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Calshot Harbour featured in an image taken from the helicopter of HMS Richmond on 31st October 2013
Puma Road is the access road which connects the harbour to the village.
The fishing factory is the large grey building sited overlooking the harbour.
Calshot Harbour (named after the Hampshire village which housed Tristanians between 1962-3 after the enforced evacuation following the volcanic eruption), was first opened in 1967. It cannot accommodate any ocean-going vessels or yachts, which must anchor some distance off the coast. Local craft ferry passengers & supplies to be offloaded in the harbour.

< Big Beach
was used as a landing to offload boats until it was destroyed by lava in 1961.

Anchorage>
Fishing Boat MV Tristania approaching the anchorage in 1982

< 1970 Harbour
Roland Svensson's 1978 stamp design of Calshot Harbour, opened in 1967.

Wave Attack >
The harbour is shallow & even modest waves beak here, closing it on most days a year.
Photo by Janice Hentley
< Modern Harbour
Extended & improved but still inadequate despite locally made 'dolosse' breakwaters.
> New Site Rejected
Little Beach Lagoon was been surveyed as a potential new harbour site, but would have cost £21 million & is now abandoned.
Photos: James Glass

Operation Zest
16,000 tonne RFA Lyme Bay transported a joint services Task Force in 2008 to carry out extensive harbour reinforcements thought to have cost £7m.

Photos show: Above Left:
RFA Lyme Bay at anchor off Tristan

Above Right:
Vehicles & Equipment coming ashore

Left:
Laying concrete on the Western Breakwater

Right:
Task Force commanders with Administrator David Morley and Chief Islander Conrad Glass on completion of the work

Crane Replacement

Tristan's old heavy-duty crane collapsed on 11th April 2008.
A new fixed gantry crane was erected in December 2008

Photos show:
Left: The old crane in use
Right: The new crane after commissioning in January 2009

2009 Strengthening Work

Further strengthening work was carried out in 2009

Photos show:

Left: Repairs to the nib
Right: New white dolosse placed outside harbour walls

 

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