Great photo Mutley.
It may have been Heysham or Liverpool if you were going to the Isle of Mann.
They say that you had to remove your battery and drain your fuel tanks to go to the TT races.
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21-11-2010, 10:58 PM #11Richard1955Guest
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22-11-2010, 12:08 AM #12MutleyGuest
No!
the photo was taken boarding a ferry to Ireland in the early 1950s. We were ''on route" to Tipperary.
I did not go to the Isle of Mann TT races until the l960s and then, not in a old motorbike and sidecar and not with my parents!!!
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22-11-2010, 7:11 AM #13Kevin GarradGuest
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22-11-2010, 9:22 AM #14
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Gotta love a Man who knws his 'boats'.
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22-11-2010, 11:51 AM #15Kevin GarradGuest
I used to live on the Isle of Man; my fianceé and her family still do!
At this moment, there's a Manx flag on my desk!!
Used the boats a few times.
Mother-in-law-to-be won't fly, so the family use them all the time.
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22-11-2010, 7:52 PM #16spisonGuest
Interesting picture Mutley. Can't say we've ever had anything like that in Oz!
Jane
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23-11-2010, 9:54 PM #17MutleyGuest
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23-11-2010, 10:51 PM #18Richard1955Guest
The vessels from Liverpool have improved alot in the last 10 years and I have used them many times
but I have also sailed from Heysham to IOM to the TT races and been on very old boats.
I think one of them was built in the 30's. Perhaps they bring out the older vessels for the increased business.
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23-11-2010, 11:26 PM #19MutleyGuest
Even the old boats must comply with all the regulations and, believe me, they are very strict these days. Every passenger carrying ferry must pass a yearly MOT and has a long list of safety requirements that need to be fulfilled. They are subject to spot checks at any time.
It is not so easy and does not make economic sense to 'bring out' an old vessel because, that old vessel has to be maintained in the same way as their other passenger vessels. I would be very surprised to find an old pre war vessel able to pass the necessary regulations required today without extensive alterations at a huge cost.
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24-11-2010, 7:26 AM #20Kevin GarradGuest
Of the Steam Packet company's pre-war boats, 3 of the 5 were sunk during WW2 (2 at Dunkirk), 1 was scrapped in 1965, and the other scrapped in 1971.
So you could NOT have travelled on a 1930's boat in recent times!
Of the 6 boats built between 1946 and 1955, all were decommissioned between 1962 and 1982.
There were 4 side-loading car ferries, 2 decommissioned in 1984, one in 1990.
The last of these, Lady of Mann was sold to a Greek ferry company in 2005. Lady of Mann was built in 1976.
Six RO-RO ferries were built between 1966 and 1979, and were in service between 1981 and 1998.
So, you were most likely to have been on the Lady of Mann, built in 1976, refit 1989.
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