One bomb fell between the ship and a wet basin wall, narrowly missing a 100-ton dockside crane, and exploded underwater below the bilge keel.
He had given this familiar laugh of his a few weeks ago when a dockside crane had dropped a four-hundredweight crate of glassware into the dock.
THREE huge dockside cranes an eyesore to many people are being demolished.
Cranes go: Three huge dockside cranes, regarded as an eyesore by some local residents, are being demolished at Bidston, Birkenhead.
Even with the help of a dockside crane, putting it up again proved even more problematic.
Meanwhile, Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping.
Their cranes were used on oil tankers, and they sold dockside cranes for the Thames Conservancy.
Windlass raised the plane, brought it on board between the two "horns" forward, and returned to Norfolk where the aircraft was removed by a dockside crane.
New equipment, from dockside cranes to the containers themselves, had to be developed.
While being designed for roll-on roll-off operations the ships can also be loaded using dockside cranes.