New Deal for Heavy Lifts on Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Mercury heads for Liver Building
MERCURY heads for the Liver Building. Pictures by Mark Chapman.

Winter 2010: The new owners of the 50ft [15.25m] converted mud hopper MERCURY called in Sealand Boat Deliveries to move her from Lancashire to the River Thames. By Easter Week, British Waterways were accepting bookings for boat visits to the Salthouse Dock and granted MERCURY a transit permit to join a convoy of three other boats passing through the Liverpool Link on Good Friday. After three days steaming from Manchester, with MERCURY drawing 3ft 3in [1.0m], Derek Bent linked up with the convoy. He checked in with BW gangers Dan Russell, Phil Bather and Frank Tennant at the apponted time of 09:30, at Bridge 9, near Aintree - timed to the minute.

MERCURY, on the Stanley Dock Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Beyond the tunnel under Great Howard Street looms the empty Tobacco Warehouse, built in 1900 and thought to be the largest brick building in the world. Stanley Dock, now part of a World Heritage Site, is the terminus of the great trans-Pennine canal that was built between 1770 and 1816.
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Mann Island
After four days on passage from Manchester, MERCURY passes Mann Island on the 24 million pound Liverpool Canal Link in the heart of Liverpool.

Phil Bather and Dan Russell
British Waterways gangers Dan Russell and Phil Bather, experts at leading convoys from Aintree to Canning Dock.
Lifting Mercury at Liverpool Marina
The 60 tonne boat hoist at Liverpool Marina lifts MERCURY to transport for just GBP 475.00.

tangled propeller
Tangled propeller after fifty miles on Lancashire canals.

Loading Mercury
Sealand team loading the 32 tonne barge for road delivery to the River Thames at Kennet and Avon Marina, Caversham Lakes.


Just another heavy load on the motorway.
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