Gravesend: movements on the River Thames.

From Gravesend’s ‘Gordon Promenade’. Another tug, of course, this time the appropriately named Svitzer Thames: some other stuff, too – a second, older tug, Merit, which shows on Marine Traffic as a leisure boat, a Port Of London Authority launch, Galloper (hydrographic survey) and a ro ro cargo ship, Victorine, heading up river to Dagenham, possibly carrying Ford vehicles.

The “extra” is a 20 year old picture (4 November 2003) of 3 more tugs (!) taken from roughly the same position – Higham, then in use as a crew carrier but now a tug itself (Higham is a village near Gravesend – Dickens lived there from 1865 and died there in 1870) and two bright orange tugs, Gurrong and Redcliffe (later Svitzer tugs Victory and Keelby). Pentax istD with a Sigma 28-70mm zoom.