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Cornish china clay port captured on a busy day 27/6/82 with three coasters in.
From left to right, Cornish Shipping's BIRTE, the Danish ULLA DORTE, and Carisbrooke Shipping's BRENDA-C.
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BIRTE went off to Greece as STEFANO under Panama flag in 1984. Lost track of her after that.
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Do you have anymore images of Charlestown as my family used to live in the harbour on our boat in 1987 i think. Also do you know what happened to Cornish Shipping?
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regards
Derek
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Fantastic photo of a days gone scene.
I really like it.
Is the port still in use.
rgds/Mike
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unfortunately Charlestown is no longer used as a commercial port though it does see a fair bit of use as a film set.
I must find a picture of the entrance lock gates to this port, the way in is so tight and tortuous that you would never believe ships of this size could negotiate it.
It was a truly wonderful place to watch ships berth and load china clay the old fashioned way. The lorries would come along the high level road to right of picture and tip their load down the chutes to fill the ship by gravity.
regards
John J.
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Thanks for your reply and description.
It sounds fantastic. I remember many years ago travelling in this area (Cornwall/Devon), and looking at some of the old fishing and commercial ports and often being lost for words at their beauty.
In NZ nothing is more than 150yrs old, and to places such as these is something that I will always remember.
Thnks again.
Rgds/Mike
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Rgds,
Willem Johan
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