Revised 03 August 2006
TEESSHIPS
A FAVOURITE SHIP
DANBY CROSS
One of the better products of my dad's old bellows camera!
This was the new tug DANBY CROSS on 9 August 1961. How new? Well, years
later, John Proud's book SEAHORSES OF THE TEES told me she was completed at Faversham on 4 August 1961 - and she still had to sail up to the Tees!
If I remember rightly, the Ship Society was visiting the then new ORMESBY CROSS which enabled me to take this nice elevated view of the DANBY CROSS at the Tug Station on the Tees on 17 December 1967.
(added 30.07.06):
DANBY CROSS, River Tees, 18 May 1965 (Box Brownie effort!)
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And, she is still afloat at the age of 45 years as George Robinson was able to remind me recently through RIVERSEA INTERNATIONAL.
Details from Piet van Damme's database ...
DANBY CROSS
1961: Built by "J. Pollock Sons & Co" at Faversham (GBR) (YN 2123)
1961 -xx/08: delivered to "Tees Towing Co Ltd", mng "Wm. Crosthwaite & Son -
Cross Line Tugs" at Middlesbrough (GBR)
(GBR flag, regd Middlesbrough, ON 187319)
1975: To "Sleepdienst Willem Muller BV" at Terneuzen (NLD), renamed
FINLAND
(NLD flag, IVR 27.14429, c/s PEBT)
1976: rebuilt with closed wheelhouse
1984: taken over by "Bureau Wijsmuller" at Ijmuiden (NLD)
1991 -01/01: brought into "URS - Unie van Redding en Sleepdienst" at
Antwerpen (BEL)
1992 -24/03: To "F. Staal Handelsonderneming" at Zwijndrecht, resold
to "Sloopbedrijf Travis" at Haarlem (NLD)
1993: sold for breaking up
1994: resold to "Columbus Enkhuizen BV" at Amsterdam (NLD), renamed
COLUMBUS
1998: conversion to luxury party boat
2000: To "NPM Amsterdam BV" at Amsterdam (NLD), renamed OSTARA
2002: To "Spido BV" at Rotterdam (NLD)
2006: still in service
Photos George took show she looks in fine fettle, but nothing like she was originally!
03.08.06:
And I am extremely grateful to George for his permission to feature his views of
the OSTARA at Rotterdam in June 2006.
