Last revised 26 March 2005
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TEESSHIPS
A FAVOURITE
SHIP
NORTHUMBRIAN
COAST
Before George takes his gloves off and demands I do something about it, here is the late Albert Weller's lovely shot of the NORTHUMBRIAN COAST sailing from the Tees after one of her regular calls.
My own memories of the ship are fairly limited from seeing her a few times before she was scrapped. One thing I do remember is that she had a lovely wooden front to her bridge. One day, in those days when you could walk along the dockside without safety helmet, etc., etc., and nobody usually took any notice of you, I was watching a sling of steel being loaded into her hold. During the process it clattered into, and dented, that bridge front and I thought "what a shame"! I'm sure that had nothing at all with her demise some little time later.
However, one person who knew the ship well is Jim Layton of the Teesside Branch of the World Ship Society, and from his long-running series of articles on SHIPS OF THE TEES featured in the Branch journal TEES PACKET, issue no. 86 of February 1986, he details the career of the NORTHUMBRIAN COAST, originally THORNABY, as part of the following story.
26.03.05: Thanks to Riversea International and the collection of Richard Cox for this nice view of the THORNABY.
