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Moment police raid illegal rave on boat in north London and arrest organiser who has already been fined £10,000 for similar lockdown bash – as officers in North Yorkshire catch reveller hiding in the ATTIC at party The Met Police’s Marine Unit found 30 people on a canal boat in Hackney Officers raided the boat … Read more
Health and safety fail! Dramatic moment a crane tips over on a barge and falls into river while dredging in Vietnam Crane was clearing soil from the Co Chien River in Vinh Long, Vietnam, in April The machine buckled under the weight of a heavy load and toppled into the river Its operator jumped out … Read more
The owner of one of the country’s oldest working horse-drawn barges has been forced to stopped her river trips after clashes with ‘snowflake’ canal users. Jenny Roberts, who owns Iona, has closed the Godalming Packetboat Company after 35 years, citing criticism from people using the towpath. Her horses, Buddy, Alizee, and Espoir have been retired … Read more
So much for being a NARROW boat! Fire crew saves family after their canal barge gets WEDGED in lock and starts SINKING West Midlands Fire Service called to Botterham Lock in Wombourne, at 10.22am Three people left stranded on the canal boat after it got wedged in the lock Fire crews rescued all three on … Read more
The Queen’s £2million royal barge that led the Diamond Jubilee flotilla down the Thames in 2012 will get a new sumptuous home on the Greenwich peninsula. The 88-foot-long vessel will be moved from St Katharine Docks in the borough of Tower Hamlets to a boathouse on the Greenwich Peninsula. It comes as part of a proposal from … Read more
The quirky boats that now rule on dry land, from a 19th Century barge in Suffolk to a former ferry in Cornwall A 19th Century Dutch barge moored on the River Deben in Suffolk sleeps four A Cornish farm is the setting for The Wild-de-go, once an Isles of Scilly ferry Wake up in the … Read more
A couple who couldn’t afford to get on the property ladder in London have transformed a 1960s cargo barge into a stunning two-storey floating home. Christina Miles, 33, and her partner Rohan Tully, 36, who have been together 13 years and have a one-year-old daughter, Elara, have been living on their boat – currently moored near … Read more
Moment a giant 5,000-tonne crane folds in half and collapses as it lifts a barge during load tests Orion ship suffered the damage during stress tests at Rostock harbour, Germany It was meant to sail for Moray East windfarm, in Scotland, for construction work Commissioner DEME said they were investigating how the collapse occurred By Luke … Read more