Barnacle Gallery

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, at Southampton

Reaching Southampton the Queen Mary docked in an enormous King George V graving drydock, ready for its maiden voyage to New York in May 1936. Within thirty minutes of her stem entering the dock she was moored fast, the last 200 feet of her journey was done by man power, engines switched off, twenty men hauled her into position by ropes with 8ft 6 inches to spare on either side of her. The same night, 58, 000, 000 gallons of water was being pumped out of the dock, hundreds of workmen with brooms cleaned and scraped the hull, removing barnacles and covering below the water-line with anti-fouling composition. Date: March 1936

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Illustration of animals living on the shore beneath beach surface, channelled wrack, rough periwinkle, acorn barnacle, bladder wrack, beadlet anemone, oarweed, sea squirt, scarlet starfish

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USA. Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) prys a barnacle from an intertidal

USA. Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) pries a barnacle from an intertidal rock on a saltwater bay in Washington State

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