Location updated in light of superior local knowledge.
:-) John

The laast time I parked it there I reported in as Denton Samall Ships Mooring. If anyone has a good Hi Res photo I would appreciate a copy.

The official Higham Buoy – the one marked as such on the navigational charts - is the red, port-hand, channel-marker buoy in Higham Bight, further downriver from this position. It is opposite the green, Ovens buoy.
The Targe tugs are mooring to a recently-installed mooring buoy in the area hitherto known as Denton Small Ships Mooring.
I do not know what the official name (if any) of this new mooring buoy is but I am pretty sure it is not Higham Buoy!

I think you will find it is known as "Higham Buoy" and is used by the Smit Ahoada and the Targe tugs, it is just a little downriver from the Denton moorings used by the Svitzer tugs.

Regards
Ken

Very nice John, I hope to catch this one before she disappears but can't find any time just lately :-(

Regards

Bob

Its actually Denton small ships mooring.

John:
If you, the Essex Boy, can't tell the difference between Denton and Higham, there's fat chance a Dutch tuggie can - or, even less, cares!
I believe this part of the river is known as Denton Small Ship Moorings; below that is Shornemead, with the old fort and navigation light of that name. The original lighthouse was 100 yards or so further downriver and was also known as Parson's light, after a pilot who wrecked a ship there and caused the light to be installed in the first place.
Then you get into Higham Bight, the 'bay' on the outside of the bend from Gravesend Reach into the Lower Hope.
They reckon that if you fall into the river at Tower Wharf, Northfleet or Tilbury lock entrance on an ebb tide, your body will fetch up in Higham Bight. In the meantime there is an old Baltic ketch (HANS EGEDE) and a lump of Mulberry harbour washed up there for your corpse to get tangled up in.
Here endeth today's geography lesson.
Cheers
Bob.

By the way, many years ago, that bit of Essex in the background of your pic used to be part of the parish of Chalk, Kent (where I am) but, just as the French eventually regained Calais from the English, so too did Essex man get his little bit of land back. If you ask me , he is welcome to it!
Bob

Bob,
Denton, Higham, its all foreign to me..... I'm from North of the river! I just heard the VHF radio talk from the tug saying that they were returning to their buoy at Higham.
And yes, I made the effort (and £1.50 each way Dartford toll crossing) to get down there and catch her in the cold so stop your nit-picking or I'll come over and mis-name other Kentish locations. Its my right as an Essex man :-))
Cheers
John

My apologies,will pop back into hibernation.
Doug.

No, she's on a buoy just below the old Sea School!

Don't wish to cause upset on my first post,but isn't she in
the Higham Bight anchorage.
Cheers
Doug.

John,
Sorry if I seem nit-picking but the correct name of the location here is not Higham but Denton.
I can see this tug on that buoy from home - even as I type this!
For weeks I have been meaning to walk down to the riverbank and photograph it but it would seem that, in my old age, I am becoming a fairweather shipspotter!
Cheers
Bob