In Camera ... HMS Liverpool passes Crosby for the last time

HMS Liverpool sailed out of a blustery Mersey just after noon on Monday 5th March after her final visit to Liverpool before being decommissioned. The wide stretch of wind torn beach at Crosby sparkled in the sunlight and the iron men seemed to straighten and stand to attention as the vessel passed by with only a handful of watchers to witness this moment of history.

In Camera ... HMS Liverpool and the Liverpool Waterfront

HMS Liverpool sailed into the Mersey for the last time this week before being decommissioned. I took the opportunity of the recent spell of good weather to capture this new waterfront image with HMS Liverpool moored at the liner terminal.

In Camera ... HMS Liverpool

At 08.30 this morning HMS Liverpool, a Type 42 Destroyer, sailed past the iron men on her way into Liverpool for a four day visit to the city, her first for three years. It was a quiet, calm morning at the beach, tide on the way out and not much wind. The crew were lined up on the deck of the ship, I can imagine them standing to attention just as the iron men appear to be doing in the image above.

The sun was just catching the distant Welsh Hills, the lower slopes wreathed in cloud rising from the Conway valley as HMS Liverpool moved swiftly on up the Mersey towards her mooring at the cruise liner terminal.