Monday, 14 September 2020

DESTINATION HOLLAND FOR THIS CONTAINER SHIP AS IT SAILS PAST CLEETHORPES

Sailing past Cleethorpes - the good ship Henrike Schepers

This container ship, the Henrike Schepers, arrived this morning at the port of Waalhaven, part of the huge complex at Rotterdam. 

Built in 2012, the vessel  currently sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda.

Waalhaven used to be home to an airport and aircraft factory, but the Dutch army destroyed both in 1940 to prevent them falling into the hands of the Germans.

So complete was the devastation that neither were deemed worth the expense of repairing.

The Henrike Schepers regularly crosses the North Sea to and from Hull, and can been seen as it passes Cleethorpes.




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