Cruise ship LE CHAMPLAIN passes under Tower Bridge on 11th May 2024. LE CHAMPLAIN was departing London on a one way cruise to Greenock Ocean Terminal on the River Clyde. It was assisted by the tugs SERVICEMAN and VB BENELUX.

@q.e.d.9112

23 күн бұрын

Is she scheduled to start a new cruise from Greenock? If so where to?

@ThamesShips

23 күн бұрын

@@q.e.d.9112 Yes - it departs on 18th May on a 7 night cruise to Bergen arriving on 25th May. It seems that it doesn't cruise again until 8th June with a 7 night cruise back to Greenock (arriving on 15th June). It then leaves Greenock on 15th June with a 7 night cruise back to Bergen (arriving on 22nd June).

It is such a great and beautiful video. Also nice to see the Tower Bridge and this ship sailing across it. Love it.

@ThamesShips

18 күн бұрын

Yes - I always like to see Tower Bridge lifting. 👍

I do hope Le Champlain paid the ULEZ charge !!!!!! Have dined aboard HMS Belfast twice when an owner of a Dunkirk Little ship, the last one coincided with my birthday which made it even better. In the filming of Brannigan my elder brother jumped an E Type Jaguar over the partly open Tower Bridge. It's great to be a Londoner. Thanks for posting.

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for all the information. That is an interesting fact about your brother. I am looking forward to the ADLS event from 24th to 26th May at SKD marina.

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Just watched the car chase scene on YT with John Wayne. Very interesting!

Thank you, I really enjoyed watching this video. The Tower Bridge opening looks impressive.

@ThamesShips

25 күн бұрын

Thanks as always for your kind comment. 👍

shame it ended. I wanted more. Fantastic video, thanks

@ThamesShips

22 күн бұрын

Thanks again for your kind comment. 👍👍

Excellent video, i loved it ❤

@ThamesShips

24 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching and for your kind comment 👍👍

Lovely piece 👌

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Great video!

@ThamesShips

25 күн бұрын

Thanks! 👍👍Hopefully it won't be sailing stern first all the way!

Great vid

@ThamesShips

25 күн бұрын

Thanks mate. 👍

4:27 - 4:50. A compendium of the centuries of architecture that makes up London.

@ThamesShips

23 күн бұрын

Yes - that is true. So much history there...

Great video and was good to see Le Champlain needing tug assistance. Where did she turn ? I should have gone over to Greenwich to watch her passing, but mixed up the times !

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching! I think that she would have turned near the O2. When the large ships come in to the Greenwich Tier, they usually turn around at the bend around the O2 so I assume that they also turn there on the way out.

@anthonywarrener1881

26 күн бұрын

@@ThamesShips Thank you very much.

@paulwarren4256

22 күн бұрын

She turns at Wapping

@paulwarren4256

22 күн бұрын

You should have a video of her turning at Wapping - the sight if the tugs manoeuvring is impressive

@ThamesShips

22 күн бұрын

@@paulwarren4256 Thanks for the info! 👍

Nick from Aquaholics caught her in the Dartmouth estuary a few days later.

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Thanks - I will have a look at that later!

Was,the ship stern first sailing under tower brisge looked like it to me

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching the video. Yes - when it arrived it was sailing in the correct direction but the river is not wide enough for it to turn around there. As you say, it was sailing stern first back down the river with tug assistance until it can turn around.

I was passing by on an Uber boat as the tugs pulled her away from HMS Belfast.

@ThamesShips

23 күн бұрын

Nice one 👍If you are a regular user of the Uber boats then you will probably have seen RFA Proteus over the last day or two and also World Navigator arrived this evening.

@terrystevens5261

23 күн бұрын

@@ThamesShips I'm not a regular user of Uber boats. it was my 70th birthday last friday and my wife treated me to a weekend in London. i live in Gloucestershire and i really had a good time.

@ThamesShips

23 күн бұрын

@@terrystevens5261 I'm glad you enjoyed it. Belated happy birthday!

Does anyone know where along the river they were able to turn her round ?

@ThamesShips

22 күн бұрын

Somebody in the comments in one of the other videos said that it was Wapping.

@paulkirkland3263

22 күн бұрын

@@ThamesShips Thanks for that. The river does widen a little there, so it makes sense. Great video, by the way.

@ThamesShips

22 күн бұрын

@@paulkirkland3263 Thanks 👍

OOOO To HAVE MONEY ?

Shouldn't you be paid by the Cruise company to go on a one-way trip to Greenock?😀

@ThamesShips

26 күн бұрын

My parents both grew up around there and I still visit family members up there. I think the West Coast of Scotland is a nice place to visit.

@q.e.d.9112

23 күн бұрын

Alright, humour aside, they’re on a 7+ day cruise which at about 900 nautical miles is possibly 50 hours on passage. The other 118 hours will be shared between Portland, Dartmouth, the Scilly Isles, Dublin and Belfast.

I have lived in London all my life and have never witnessed Tower Bridge lifting in real time, only on tv programmes and on a video like this one! I have even been down and “inside” the Bridge and saw the bascules and how they lift - but still have never seen the bridge rise up in all itts magnificence! 😳🥺🥲 one day maybe….?

@ThamesShips

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching the video. I would love to visit inside the bridge one day! Hopefully you will be able to see the bridge lift soon. If it helps, expected lift times are shown on the Tower Bridge web site at www.towerbridge.org.uk/lift-times

@brigidsingleton1596

22 күн бұрын

I had been a Londoner all my life but never remembered seeing the Tower Bridge open to allow ships through during my younger years - until - David Blaine did his "living in a glass box", suspended next to the bridge whenever it was (I forget the year, sorry) but every time my three offspring and I visited to watch David Blaine, (and enjoy the London sights), we watched Tower Bridge open and close several times, so I was glad my offspring wanted to see David Blaine, as they and I got to watch the bridge open and close its cantilevered roads too, and that was far more impressive to my mind, than an illusionist living in a glass box, suspended between London's far more famous sights!! 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂❤️🇬🇧🖖

@ThamesShips

22 күн бұрын

@@brigidsingleton1596 Thanks for watching the video. 👍 Yes - I think that was back in 2003. I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it there!

@philtucker1224

21 күн бұрын

I was under the impression it costs about £30,000 to have the bridge opened and it all has to be booked months in advance??

@ThamesShips

21 күн бұрын

@@philtucker1224 No - you only have to give 24 hours notice and the bridge lift is completely free. You can find more information at www.towerbridge.org.uk/lift-times/book-a-bridge-lift One of the conditions of building Tower Bridge was that it could not obstruct river traffic so vessels always have priority over road traffic. In addition, vessels could not be charged so lifts are funded by the Bridge House Estates. There is one famous case in 1997 when the motorcade of the then US President Bill Clinton was split up when the bridge was lifted to allow a vessel to pass under!