By chance I was out on my motorcycle on the 24th April in the evening when the vessel was leaving the River Tyne for Denmark. Danish owned, but flagged with Liberia and with a Deadweight of 82,178 tonnes. A general cargo vessel but principally transporting coal.
There was only a light wind in a cloudless sky and the river only with a few ripples. This is the biggest ship I have seen in the Tyne since the days of Esso Northumbria with a deadweight of 250,000 tones leaving the river in the 1960's on test after just being completed.
To put size into perspective, in the last picture the gap between the two lighthouses is over1/4 of a mile you can see how big it is.
The camera was a Nikon D90 with a Nikon 24/120 lens
There was only a light wind in a cloudless sky and the river only with a few ripples. This is the biggest ship I have seen in the Tyne since the days of Esso Northumbria with a deadweight of 250,000 tones leaving the river in the 1960's on test after just being completed.
To put size into perspective, in the last picture the gap between the two lighthouses is over1/4 of a mile you can see how big it is.
The camera was a Nikon D90 with a Nikon 24/120 lens
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