New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 4
New 10 June 2007
TEESSHIPS
IN THE BEGINNING!
Part 4
DALESMAN - Middlesbrough Dock - 20 January
1962
DALESMAN (5085421) Charente S.S. Co. Ltd., (T. & J. Harrison Ltd. -
managers), Liverpool, 7200gt, completed Amsterdam 11-1961. 1979 ADRIANOS
(Greece), 1980 IOANNIS (Greece), [from Miramar] BU
Huangpu 14.4.84
MASIRAH - Middlesbrough Dock - 3 February
1962
MASIRAH (5228176), Thos & Jno Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, 8733gt, completed
Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow, 2-1957. 1972 EURYSTHENES (Greece),
damaged by stranding 4-1974, 1974 broken up.
One I have been looking to find for a long time in order to show!
CANNONBURY - Middlesbrough Dock - 10
February 1962
CANNONBURY (5199985), Lebanon, 2896gt, completed Caledon S.B. & E. Co. Ltd.,
Dundee, 6-1943, ex Wingrove-61, ex Moyle-60, ex Iceland-56. 1962 KYRIAKATSI
(Lebanon), 1966 EFSTATHIOS (Lebanon), in port damaged 9-1978, 1979 broken up.
CITY OF WORCESTER - Middlesbrough Dock - 13
April 1962
CITY OF WORCESTER (5074214), Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 7149gt, completed
Caledon S.B. & E. Co. Ltd., Dundee, 9-1960. 1979 MARIA DIAMANTO (Greece),
1982 CAPE GRECO (Cyprus), damaged by stranding 11-1982, 1983 broken up.
IBERIAN COAST - River Tees off
Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves - 27 July 1962
IBERIAN COAST (5157810), Tyne-Tees S.S. Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 1188gt, completed
by G. Brown & Co. (Marine) Ltd., Greenock, 6-1950, launched as Sandringham
Queen. 1966 PUPI (Italy), 1976 AGIOS NICOLAOS (Greece), burnt and sank 8-1978.
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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
After recording the IBERIAN COAST I recorded one more
ship photograph that day to finish off a film (8 negatives to a 120 film) and
... (as I have said previously!):
An event which changed history. Not quite, but one which had some significance to me. On 27 July 1962 I was still using a very old camera of my dad's to take my ship photographs. Very much on spec I happened to be near the Transporter Bridge when the VOLUTA, presumably starting her delivery voyage, passed by. This was the result:
I had known for the 15 months I had been using it that the camera had various shortcomings. However, there on the left was a little bit of the MALATYA in complete darkness; the lovely veteran Tees tug ACKLAM CROSS as the head tug was reasonably sharp (on the original 9x6 cm contact print), but in the middle some detail of the VOLUTA was, to say the least, fuzzy!
I had come upon the subject matter quite fortuitously; but the result was a disappointment. It was seeing this picture that determined me to "persuade" my parents that a new camera was essential! 16 years old, no job, only so-so "O" level results (when they were announced about a month later!). I don't know how I did it, but a week or so later I was the proud owner of a new camera. OK, it was just a Kodak box camera, but as I have shown you several times, the results were a vast improvement on the old ones! Real modernity, in the shape of a 35mm camera was not to come until I came of age at 21 years in 1966.
An event which changed history? No, but it helped shape the history of the development of my shipping interest.
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