Probably used for crushing sugar cane and maybe for coffee as well.
Photo taken on 19/11/2023. © Peter Steel 2023.
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Probably used for crushing sugar cane and maybe for coffee as well.
Photo taken on 19/11/2023. © Peter Steel 2023.
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Dennis Eagle chassis cabs and CAT plant are seen here.
This photo was taken, on 11/11/2023, when awaiting departure from Southampton for a 14-night cruise to the Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain onboard P&O Cruises MS Iona - IMO: 9826548.
MS Iona was completed on 09/10/2020 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 29/05/2019, launched on 18/02/2020 and Christened by Dame Irene Hays(Hays Travel), on 16/05/2021 with her maiden voyage on the 07/08/2021. She is from the Excellence Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 184,089, has nineteen decks of which eighteen are passenger accessible, eleven of those with cabins, giving a maximum passenger capacity of 5,206 and 1,762 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä LNG engines giving a total installed power of 67.1MW(82,700hp) giving a service speed of around 17 knots.
The itinerary was: Southampton - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Lisbon, Portugal - A Coruña, Spain - Southampton. This itinerary was a change from the original scheduled one to a maritime pilots strike in Portugal. It should have been Funchal first then the other three islands in order then Cadiz, Spain and an overnight stay in Lisbon. © Peter Steel 2023.
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.....consisting of DAF CF trucks, CAT 740GC Dump trucks and other CAT plant. Some mini sit-on road rollers, Mini Coopers and Range Rovers are also in evidence. The ship in the background is Whitonia - Oil Products Tanker - IMO: 9342607.
This photo was taken, on 11/11/2023, when awaiting departure from Southampton for a 14-night cruise to the Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain onboard P&O Cruises MS Iona - IMO: 9826548.
MS Iona was completed on 09/10/2020 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 29/05/2019, launched on 18/02/2020 and Christened by Dame Irene Hays(Hays Travel), on 16/05/2021 with her maiden voyage on the 07/08/2021. She is from the Excellence Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 184,089, has nineteen decks of which eighteen are passenger accessible, eleven of those with cabins, giving a maximum passenger capacity of 5,206 and 1,762 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä LNG engines giving a total installed power of 67.1MW(82,700hp) giving a service speed of around 17 knots.
The itinerary was: Southampton - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Lisbon, Portugal - A Coruña, Spain - Southampton. This itinerary was a change from the original scheduled one to a maritime pilots strike in Portugal. It should have been Funchal first then the other three islands in order then Cadiz, Spain and an overnight stay in Lisbon. © Peter Steel 2023.
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Seen unloading sand from a model boat into a radio-controlled model 'tipper' at the Hooton Park Bus Running & Aviation Day, Ellesmere Port, on 13/08/2023. © Peter Steel 2023.
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