Red Sands Fort

A maintenance trip to service the Red Sands Radio Fort antenna

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33. Shipping in the Oaze Deep

Alternative East into the Alexandra, Princes, or Queens, or the Edinburgh into the Knock Deep

34. North East leg of G1 & part of Oxford Picture Frame Base

35. Nigel checking the leg straps

36. Red Sands Radio antenna 1

37. Red Sands Radio antenna with wind turbine

38. Red Sands Radio antenna from base

39. Red Sands Radio antenna through base

Whilst extremely strong the antenna mast is made of fibre glass

40. Red Sands Radio antenna with new guys

41. West bound for the River Medway or Thames

42. Control Tower & Jungle Walk, G2, G1 with Red Sands Radio antenna

43. Beneath the Control Tower

48. Control & G1 Towers

49. Heading North 1

50. Heading North 2

51. North Red Sand Towers Port handed Buoy 1

52. & 53. North Red Sand Towers Port handed Buoy close-up

54. North Red Sand Towers Buoy & Forts

55. North East of Red Sand Towers

56. North of Red Sand Towers 1

56. North of Red Sand Towers 2

57. Under tow

PLO (Port of London) VTS (Vessel Traffic Services) reported the ships breakdown, a pair of Medway Tugs were dispatched to assist

58. Cluster of Channel Buoys

59. Isle-of-Grain Power Station Chimney

60. Ghostly through the mist

61. Grain Power Station Chimney is no longer standing

62. Video Clip (The Guardian)

The 800' Chimney was demolished by explosion on Wednesday 7th September 2016 leaving a 40,000 ton pile of concrete & brick rubble

63. Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery

64. Medway Pilot Cutter passes fairly close to the wreck

The dredged channel is very close to the wreck

65. Medway Pilot Cutter's wake

See our feature on the SS Richard Montgomery

The X-Pilot is available to hire for Thames Estuary excursions from her base on the River Medway & the All Tide Landing at Queenborough

PLA (Port of London Authority) Passage Planning Guide