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.
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Chris [ AKA CAPT 5L0W ]
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CaptainMoonlight
Thx for all your updates. A lot of work
Trev82usa
fantastic, it kinda bugged me that the dock tower wasnt there
Trainzman
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
HJD
Haydn.
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
Marinerhally
rotorhead
May I ask if EGNJ might be in the pipeline, it's not far from the bridge...
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
ChrisJSetterington
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!
Goochie
3 years ago
Marinerhally
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
OrchidDZ
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
LincolnshirePoacher
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?
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
Trainzman
PS needs a red light at night 😊
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
brummy
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago
Goochie
ChrisJSetterington author
3 years ago