Parts of a fairly extensive equipment list. Everything is going down in carrying bag 90. Flight to London, Heathrow.

After an hour by metro from Heathrow, two changes.

West India Docks, South dock. Here, among the skyscrapers, are Gladan and Falken for food bunkering. Fuel has been bunkered in France, dirty diesel as it will turn out.

The former cofferdist harbor with its warehouses and cranes is now a fashionable area with luxury homes and elegant offices.

We can see The Millennium Dome beyond the dolls and locks (Ha! funny translation, dolls should be docks, locks should be sluices)

 

Notice the window line below the bowsprit. Several houses have ground floor housing with a fully glazed living room wall facing the street. No privacy there.

 

Last night at the quay. Tomorrow is intense activity and departure

 

Evening meal outside the galley

 

Everything must be ship shape. Brass should be polished ......

 

.... and the boat deck is for swabbing

 

Orders on aft deck. The night house is apparently not fully polished.

 

The wardroom (gun room in the navy)

 

 

Spit and polish

 

Gladan, who is along-ship Falken, will be sailing home to Sweden for crew change

More orders

 

N:r 2 Officer (2 O), First Cook (Chef) and the Second

 

The Captain (CO)

 

One of the four skippers giving orders by skipper's pipe

 

The crew's and guests' whereabouts, aboard or ashore

 

Ship Nos. 131, 224 and 402 (see previous picture) use the break to practice on imminent tests in sailor's knowledge. (Skylight photo)

 

Charts for the first 24 hours are kept in place on the navigation table by wooden clad lead weights

 

The port agent has ensured that food for the trip has been delivered

 

Now it is important to sort and store

 

Every nook is used, here mineral water is stowed under the deck

 

The galley

 

 

The visiting commander converses with the port police and the pilot under the supervision of CO

Gladan (The Kite)sets out with the help of her RIB boat. The tug in the background feels pretty snug on the fee.

 

We bid farewell to Gladan and her crew

 

The ship's boat is hoisted in the davers

 

A London bobby is passing by

 

The visiting commander heads towards the lock.
The wooden structure on the floor is one of the "CO's dogs". They are designed for the helmsman to be able to stand firmly and safely even when the ship is tilted.

 

Gladan is ahead of us

 

Goodbye to Canary Wharf, West India Docks and South Dock.

The RIB boats have done their thing and are now taken aboard the respective vessels

 

The machinist and the chief engineer

Last lock gate

Now we head out on the Thames

This is where the port police's responsibility ends. Now the pilot takes over.

The Millennium Dome

Oops! They certainly forgot to bring the stern ship with them. Or could it be that there is some kind of education there?

The Thames Barrier is a 20 meter high and 520 meter long flood and lowering flood barrier in the River Thames, east of London.

During Kerstin and my British trip in 1985, a good guide named Ian took us here and told us all about it.

The Thames Barrier stretches across the River Thames at Woolwich Reach and has the task of protecting London against floods caused by storm or flood.

 

The Thames Barrier is designed to withstand the type of storm surge that hit the North Sea in 1953, which initiated this construction. The dam is the world's second largest mobile dam, after the Oosterscheldekering in the Netherlands, and was completed in 1982.

 

Soon we will be out in the English Channel. We pass Gladan by engine

 

The pilot leaves us to our fate

 

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover

 

The ship's doctor looks forward with confidence to a healthy sail

 

At the tip of the arrow: Isle of Dogs with Canary Wharf

Our schooners were at "u" in the South Dock

In October 2020 I found this photograph from 1940 on the web. Compare with the map above.

Klicka på Engelska Kanalen
så fortsätter vi seglatsen

Till START-sidan