| Photographer: | Chris Hunsicker [View profile] | Title: | MTB BLADE RUNNER TWO | Added: | Sep 16, 2005 | | Captured: | September 16, 2005 | IMO: | 9287754 | Hits: | 641 | | Location: | Cowes, United Kingdom | | Photo Category: |
Special Purpose Ships | | Description: | Leaving Cowes with wind turbine blades. 11:13hrs, 16/9/05
This vessel is specifically designed to carry wind turbine blades from the Vestas factory at Newport, to Southampton. There, many are transferred onto larger vessels. Loading is done with a crane that straddles the vessel moored in a specially built dock. |
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