Lord of the Highlands arrived in London during May 2004, and took up residence in the Upper Pool at Tower Pier. My handbag camera, a Minolta Vectis 20 APS compact, was used to record her when I first saw her, but I've got a few 35mm pictures of her as well. All of the ones on this page are from the APS compact camera, though. Interesting point: is a ship called Lord of the Highlands still a "her"?
These pictures were scanned using the CanoScan FS2710 film scanner.
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I first saw Lord of the Highlands on the same evening as I saw Chamar. I had walked across Tower Bridge that evening on my way to London Bridge Station, and found those two vessels so interesting that I ended up two trains later than my original commuting intention for the evening!
On the evening when I first saw Seacloud II, while I was at Butlers Wharf photographing her, Lord of the Highlands disappeared from her mooring at Tower Pier. I was pretty sure that I would have noticed her going by if she'd sailed downriver, so I stood and waited, and with diesel motors throbbing, and loud music playing for the people on her top deck, she emerged from behind HMS Belfast.
She sailed by her regular mooring spot on Tower Pier. You can see Tower 42 and the Swiss Re building ("The Gherkin") in the background. She kept going and sailed past the Tower of London next.
