New 20 May 2006
TEESSHIPS
FAVOURITE SHIPS
Some of my oldies!
being simply a selection from my older photos which I still like to look at
even these 40 odd years later!
No particular order and, perhaps, nothing particularly special about the ships concerned - except that they form part of my shipping memories! Many have been shown previously on TEESSHIPS.
No doubt, these will be added to as I rediscover various old photos.
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ASMARA - simply had to make this page being a sistership of my no. 1 ship AYUTHIA
Middlesbrough Dock, 29 August 1962
ASMARA, A/S Det Ostasiatiske Kompagni, Denmark, 10094gt, completed Nakskov 10-1961. 1978 Man Fung, Panama, 1980 Aspasia M, Greece, 1985 broken up.
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This is probably my favourite shot with my very first camera! The NURMAHAL trashes her way into Middlesbrough Dock on 8 June 1961.
NURMAHAL, Asiatic Steam Nav. Co. Ltd., London; 8628gt, completed Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow, 6-1959. 1965 owners became British India Steam Nav. Co. Ltd., 1966 managed by Hain-Nourse Ltd., 1972 ownership transferred to P&O Steam Nav. Co., 1975 STRATHNEWTON (British), 1977 broken up.
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.... with this one not far behind! The CLAN FORBES being pulled about by the BEAMISH on the Tyne on 26 May 1961.
CLAN FORBES, The Clan Line Steamers Ltd, Glasgow, 9242gt, completed Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend 6-1961. 1968 ARYA MAN (Iran), 1980 IRAN HEMMAT (Iran), ....
BEAMISH, France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 242gt, completed J.S. Watson (Gainsboro') Ltd., Gainsboro' 9-1944, ex Queensgarth-49, ex Empire Paul-46. 1973 THUNDER CAPE (Canada), ? broken up.
Some sources show her first transferring to Canada in 1970 as the REX MELLENGER, reverting to her old name BEAMISH that same year before becoming THUNDER CAPE in 1973.
I know she has since been scrapped and while trying to find details I chanced upon a nice tug site at: http://website.lineone.net/~d.ord/Tugs%20and%20Ships.htm
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A year into my hobby, the PERNILLE MAERSK in the Dock Cut on 18 November 1961, having just sailed from Middlesbrough Dock.
PERNILLE MAERSK, tanker, A/S D/S Svendborg & D/S af 1912 A/S (or easier to say managed by A.P. Moller!) Copenhagen, Denmark, 8456gt, completed Temse 3-1954. 1969 BYRON (Cyprus); Broken up at San Estaban de Prava, arrived 15/3/1975.
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And, oh, I love this one! CLEADON - Sunderland, 8 January 1962. The only photo I took on a day I toured Hartlepool, Sunderland, and Middlesbrough Dock and saw 71 ships!!!!
CLEADON, France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co. Ltd., Newcastle, built J. Jones & Sons, Liverpool, 1899, ex Toxteth. 1968 broken up.
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And I've always liked this vies of the LAKE PENNASK - Middlesbrough Dock, 25 September 1962.
LAKE PENNASK, Western Canada S.S. Co. Ltd., Glasgow, 7829gt, completed Sunderland 6-1953, ex Jersey Spray-56. 1963 Jag Rakshak, India, 1965 Dimitrakis, Greece, 1973 Kim, Somali Republic, 1975 Lita, Singapore, 1977 Lita I, Panama, 1979 Rita I, Panama, 1983 broken up.
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Ditto for this view of the THEODORE LAURENT in Middlesbrough Dock on 17 March 1964.
THEODORE LAURENT: Cie. des Atel & Forges de la Loire, France, 4145gt, completed Blainville 1953. 1965 EIRA (Finland) stranded and sank December 1969. Listed as an ore carrier.
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These just for starters!