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Park Drive, LONDON, E14 9GD

Looking south-southwest.

Seen three years earlier Image The signature tower is the 673-foot 57-storey One Park Drive by Herzog & de Meuron.

Looking south-southeast.

Challenge Wales was launched as one of 12 identical yachts to compete in the world's toughest yacht race, the round-the-world Global Challenge. After taking part in four of the races, she became a training vessel in 2009. In 2012 Challenge Wales was invited to be part of the Queen's Jubilee Thames Pageant, and young people from across Wales were able to sail her up the Thames as part of a special Jubilee voyage. Dasher is a Nicholson 55 boat operated by the Joint Services Adventurous Sail Training Centre in Gosport, which organises sail training expeditions to help members of the Armed Forces to develop character and leadership skills. Emerald Star was launched in 2002 and is one of the smallest ships participating in Tall Ships Festival 2014, with only nine trainees and one permanent crew member. Entered by the China Sail Training Association, this ship plans to find its crew from Chinese students at the University of Plymouth.

Rupel was intended for a social purpose and was built over a five-year period on the banks of the river Rupel in Belgium by unemployed young people. The project to build the schooner provided them with skills that would help them find jobs more easily. She is now used extensively in work with vulnerable people and as to rehabilitate young people who have become involved in crime. In the summer, Rupel sails the Belgian coastline and takes part in the Tall Ships Races and other events in northern Europe.

Amelie Rose was built by Luke Powell in Gweek, Cornwall and is modelled on an early-1800s pilot cutter from the Scillies. Based in north Dorset, she was launched by two people who quit their IT jobs here in London to reconnect people with Britain's maritime heritage and history. She was recently featured in the ITV series The Hungry Sailors.

Looking south-southeast.

A closer view of the work seen in Image The structures at the top are probably slipform rigs. Slip forming involves continuous pouring of concrete as the rig ascends.

Royalist is operated by the Marine Society and Sea Cadets charity, a national youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Navy. Launched by Princess Anne in 1971, she has taken more than 30,000 cadets to sea over the years. The Royalist has unfortunately become too expensive for the Marine Society and Sea Cadets to maintain, so it is coming to the end of its career and will be replaced with a new vessel.