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Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 3, 2021, 8:48:04

Today's header is one that I took personally from the Ferry, probably the day before the Launch of the Tyne's first Supertanker Esso Northumbria. The photo shows how massive it was compared to that man.
I have had a reply from the Photo Hosting people when I asked why some people were not seeing the images. Here is their reply.

An error with their DNS provider, could possibly even be that they are using cloudflare family dns, which is very restrictive.

Best regards

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Allan Campbell on April 3, 2021, 10:00:16, in reply to "Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

Norman That reply from the photo hosting people is a Cop out.

Never had any problems until the last few days or so.

I have not altered anything on our 4 devices etc.

The photos now gone again, again, again.

So one must deduce that something has been altered or updated at the providers end to cause the problem.

Could it be that their alterations are not acceptable to Sky broadband which I use and maybe other broadband providers as well.

Norman check if your hardware and software has been updated in the last week. It will not due to the W10 update in the last week.

My devices run W10, W7, Apple, Android. So by logic it’s not operating systems, it’s before it gets to our routers.

Good luck Norman sorting this pain in the neck.

Allan C.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 3, 2021, 10:08:06, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

Can you see it now Allan. I've just used a different Host for the headers. Can you see it on here aswell?

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria Pic

Posted by Allan Campbell on April 3, 2021, 10:29:47, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

Yes Norman can see that clearly.

Where you using a standard camera or had it a telephoto lens, looks as if you could just step onto the scaffolding.

Allan C.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria Pic

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 3, 2021, 10:52:11, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria Pic"

Hi Allan, I think it was a cheap Russian SLR Camera called a Zenith with a standard 50mm lens.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria Pic

Posted by Brian on April 3, 2021, 11:15:11, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria Pic"

I still have my old Zenith, built like a tank, cheap, but pretty reliable rarely used now but might dig it out and get some film and go retro.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Tom barker on April 3, 2021, 15:08:21, in reply to "Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

Seeing Norman Dunns header photo of Essie Northumbria exsposing her proppeler reminds me some 60 years ago when l was in my late teens serving my time in the joiners shop in hebburn Palmers.Every so often ships would be in the dry dock for re-fits one of them would be what used to call a big end job that would envolve reclining their proppeler shaftThat would in those days using a very hard wood called LIGNUMVITE it was a very hard wood found in the swamps it had oils that was a lubricant for the huge shafts of the ships propeller,our job was to reline the shaft it would e differ cult at times because of other trades wanting to do there respective trades. We us ed to look forward to as we used to call it the big end,any off cuts we took home

For Christmas logs nice little story cheers.

Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Alistair Coulson on April 3, 2021, 15:16:33, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

Camera issues aside i remember the launch very well. The tidal wave across the river, the "dunch" into the opposite jetty. A proud day for Tyneside. My Dad gave me a sponge which, when soaked commemmorated the launch with a picture of the ship.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Jimmy O'Mahoney on April 3, 2021, 19:18:16, in reply to "Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

You can see this ship in the get carter film in the scene on wallsend ferry landing,it was tied up in swan hunters getting fitted out.

Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch

Posted by Jimmy O'Mahoney on April 3, 2021, 21:29:47, in reply to "Re: Saturday's Header of Esso Northumbria before launch"

I was thinking about my previous post the ship could be the esso hibernia.sorry if i have made a mistake.

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