Reintroduced 07 July 2007 (07.07.07)
TEESSHIPS
A BIT MORE WELLER
MELLO
(Mello Weller remind anyone of
anything??!)
This lovely old ship featured quite some time ago but for some reason I showed only one of the two views in Albert's album. Here is the other one! She still looks a lovely ship from this angle!
Miramar entry: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/show/51282?page=1&shipname=hebburn&IDNo=&search_op=OR&number=
Seeing she was completed for Huddart Parker, London, made
me look up what seemed to be in my memory as a fairly famous historical
(Australian) shipowning company.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddart_Parker
I'm making the assumption these owners were one and the same?
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THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL PAGE!
New entry 6 December 2000; revised 10.12.00
TEES-SHIPS |
A WELLER SHOWCASE
MELLO
MELLO - on the Tyne, I think.
Soc. Geral de Comercio Industria e Transportes, Portugal, 4372gt, completed at Blyth 4-1915, ex Graziella, ex Hebburn.
What a lovely ship, one which reached the veteran stage in the early 60s, and which, sadly, it must be assumed would not survive for much longer after this photo was taken. North-east built as well and with an original name like HEBBURN, presumably Tyneside owned. I never saw her myself, but someone out there will have?
And along comes George, the Marine News indexman, to point me in the right direction - to the issue of Marine News for January 1965. The MELLO went aground at the entrance to the River Mellah (some slight irony there?) on 27 November 1964, while on passage between Lisbon and Casablanca, and became a total loss. So she survived fully 49 and a half years.