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General Cargo Motor Vessel Indiga, keel laid, Tuesday, 01/09/1964, launched, Wednesday, 14/04/1965, to yard number 231, by Valmet Telakka, Helsinki, Finland, and completed and delivered, Wednesday, 25/08/1965, to Severnoje Morskoje Parochodstvo (SMP), Archangel, [Northern Shipping Company, Archangel

happier times, HMS Manchester coming alongside to RAS with us, somewhere in the Pacific during Global 86.

Tugs moored in the Canal waiting for a job.

HMS Manchester arriving at County Wharf Falmouth

Manchester in her heyday, coming alongside Fort Grange for RAS somewhere in the Pacific during Global 86.

Portsmouth 7 February 2010, with HMS Ark Royal and HMS Manchester.

HMS Manchester in the Pacific during Global 86

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by W. Doxford and Sons, Sunderland. (95,31x14,04x7,82 meters) (3046 GRT / 2851 NRT) Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. March 1892 Launched for J. Joyce and Co., Liverpool. Sept. 1900 Foundered on voyage from New York to Yokohama

Manchester in 1922 or earlier. The ship's masts looks to have been shortened, and then there's been erected a thin pole on top of one forward, on which there is a flag hanging at half mast. The red duster aft repeats this. (Or so it looks to me).

Manchester prior to WW 2. Left is Banffshire, right is Pacific Exporter

A 1966 photo of the turning basin at Manchester

I took this pic in 1966 when on an Ore carrier. We had discharged at Irlam and went up the canal to turn around. I remember that the Greek vessel at right had an Alsation dog on the bridge that patroled the bridge as if "on watch" looking over the dodgers regularly. A year or so later I he

This was taken at Manchester in 1966. Can anyone identify the tug in the left foreground?

From RFA Grey Rover July 1984

join the merch and see all the exotic ports, if you break down here at least the natives speak some form of english