New 03 February 2005
TEESSHIPS
40 YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

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ACCRA, Liverpool Landing Stage, River Mersey, 13 September 1965
Elder Dempster Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 11644gt, completed 9-1947 by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow. 1967 broken up.

ACKLAM CROSS, Middlesbrough Dock, 2 October 1962
(yes, my one and only underway view of her spoiled by film development problems which I tried in the darkroom at school.)

ACKLAM CROSS, Tees Towing Tug Base, 9 March 1964
Tees Towing Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 150gt, completed 9-1933 by Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd., Aberdeen, diesel-electric propulsion. 1964 (Malta - the bottom two photos show her in the colours of her new owners), 1965 FOX TERRIER (Malta, British), foundered 2-1969.

ADVENTURER, Middlesbrough Dock, 28 August 1964

ADVENTURER, Middlesbrough Dock, 31 August 1964
(5003576) Charente S.S. Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 8971gt, completed 2-1960 by Wm. Doxford & Sons (SB) Ltd., Sunderland. 1979 ELEFTHERIA (Greece), 1985 broken up.

AGAPENOR, Birkenhead, 10 September 1965
(5004532) China Mutual Steam Nav. Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 7654gt, built 1947 by Scotts' S.B. & Eng. Co., Greenock. Detained in Bitter Lakes, Suez Canal from 6-1967, 1975 NIKOS (Greece), 1981 broken up.

ALBANY, Middlesbrough Dock, 12 October 1962
(another one from that spoilt film!)
(5008215) Royal Mail Lines Ltd., London, 7299gt, completed 2-1957 by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Glasgow. 1971 TAIWAN (Liberia), 1975 LIDO (Singapore), 1979 broken up.