New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 1
New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 1
All views taken in Middlesbrough Dock
JALAVISHNU - 25 April 1961
JALAVISHNU (5168390), India, 4584gt, completed Vizagapatam 5-1956. 1977 VISHNU
SAGAR (India), 1980 HUMERIA (United Arab Emirates), 1980 broken up.
CITY OF RIPON - 25 April 1961
CITY OF RIPON (5074056), Ellerman Lines Ltd., Glasgow, 7713gt, completed
Vickers-Armstrongs (S.Bs) Ltd., Walker (on Tyne), 3-1956. 1978 BENVANNOCH
(British), 1979 broken up.
and my notebook confirms that is the DONGOLA
astern
- see: FIRST
WEEK PHOTOS
NYANZA and SYCAMORE HILL - 8 July 1961
NYANZA (5259383), British India S.N. Co. Ltd., London, 8513gt, completed Scotts' S.B. & E. Co., Greenock, 11-1956. 1964 BALRANALD (British), 1968 NYANZA (British), 1974 ARYA GOL (Iran), 1977 broken up.
SYCAMORE HILL, Halifax Overseas Freighters Ltd. (Counties Ship Management Co. Ltd. - managers), London, 7126gt, completed Montreal 4-1944, ex Rondeau Park-50. 1966 broken up.
... and I don't think I could have moved backwards to get more of the SYCAMORE HILL in view because I have the feeling, these many years later, I had walked to the end of the quay arm to get the bow view of the NYANZA. Another step and I might have been swimming!
CITY OF POONA - 22 July 1961
CITY OF POONA (5074018), Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 9962gt, completed by
Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, 7-1946. 1968 BENARKLE
(British), 1974 broken up.
and, yes, I thought that was the old ESK
(link)
on the right;
and it is the SHAHRISTAN astern
SHAHRISTAN, Strick Line Ltd., London, 7310gt, completed by J. Readhead &
Sons Ltd., South Shields, 4-1945. 1962 broken up.
PEDRO DE VALDIVIA - 22 July 1961
PEDRO DE VALDIVIA (5272749), Spain, 4792gt, completed Cartagena 7-1957. 1964
CABO SANTA MARTA (Spain), 1979 CEFALLONIAN WAVE (?), 1979 MINOTAURUS (Greece), (from
Miramar) BU Gadani Beach 21.4.84
Just shows how easy it is to be confused,
many years later, by whatever one had written down at the time. My original
detailed record entry, extracting details from the then current Lloyd's
Register, renders the name correctly as PEDRO DE VALDIVIA, yet my original
notebook written down either as I was viewing the ship, or shortly afterwards
(some of my first notebook entries were copied over somewhat later than the
actual event from a smaller notepad!) rendered her as .. VALDIVA, both in my
list of sightings and separate listing of photographs at the back of the book.
When I first found the contact print last week I had scanned it under the name I
had written on the back of DIAZ DE SOLIS. Understandable to some extent as they
were exact sisterships (and this is another print I have been looking for for
quite a while in order to show). Now I look back in my records the DIAZ DE SOLIS
was seen in Middlesbrough Dock on 15 July 1961, the PEDRO being first seen, as
stated above, a week later on the 22nd. As far as I know these were one-off
visits by these two ships.
I can definitely say for this shot that I could not get in the whole ship
without walking on water!!!
For information, the shorter career of
the DIAZ DE SOLIS is given at: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/128635?page=1&shipname=&search_op=OR&number=&IDNo=5508975
wherein her IMO/LR identity no. seems to be wrongly given as 5508975 instead of
5089752.
CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH - 29 July 1961
CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH (5074020), Ellerman Lines Ltd., London, 13363gt,
completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 12-1952. 1971 MEDITERRANEAN
ISLAND (Greece), 1975 MEDITERRANEAN SUN (Greece), 1980 broken up.
The first of a distinguished class of four ships she and her sisters (DURBAN, EXETER and YORK) were about the largest vessels able to enter Middlesbrough Dock. A few years later they inaugurated a very short-lived passenger service from the port.