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Grimsby Dock Tower

Grimsby Dock Tower is a hydraulic accumulator tower and a maritime landmark at the entrance to the Royal Dock, Grimsby, in North East Lincolnshire, England. It was completed on 27 March 1852, based on William Armstrong's idea of the hydraulic accumulator, with the purpose of containing a 30,000-imperial-gallon (140,000 L) reservoir at a height of 200 feet (61 m), that was used to provide hydraulic power to power the machinery of the Grimsby Docks. The extreme height of the tower was necessary to achieve sufficient pressure, and as a result of this, the tower can be seen for several miles around, even far inland on the north bank of the River Humber and is a great reference for VFR flight.

This scenery also includes the smaller weighted accumulator tower.

There will be more updates to include modelling of the surrounding dock area if the requirement arises :)

This works very nicely with our other scenery in the region which are available here:
Spurn Point Landmarks
EGNJ Humberside Airport
EGNY Linley Hill Airfield

IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from a previous version please delete the uk-humber-grimsby-tower directory from your community folder first.

Please see the attached PDF file inside the zip file which covers: Installation; Finding the community folder; Licensing; Credits; Contacts; Change Log.

See you in the Sim!

Chris [ AKA CAPT 5L0W ]

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Coordonnées GPS

53.583178, -0.070274

Changelog récent for 1.3.0

- Removed spurious buildings from the dockside.
- Added parked cars and various shipping containers.
- Recompiled with the current SDK for continuity.

1,890 Downloads 25 February 2021

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Reviews

Thx for all your updates. A lot of work

11 months ago

CaptainMoonlight

fantastic, it kinda bugged me that the dock tower wasnt there

2 years ago

Trev82usa

Once again Excellent Chris, Please can you tidy up lindsey Oil Refinery if possible? as you know its a major Landmark Chimneys there and south ferriby cemex works near reeds island. Plus Humberside Terminal somebody ! .. No idea what they've done to that. Enjoy the Coffee Chris and many thanks for your great work buddy!
Haydn.

3 years ago

HJD

Yes POI would be great any chance you could maybe put some silos and cranes around Immingham docks as that's where I have worked in the past and also the approach into Humberside takes you over the docks. Thank you so much for creating stuff round here I thought it would be ages before we got anything, I was surprised to see the Humber Bridge in the last update to be fair 😀

3 years ago

Marinerhally

Excellent, thank you.

3 years ago

OrchidDZ

Hi Chris,

this is great, it really stands out and is ideal for vfr flying in the area.

Do you fancy having ago at Cleethorpes pier and the Belmont tv transmitter?

3 years ago

LincolnshirePoacher

Boy that was quick after my request for it, many thanks Chris

PS needs a red light at night 😊

3 years ago

Trainzman

This is very nice work. I look forward to your development of this interesting scenery. It's always nice to have a story to go with it so thank you for that. As a New Zealander I had no idea what this was. 😊

3 years ago

Goochie

Comments

Thx for all your updates. A lot of work

11 months ago

CaptainMoonlight

fantastic, it kinda bugged me that the dock tower wasnt there

2 years ago

Trev82usa

Great improvement, thanks Chris 😊

3 years ago

You're welcome Mate, I had both sides of the dock modelled earlier but being mostly empty concrete now, it looked terrible when getting close. Only the jetties remain for now. Main thing I spotted when testing Humberside was that the tower would pop up only when you were about to hit it. Should be visible from long range now. The low detail model only had six vertices, I think the sim thought it to be insignificant to render. No idea really, made it more complex and its visible now. Reverse LOD LOL

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

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Trainzman

Once again Excellent Chris, Please can you tidy up lindsey Oil Refinery if possible? as you know its a major Landmark Chimneys there and south ferriby cemex works near reeds island. Plus Humberside Terminal somebody ! .. No idea what they've done to that. Enjoy the Coffee Chris and many thanks for your great work buddy!
Haydn.

3 years ago

Hi Hayden. Thanks for the stars and the coffee!! Sorry for the late reply, been tied up with quite a big project (one included in your suggestions actually :) Should be done this weekend hopefully! All the best Chris

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

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HJD

Yes POI would be great any chance you could maybe put some silos and cranes around Immingham docks as that's where I have worked in the past and also the approach into Humberside takes you over the docks. Thank you so much for creating stuff round here I thought it would be ages before we got anything, I was surprised to see the Humber Bridge in the last update to be fair 😀

3 years ago

Marinerhally

Hi Chris, it's really great to see local landmarks being posted, pity Titans chimney was demolished, it was a great landmark/guidance piece also.
May I ask if EGNJ might be in the pipeline, it's not far from the bridge...

3 years ago

Hi Mate, Yes Humberside is in the pipeline, I wasn't able to get enough reference material until a breakthrough over the weekend. I usually fly into there when I'm testing, the new terminal is a bit of a shocker!. I'm on another EGN airfield at the moment to keep the north bank happy ;) That should be released this week some time.

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

rotorhead

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the comments and support. Just a quick question:

Do you want the Tower to have a POI marker?

I don't like them myself so I've been avoiding adding too many in the same location, but I'm not you.

Fly safe!

3 years ago

Yes it would be helpful, especially for those of us unfamiliar with the area.

3 years ago

Goochie

ChrisJSetterington

My hometown 😊 what a legend, thanks mate

3 years ago

Hi Marinehally Thanks for the comment and, you're welcome :D

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

Marinerhally

Excellent, thank you.

3 years ago

Hi OrchidDZ, Thanks for the comment and the stars. You're welcome!!

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

OrchidDZ

Hi Chris,

this is great, it really stands out and is ideal for vfr flying in the area.

Do you fancy having ago at Cleethorpes pier and the Belmont tv transmitter?

3 years ago

Hi Les, Thanks for the stars! I'm working on a small airfield at the moment in preparation for something much larger. Should be able to squeeze in the transmitter!

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

LincolnshirePoacher

Boy that was quick after my request for it, many thanks Chris

PS needs a red light at night 😊

3 years ago

Starting to get to grips with Blender. Red lights--- done Thanks for the stars!

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

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Trainzman

Great work, have you any plans on doing Cleethorpes pier?

3 years ago

Hi brummy, Thanks for the comment! I'm working on a small local airfield at the moment but the pier is a possibility in the future :)

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

brummy

This is very nice work. I look forward to your development of this interesting scenery. It's always nice to have a story to go with it so thank you for that. As a New Zealander I had no idea what this was. 😊

3 years ago

Hi Goochie You're welcome, thanks for the comment and the stars :)

3 years ago

ChrisJSetterington

Goochie

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