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PLA Galleries

2012

Listed below are all our galleries uploaded in 2012.

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MS Adeline, the latest addition to CLdN’s fleet of ro-ro freight vessels was christened in a ceremony held on the River Thames on Friday 26th October 2012. Adeline sailed through Tower Bridge to be christened while moored alongside HMS Belfast. Honorary Chaplain to the Royal Navy, Reverend Gordon Warren lead the Christening ceremony from on board the river cruiser Silver Sturgeon, accompanied by the guests of CLdN. The Honourable Ms. Alice Walpole, Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, accepted the role of Godmother to the new ship. and concluded the formal ceremony by naming the ship and breaking a bottle of champagne against the vessel’s hull.

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Christening of MV Adeline on the Thames

Our photo gallery from this year’s Jubilee Great River Race on 15 September 2012. A 19-strong PLA team of harbour masters, launch crews and marine services personnel oversaw the safe running of the 21-mile event from seven PLA vessels. The competitors rowed from Millwall to Ham

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Great River Race 2012

We supported this year’s Thames Festival river photo competition which was won by Adam Lister. Adam’s prize is a visit to our Port Control Centre and a trip on our harbour service launch.

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Thames Festival River Photo Competition 2012

The Paralympic Torch took to the River Thames during the final stages of its epic 24-hour relay from Aylesbury to east London on Wednesday 29th August 2012. The Torch Party boarded the ex-PLA survey vessel Havengore, which transported Winston Churchills coffin on the River Thames during his State Funeral in 1965, at Greenwich. Escorted by a small flotilla of vessels, the Havengore crossed the Thames to the Isle of Dogs where the Paralympic Flame continued its journey to the Olympic Park at Stratford for the Opening Ceremony later that evening.

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Paralympics Torch Relay

In the early hours of Wednesday 22nd August 2012 the Paralympic Agitos were carefully lifted into position on Tower Bridge to replace the Olympic Rings.

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Installation of Paralympics Agitos on Tower Bridge

In the early hours of Tuesday 21st August 2012 the Olympic Rings, which have adorned Tower Bridge for several weeks, were removed to make way for the installation of the Paralympics Agitos symbols. Our photographer was on the scene to record this event -

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Removal of Olympic Rings from Tower Bridge

On Friday, 27 July 2012, the Port of London Authority (PLA) accompanied the royal barge, Gloriana carrying the Olympic Torch, on the last leg of its 70-day UK tour, downriver from Teddington Lock to a barge with Olympic rings on outside City Hall. Five launches were used during the operation, with more on normal duties available if needed, as the PLA controlled navigation around and within the flotilla. A team of PLA rowers on-board the cutter Penelope joined other cutters accompanying the torch downriver of Chelsea.

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Olympic Torch on the Thames

On Friday, 27 July 2012, the Port of London Authority (PLA) accompanied the royal barge, Gloriana carrying the Olympic Torch, on the last leg of its 70-day UK tour, downriver from Teddington Lock to a barge with Olympic rings on outside City Hall. Five launches were used during the operation, with more on normal duties available if needed, as the PLA controlled navigation around and within the flotilla. A team of PLA rowers on-board the cutter Penelope joined other cutters accompanying the torch downriver of Chelsea.

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Olympic Torch Relay: Teddington to Tower Bridge

PLA harbour service controlled navigation around Tower Bridge for the arrival of the Olympic flame into London.

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Olympic Flame at the Tower of London

Early on the morning of 24 July 2012, the cruise ship Deutschland travelled along the Thames to West India Dock lock entrance. Piloted by PLA pilots Dave Hocking and Richard Irwin, working with the team at the Canal & River Trust the vessel was slowly reversed into the lock and finally to her berth at South Quay.

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Visit of Cruise Ship Deutschland