| Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier and Flagship HMS Illustrious made a five day visit to the city of Liverpool in October 2009, and was moored up at the passenger liner terminal at Pier Head near the front of the Liver Building, and in this collection you will find a number of shots that were taken during my visit there on Friday the 23rd of October.
This was the second day of the ship's visit, and was chosen because of the flying display which was scheduled for that day, and this involved around 40 aircraft and helicopters flying the length of the Mersey between the city of Liverpool and Birkenhead. The ship was not open to the public that day, but a number of shots were taken from Birkenhead, at close by at Pier Head, and also from the deck of the Mersey Ferry 'Royal Daffodil', which had just been involved in a near miss with a large tanker just a little while earlier. Well it was an exciting and interesting day in more ways than one that is for sure! 
Images from the main flying display, and another display over the Albert Dock by the Royal Navy 'Black Cats' helicopter display team, will appear in my Aviation Gallery, where they will fit in better, that is with the exception of a short 'rescue' display which involved acrewman being winched from a Sea King onto the deck of a Lifeboat, I thought that would be better left in this gallery. A great display from the Royal Navy, which I could have gone on all five days and also got the arrival and departure, hopefully it won't be long before another large Navy ship visits the port. As per usual, I travelled there with 'ConwyCastle', and you can find links to his videos of the day at the collection links below. |
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