New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 3
New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 3
NOVIAN COAST - River Tees off
Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves - 7 October 1961
NOVIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees S.S. Co. Ltd., Sunderland, 507gt, completed by Smith's
Dock Co., Middlesbrough, 5-1936, ex Wooler-46. 1968 broken up.
I suppose that when I first saw her some months earlier she was ship sighting no. 100 this locally well-known vessel should have greater prominence in my nostalgic references!
CITY OF YORK - Middlesbrough Dock - 21
October 1961
CITY OF YORK (5074226), Ellerman Lines Ltd., London, 13345gt, completed by
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 10-1953. 1971 MEDITERRANEAN SKY (Greece),
[from Miramar] deleted 2002
see also: FIRST WEEK PHOTOS
with the TEES FLOATING CRANE alongside
(Using my original record book to extract the above details. With her being ship sighting no. 5 that first page has become extremely dog-eared across 46 years! A case of reading between the gaps!!)
Breaking the theme of these pages the CITY OF YORK was transformed to this:
and, sadly, to this:
(Previously shown on TEESSHIPS)
Grateful thanks to Francois Brose who found these last two views on:
http://www.faktaomfartyg.crosswinds.net (this link no longer active,
unfortunately)
Capsized before 2002, then broken up?
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52 weeks to the day since recording my first ship sighting
CITY OF OTTAWA - Middlesbrough Dock - 18
November 1961
CITY OF OTTAWA (5073973), Ellerman Lines Ltd.,
Liverpool, 7622gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 8-1950. 1971
CITY OF LEEDS (British), 1975 GULF VENTURE (British), 1977 broken up.
Astern is the Sunderland-built STAMOS (5337965)
LANCASTRIAN PRINCE - Middlesbrough Dock - 18
November 1961
LANCASTRIAN PRINCE (5203009), Prince Line Ltd., London, 4800gt, completed
Burntisland S.B. Co. Ltd., Burntisland, 9-1960. 1971 TAMARA (Greece), 1980 AMAR
(Greece), 1982 AMAR I (Panama), 1983 broken up.