Heavy Lift Vessel 'Fjord' and 'Ice Maiden 1' - River Tyne

Heavy Lift vessel 'Fjord' arrives in the River Tyne carrying the ice breaking ship 'Ice Maiden 1' which will be eventually despatched to shiprepairers A & P in Hebburn, South Tyneside. Ice Maiden 1 will be converted to a floating accomadation ship for oil workers at the yard.

Update Sept 2010 - The conversion never took place as one of the companies involved went bust. Ice Maiden 1 is still on the River Tyne to this day (25/09/2010) but is slowly being broke up,.

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Science & Technology

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• Ship
• vessel
• Tyne
• Ice
• breaker
• Maiden
• Fjord
• Hebburn
• Appledore
• Shipyard
• Carry
• Transport
• Tyneside

[outlawtampa30]

I was one of the welders getting the ice maiden water tight for it to be shipped back to england. It was a amazeing sight seeing it on that platform.

[allan5919]

@outlawtampa30 - Thanks for your comment.

The Ice Maiden is still in the River Tyne rusting away and waiting to be cut up I believe. The conversion work never materialised after financial difficulties by one of the parties involved. When it sailed into the River Tyne that day it looked like a lot of work on the River to convert it to an accomadation ship, but it was not to be.

Cheers - Allan.

[backnorth]

Its good to see that there is activity and work coming to the Tyne.

And one of the old A & p Tyne dockyards is going to be used to build parts of the new Tyne tunnel.

[allan5919]

Hi Backnorth,

I hadn't realised that the new Tunnel parts were being built at A & P. It's great that this type of work is staying locally.

Cheers

Allan5919

[outlawtampa30]

@balacau The Ice Maiden was gonna be rebuilt at one of the shipyards in mobile, al but the vice president overseeing the project to turn the ice maiden into a flotel meaning houseing for oil rig workers embezzeled the money to rebuild it so they shut the project down.

[balacau]

The tunnel segments are being built in one of the old Neptune yard drydocks. Its a shame there wasn't a viewing area to see this happening as I would have been really interested!

I'm not so sure about what's happening with IceMaiden 1 however, nothing seems to be happening with it these days. Anyone know any details?