A visitor to Douglas Harbour – Motor Yacht Solandge was built this year (2013) at the Rendsburg shipyard in Germany and will be travelling on to the Caribbean after her visit to the Isle of Man. The 85-metre vessel which has 5 decks is ranked as the 62nd largest yacht of its kind in the…
Tag: Tower of Refuge
Guard Vessel “Deilginis” Visits Douglas Bay
Spotted the Dublin registered Tug “Deilginis” sitting off the Tower of Refuge in Douglas Bay last week. I am pretty sure she was accompanying the Excalibur jack-up barge that was also sheltering in the Bay. The image was captured on my Nikon S8200 Camera resized and cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Feel free to make any comments…
Sunrise over Douglas Bay
I was up at a bit of a silly time this morning 05.15hrs and could not help capturing this Sunrise over Douglas Bay. The image were captured on my Nikon D80 DSLR with a Nikon 18-135 F3.5/5.6 G AFS DX lens and cropped and resized in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Feel free to make any comments either…
Tower of Refuge Organised Walk – 7th April 2011
Popped down to take some images of this organised walk to the Tower of Refuge tonight, there were literally thousands of people queuing to walk out to the Tower at low tide, I just took some images from the Promenade walkway (basically because I could not be bothered queuing and it was starting to rain). The image was…
Oceania Cruise Ship Marina – A Visitor to Douglas Bay
Spotted this beautiful Cruise Ship ‘Marina’ berthed just off the Tower of Refuge in Douglas Bay this afternoon (12/7/11) – (click image for larger view). The ship, according to its website was put into service in January 2011, Gross Tonnage = 65,000 tonnes, Passengers = 1,258, Passenger Decks = 11, Length = 774ft (236m), Max Beam (width) = 105ft (32m), Draft = 24ft (7.3m), Cruising…