If I had a penny for every time I had walked up and down that walk way over the years! A least four times a day, 5/6 days a week during all the 80s to mid 90s! Great footage! Will never cease to amaze me how something like Laura 1 can lift anything whilst on water! A crane on land need out riggers etc and this monster just floats! Great footage as always!
This crane ship Lara 1 is the ex 'Mersey Mammoth' from the 1980s. There was another Mammith from around 1920 but not sure what happened to that one. That never had the Mersey prefix like the former one mentioned.
@@merseyshipping4494 The one I was thinking of was in the 1950's when I was a kid. It was considerably larger than than the Lara 1. It could lift 200 tons, including the Pier Head Landing stage and small ships, and was "the biggest floating crane in the world" according to The Echo.
If I had a penny for every time I had walked up and down that walk way over the years! A least four times a day, 5/6 days a week during all the 80s to mid 90s!
Great footage! Will never cease to amaze me how something like Laura 1 can lift anything whilst on water! A crane on land need out riggers etc and this monster just floats!
Great footage as always!
Seen the Mersey Mamoth in Douglas When it Helped with the New Walkway for The Ben-My-Chree When i Was Crew on Her 25 Years Ago.
Very interesting veasel
Great great clear pictures, such clarity, I loved it all. I really loved it all. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it. Appreciate it
Great video. Also nice with the skyline from Liverpool at the background. 👍
Thanks! 👍
Hello Mersey Shipping. Wow, what a great engineering feat. So well executed. Great pictures. Excellent video. Thank you. Spoolbox.
Many thanks!
blimey that dingy underneath the hanging linkspan looked scary.
I was thinking the same when it happened 👍
Great video, quite dramatic. What ever happened to the Mammoth, is it still around?
This crane ship Lara 1 is the ex 'Mersey Mammoth' from the 1980s. There was another Mammith from around 1920 but not sure what happened to that one. That never had the Mersey prefix like the former one mentioned.
@@merseyshipping4494 The one I was thinking of was in the 1950's when I was a kid. It was considerably larger than than the Lara 1.
It could lift 200 tons, including the Pier Head Landing stage and small ships, and was "the biggest floating crane in the world" according to The Echo.