Hi Chris, Great film, are you going to take part in next year’s event?

Pure history i hope its saved! , the youth of today would have no Appreciation for this , rather instagram and fake rubbish 🤦 sad really. The hard work that went into making that back in the day .

Shame about the music

Hello Mr. Witts, Very interesting video and for me, who lives in landlocked Austria, in the state of Styria, it is very amazing to see how a river so close to the sea and, as you say, with the second highest tide change in the world can change its appearance depending on the season! It must be very nice to be able to witness the arrivals and departures of the ships in Sharpness; here in Austria we are more photographing and filming trains and so all I can say is, it must be very nice to ride on this train from Gloucester to Cardiff, thanks for showing it! Have a nice week ahead! Many greetings from Deutschfeistritz, Styria, Austria 🇦🇹, Christoph G. 😊🚢🤝

Excellent video. I assume that the ships use the incoming tide to sail up to Sharpness and then sail away on the ebbing tide.

Very interesting...Thanks for sharing...☘️

Doesn’t John Harkers tankers still youse the sharpness canal to Gloucester. Now

0:02 In 1960s Berkeley Castle had gone. The Sharpness pilot boat stationed at Portishead then was 'Alaska'. The pilots and apprentices were housed ashore in a two room brick building on the wall outside the lock entrance. Accessed the 'Alaska' using a rowing (sculled) boat. I seem to remember hearing from them that Berkeley Castle had been taken over privately by one of the ex pilots and taken somwhere up the canal. Not sure about this now.

Does anyone watching this site know what happened to the Berkely Castle that was stationed at Portishead ??

For shipping heading upstream from Avonmouth, it's a 270 degree turn into Sharpness.

Does it have a steam engine?

I believe this ship is now moared in Bideford North Devon I think she as been restored and is open to the public

Thank you Chris. I enjoy all of your videos. Whats the tall ship in the background? Is it still in service, being used?? John , fm BC Canada

What a fantastic video. Thanks Chris. 👍

Another great video. Thanks Chris.

Channel terbaik ❤❤❤❤❤

Fare thee well little steamer! May we see many passengers enjoy being aboard soon!

Great film Chris. I remember the Gloucester tug Speedwell.

Great video ⛴️

Hi Chris. I watch ships going up and down the channel from Croyde Bay going past lundy and viewed KRISLIN on it's way up. Just found your channel and subscribed. John

Bow thrusters make it easy, hey?

Hello Mr. Witts, A wonderful and exciting recording, very interesting to be able to follow such maneuvers! Many greetings from Styria, Austria 🇦🇹, Christoph G. 😎🚢

Lytham Shipbuilding also built one of the two famed African Queen boats from the movie. The boat used on the Congo segment of the movie is the Lytham boat, and is now on display in Florida.

Yes but we discovered in our village that 300 tons of imported Egyptian fertiliser was to be replaced by 30000 tons of digester waste and 100 tons of fertiliser was still to be used to make up value. The local farm supply green crops to aid the digester because food waste for which they are designed does not produce enough gas to make them viable. Another waste of tax payers money as the digester waste is 95% of the supplied product to the digester. There is no free gas or electricity it all has a cost! For digesters it is loss of food production and land erosion for the harvest is so late cover crops are not planted. As the soil loss is so high and blasts a hole in DEFRA targets they have removed the loss from their equation. No equation no loss! They are not telling a lie because the figures are not recorded!

Interesting video, always like ship watching. I notice she was not carrying much ballast. She is now in the Gulf of Finland heading to St. Petersburg.

Was she any bigger than Arctic Dawn which as in a few years back? I think she was very tight in the lock.

Nice one...Thanks for sharing...⚓️

We have an old mine sweeper in birkenhead docks shitting on the bottom now such a shame im glad too see this one in getting a second chance and will be great once its finished well ďone to all involved in the restoration

what engines are in the tugs, rustons, widdops, nationals ?

great video as usual, many thanks

The joy of have a bow thrusters in such a tight turning circle. Thank you for a great video

Thanks Chris. Entertaining and informative as always! May I ask, what is the lock's limitation (length and beam). and has the port of Sharp-ness have a future?

Really enjoy your content, many thanks

Sad thing about this is we should,nt be importing fertaliser ,closing down the ones in the uk is biggest threst to our food supply, its looks like they want to close all the farms as well, fun fact Russia is now world's biggest fertiliser producer that boats on its way to Russia as we speak for more then it go to Rotterdam and reinvent the source of fertiliser to go to bring UK

Wonderful to watch. Thanks Chris

Nice clip thanks for the experience.

Back in the 50s as a child we would have a day trip from our home in the (Royal) Forest if Dean to Sharpness docks via the old Severn Railway Bridge. Picnic with us of course. Well remember when the bridge came down, listened to the police radio on our old VHF radio. Cycled down on the following weekend to witness the damage.

Used to love meeting up with lads on the other company ships.. used to have some right old piss ups 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳🍹🍹🍸🍸🫡

Hi I worked on the River Thames on the Tugs and I remember the traffic was Very busy , Just like Rotterdam, The Thames is now dead the only traffic is the pleasure boats and the rubbish barges , ah well thats life.

I was brought up there unrecognisable from my youth. All the pubs are gone it has clearly gone up market, great if you like that sort of thing but it was a working mill town like so many up north, but in the heart of the Cotswolds. I cannot believe there is much night life in the winter when the shops close.

Excellent video with plenty of variety. Last weekend was the Rotterdam Port week (even though I think it only took place from 6th to 8th of September).

What is the point of this video, unsubscribed and gone.

Brings back many happy memories of working on Gloucester lock…. Nobody more surprised than me to see myself at the end of the video working on Gloucester lock… cracking film Chris.

Chris Is there any regular trade into Sharpness these days ? Cheers

Now rix elenora she's made several trips to Ipswich ,but mainly working the baltic and Europe my grand daughter is named after her

I nearly forgot,it was later Dragon cement, which I think it still is.

I used to go to sharpness,when castle cement had it years ago,I was with Febrys transport,then later with CRW transport,I remember Jim who drove the bobcat,good old boys good old days.

Great video. Sad to hear the horn sound 3 times as she departed for the last time.

Cody seems like such a young name

when was this filmed and when, and why was she going to Northern Ireland ?