DOCKERS MAKE LIGHT WORK OF PORT'S LARGEST VESSEL.A NORTH Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. port dealt efficiently with the biggest ship ever to visit yesterday. Sea Bird called at Porth Porth (Welsh: Y Porth) is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, lying in the Rhondda Valley and is regarded as the gateway to the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach valleys because Penrhyn Penrhyn: see Cook Islands. , Bangor Bangor, town, Northern Ireland Bangor (băng`gər), town (1991 pop. 70,750), North Down dist., E Northern Ireland, on Belfast Lough. It is a seaport, resort, and yachting center (site of an annual regatta), with some light industry. , carrying sections of a wind turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. . The ship had been chartered to carry the turbine built by Bangor-based Cambrian Engineering. A spokesman said it was the biggest such turbine built by the company. "Using a ship to carry the sections was the only realistic option. And the sections are so big the ship had to be quite big too but we were surprised to learn this was the biggest ship ever to use the harbour." The ship arrived at Porth Penrhyn on the high tide just before 10am and spent the rest of the day being loaded with the turbine sections which were brought to the harbour from the Cambrian Engineering factory on the Llandegai Industrial estate about two miles away. A harbour spokesman said the ship was handled with no problems. CAPTION(S): BIG JOB: The Sea Bird in Porth Penrhyn, Bangor Picture: STEVE PEAKE |
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