Towlines

01 May 2002

Tugs from Adsteam Towage (London) Ltd and towmaster Capt Eric Johnson from United Salvage Ltd safely delivered the 106 suite floating hotel Sunborn to its berth alongside the Excel Events Centre in London's Royal Docks in mid-April. The liner-like engineless vessel was towed though the locks and cuttings of the enclosed docks system in the early hours of the morning to avoid disruption of traffic at London Docklands Airport. To access the vessels berth in the old Victoria Dock it was necessary to pass through a narrow cutting at the end of the runway. Sunborn was constructed in Finland and towed to the Thames estuary by tugs of Transport and Service of Bremerhaven.