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25-Mar-2009 AKMC

090325_123126_4460 Ships, Planes And Automobiles (Wed 25 Mar 09)

Pyrmont NSW

No, no trains, but hey, you go with what you've got. An unidentified jetliner heading north out of Kingsford Smith airport in Mascot can be seen over the Anzac (formerly Glebe Island) Bridge. One of the main arteries to the Western suburbs, the Anzac Bridge is usually well trafficked, as we see here. (Additional images of the bridge will be found elsewhere in this gallery.)

Underneath the bridge we see the Claudia I (which hauls road building materials between Wollongong and Sydney) passing the decommissioned former guided missile frigate HMAS Adelaide, a gallery of images for which can be found elsewhere in these pages. (The PBase link is here.)

I was hoping to get a 747 coming out of Mascot, which would have had more physical presence in the image. But sometimes, you just have to make do. And I got Claudia I into the shot, which was a bonus.

Edit September 2023: The aggregate carrier Claudia I (built 1983, 91.88 metres by 15.12m, 3,295 gross tonnage) appears to be no more. I can't find any tracking references on the usual sites, and marinetraffic.com reports it as either "decommissioned or lost". But then, 40 is not young for a ship, especially one whose living was made hauling around heavy building material from one place to another. THAT is what we call a hard life.

Oh, and you won't see many 747s (other than a few that are still doing cargo work) either; most of those have gone to the great boneyard on the ground over the last decade as well.


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