New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 2
New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 2
All views taken in Middlesbrough Dock
CITY OF CARLISLE and PINJARRA (link) - 1 August 1961
CITY OF CARLISLE (5424330), Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co. Ltd., London, 9913gt, completed Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead, 2-1946. 1963 JEANNIE (Nationalist China), 1969 broken up.
PINJARRA (5154129), P&O Steam Nav. Co., London, 9888gt, completed by Sir J. Laing & Son Ltd., Sunderland, 8-1944, ex Empire Paragon-46. 1962 HONGKONG IMPORTER (British), 1970 broken up.
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireP.html (Empire Paragon)
As you will see I have said on my main page about the PINJARRA (link above) ... :
An early success in ship recognition: It must have been the summer holidays of 1961, a glorious sunny day on Redcar beach (remember them, George?). Busy building sandcastles with my younger siblings (there were three of them!) when shining brightly in the sunlight along came a ship heading north to enter the Tees. Although she would be a few miles off I said to myself - that's the PINJARRA. She really was so distinctive as, in a way, were her P&O colours.
That talent (?!) then faded rapidly!!!!!
.... I can't help thinking this photo (during school summer holidays) would be taken during that same visit!
SUMBAWA - 15 August 1961
SUMBAWA (5343756), Denmark, 8830gt, completed Nakskov 3-1954. 1972 ZUIDER SEA
(Somali Republic), 1983 broken up.
Obscured behind her is Brocklebank's MATRA (5229194)
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/8937?page=1&shipname=&search_op=OR&number=&IDNo=5229194
SIBONGA - 16 September 1961
SIBONGA (5326813), Denmark, 8695gt, completed Nakskov 7-1953. 1975 ILEOLUJI
(Nigeria), 1979 broken up.
The P&O ship COROMANDEL (5080299) astern
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/8807?search_op=OR&page=1&shipname=&number=&IDNo=5080299
Yes, the third East Asiatic (A/S Det Ostasiatiske Kompagni) ship in a row on this page!
PASADENA - 23 September 1961
PASADENA (5271082), Denmark, 8607gt, completed Hamburg 3-1953. 1972 TUNGKU CHAU
(Liberia), 1979 broken up.
DELPHIC - 26 September 1961
DELPHIC (5088265), Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd., Southampton, 10691gt,
completed Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 11-1949. 1971 broken up.
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/8814?page=1&shipname=&search_op=OR&number=&IDNo=5088265
INDIAN RELIANCE - 26 September 1961
INDIAN RELIANCE (5160336), India, 7422gt, completed Hamburg 1-1955. 1979 broken
up.
I think these last two views were dusk ones! I did take a bow shot of the DELPHIC but my notebook shows it came out too faint to print! The lack of sharpness of the INDIAN RELIANCE also suggests I was on the lowest setting for that camera! The view I do show of the DELPHIC has been brightened (lightened) considerably from the original very dark print!