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The liability limits are governed by an International Convention and are based on the tonnage of the vessel. Until recently these limits (based on Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)) were very low. In historic cases, like the Severn Rail Bridge this lead to abandonment as the claimable cost was totally inadequate.
At the risk of dragging the thread off topic, fairly sure that the long since gone Solway Viaduct (railway bridge), once linking England and Southern Scotland, was badly damaged by ice floes / pack ice, this on more than one occasion. Mid 1870s/early 1880s era. The irresistible force and the immovable object, and all that?!
The sailing directions for this bridge say wait until the operator has raised it to full height.
I remember that, it had some kind of large digger on it and was racing towards the river underpass under Leeds station at speed, they shut all roads crossing the river through the city centre at one point because there was a fear if it passed Leeds station it would carry on through the city centre. I think it did eventually get stuck somewhere under the station.
It's right in the city centre lol, the river runs from where the city centre starts at Wellington Road bridge through to the Leeds Dock area via numerous bridges in between such as over Neville Street, Leeds Bridge itself and Crown Point Road, all of which are in the City Centre and were closed to traffic for a while. What a lot of folk don't know is the City Centre has expanded in recent times, what was part of Holbeck/Hunslet is now classed as the South Bank area of the City Centre, extending as far out as the Education zone on Hunslet Road.
Been under that bridge a few times in a yacht similar to the one in the picture. In the 13 years of sailing on the Broads and passing under Potter bridge at least 4 times each week we have never had a bridge pilot. The bridge is a godsend as it keeps the bigger boats away from the best part of the Northern Rivers.The old bridge at Potter Higham, whilst a road bridge, has such limited clearance that there should be a pilot available to take visitor's / hired boats through !
As the underside of the arch shows, not everybody gets it right.
bri[16] - fits under (just!) par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity
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[Image is of a small yacht, with the mast down, about to pass through a low arch - Potter Higham, Norfolk Broads]
I lived in Leeds for many years and never considered anything south of the station to be part of the city centre
Times have changed considerably nowadays, the whole area known as South Bank has been part of the city centre for a good part of 10 years, although to be honest because of Asda House, KPMG, Hilton etc I've always classed the area around Granary Wharfe up to Meadow Lane as part of the City Centre. Going off topic, but you'll be horrified I suspect to know there were plans to re-clasify the LS11 part of South Bank as LS1.1, and this would have included the South entrance of the train station, but for some strange reasons local locals (as in those living outside of South Bank) objected even though they wern't living there, I thought it was a radical modern idea myself.