Title
North Coates, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 16/06/1970. Creator: John Laing plc.
Caption
A view of the launch of the North Coates pipeline, showing lifting equipment in the foreground. The civil engineering work on the North Coates oil pipeline was carried out by Laing Pipelines along with French companies Entrepose and GTM, and the main contractor for the dredging work was Dredging and Construction Company along with Adriaan Volker of Rotterdam. The launch of the pipeline took place at 12.30 on 16th June 1970 and took 3hrs to complete. At this time, it was the largest sea pipeline to be placed off the British coast.
Date
1970
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Reference
HRM21A84_420
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
75,5Mb (3,0Mb) / 17,0in x 17,2in / 5112 x 5159 (300dpi)