1988 - Southampton to Cowes IOW
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- 1988 - Southampton to Cowes IOW
Dubbed from VHS tape 4:3, the video quality is a little outdated, (we're so spoilt now with mobile phones), but at least it has synced sound !
Red Funnel "Cowes Castle" car ferry, passing Southampton Quay before the redevelopment of all of the buildings and the Marina,
....down Southampton Water, passing "Island Scene", and Isle of Wight trip boat,
.....then passed by the Red Funnel "Shearwater" hydrofoil foot ferry, then again going the other way as we reach the Cowes waterfront,
.....past Shephard's Wharf, before the Marina redevelopment,
...then at 05:08 minutes, arriving at the East Cowes terminal, the video immediately continues with the return journey, a week later,
...."Cowes Castle" again, showing the docking procedure with the movable ramp,
....at 09:58, a brief glimpse of a military looking version of a new SRN4 vehicle carrying hovercraft at the rear of Westland's sheds at East Cowes,
.... at 11:49, it calls in at West Cowes Pier, as it did in those days, for cars as well as passengers, as it had a loading door in the side as well.
Wonderful memories cheers on living on the island
Born and bred on Island, I remember these ferries, when lorries had to reverse on, cars drove on up one side and there was a turntable at the rear then drove down the other side, and the ferry used to stop at West Cowes before crossing to East Cowes, the good old days
Will you look at that... the cowes floating bridge...WORKING!
I work on the Cows Castle as a deck boy, it was my first job on leaving school in 1972, left on the Friday at 14-40pm and by 5am I was working on that Cows Castle, got on well with all the deck hands, remember Roy Baker he was our Bosun, joined them in July and left in late Sept to go deep sea
I often wonder if I'd lived on the Coast if my career had been different. My annual holidays always left me envious of any jobs connected with ships and boats, but I was born a hundred miles inland, so I spent most of my life as a boring telephone engineer (hence the dial avatar :
@@ShorebasePaul Well don't it is a hard life, and then you get kick about by the government taking your job away so you have nothing but poor paid jobs, this is what happen in my city when Thatcher became PM, Southampton was one of the world major ports, it employed thousands of seamen and more in the shipyards, docks there was over 100,000 people employed in this industry, more than the population of this city, you look at it now, it is counted in the hundreds and the city as grown to just over 1/4 million, and you be lucky if you get a job let alone on the water
Yes, 'The Grass is always Greener' whenever you look back on 'what might have been'.
Back in the 1960's when I left school I nearly applied to be a 'Navigating Officer Cadet' with the P&O when they were a respected company. I chickened out though, and joined the GPO as a Telephone Engineer.
So when the P&O recently sacked all of their UK crews on their Ferries, I was even more amazed than most people at how crap the firm had become.
1 of the Jenny boats in view
Whats brown and smelly and comes out of cows backwards......... the Isle of Wight ferry.
even worse nowadays.... it comes out forwards as well.......:
@Paul u mind if I share wiv Solent Ships channel plz many thanks
No problem Danno, share away....
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