New 17 February 2009
TEESSHIPS
WELLER POSITIVES
ALEXANDRA
Albert took two distant views of a vessel in Tees Bay, possibly during one of his trips out on a pilot cutter. This was the result:
A bit of work with the scanner and we can enlarge both images fairly successfully.
Yes, he must have been on another cutter because we are looking inwards towards the mouth of the River Tees!
ALEXANDRA, DFDS, Denmark, 1463gt, completed Elsinore 2-1931. Stranded off Tripoli 21.2.65 & bu Split 8.65. (details from Miramar)
Oh, yes, I did see her! At Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves on 23.03.61.