Balmoral Cruise Ship and Syros Oil Tanker, Admiralty Pier, Dover Harbour, Kent, UK

The Fred Olsen Cruise Lines passenger ship, MS Balmoral, berthed at Cruise Terminal 1 (CT1) on the Admiralty Pier of Dover Harbour:


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In front of the Balmoral is the Liberian-flagged oil products carrier, Syros (details below); out of view to the left is the Celebrity Constellation (see below), a Millennium class cruise ship.

Photographed from the Prince of Wales Pier just after sunrise on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010.

A description of the Balmoral from the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines website (1):

Named after the Scottish home of the Royal Family, Balmoral has accommodation for about 1,300 passengers, through 710 cabins and suites. All the ship's public rooms have a Scottish theme: its principal restaurant, Ballindalloch, is named after a Speyside village and castle; while the ship's other two formal restaurants, Avon and Spey are named in honour of two of Scotland's loveliest salmon rivers.

Balmoral details:

MS Balmoral Cruise Ship at Sunrise, Western Entrance, Dover Harbour, Kent, UK

The MS Balmoral Cruise Ship framed in the Western Entrance of Dover Harbour at 6.02 am on Monday, 26th of July, 2010:


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The Admiralty Pier is on the right and the English Channel is on the left; the photo was taken from the the Prince of Wales Pier.

The Balmoral passenger ship, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, is shown arriving in the Port of Dover from Honfleur (France) at the end of a 16-night "French Connection" cruise.

Later in the day, the passenger ship left Dover at the start of a 12-night round-trip "Beauty of the North" cruise with the following itinerary:

Warnemunde (Warnemünde, Germany), Ronne (Rønne, Denmark), Gdynia (Poland), St Petersburg (Russia), Tallinn (Estonia), and Copenhagen (Denmark)

Vessel details:

Panorama of Balmoral Cruise Ship at the Admiralty Pier and Dover Harbour, Western Heights, Kent, UK

This snow-covered panorama of the Western Docks and English Channel was taken from the access road leading to the Commando Entrance of the Drop Redoubt on Saturday, 19th of December, 2009:



Also in view: the Fred Olsen Cruise Line's MS Balmoral Cruise Ship, the Victorian Clock Tower, Dover's RNLB 17-09 City of London II lifeboat rescue craft and Lifeboat Station, Crosswall Quay, Dolphin Hard Jetty, the old Hoverport, Lord Warden House (ex-Lord Warden Hotel and ex-World War II Royal Navy HMS Wasp shore station), the old Dover Marine railway station, Granville Dock, the Tidal Harbour and Tug Haven.

The barbed-wire fence of Drop Redoubt Road in the foreground leads to the Napoleonic Grand Shaft.

More information (including sources used) can be found on this photo's original webpage at:

Panorama of Balmoral Cruise Ship at the Admiralty Pier, Dover Harbour, Western Heights

Also see:

MS Balmoral Cruise Ship at Sunrise, Western Entrance, Dover Harbour

All photos are indexed under the MS Balmoral category label.

A Western Heights photo.

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Clickable thumbnails of all Dover Harbour- and Western Heights-related photos from the main Panoramio Images of Dover website are available on this blog at Port of Dover Page and Western Heights Page (also linked to at the top below the blog title).

The main site Panoramio photos are each accompanied by a Google Earth satellite map. However, the images are smaller than those on the Images of Dover Blog and the captions are less well formatted.

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