

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