Title
North Coates, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 16/06/1970. Creator: John Laing plc.
Caption
A view of the launch site of the North Coates pipeline, showing Laing Pipelines buoys in the foreground with the pipeline and lifting equipment in the background. 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. Over two miles of 36 inch diameter pipeline, encased in concrete, was pulled out to sea in the Humber Estuary on 16th June 1970.
Date
1970
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Reference
HRM21A84_425
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
78,1Mb (3,6Mb) / 17,3in x 17,5in / 5194 x 5253 (300dpi)