New 01 March 2005
TEESSHIPS
40 YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

B3

Ben Liners

BENALBANACH, Hartlepool, 21 January 1965
(5040689) E.G. Thomson (Shipping) Ltd., Leith, 7795gt, completed 6-1946 by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, ex Empire Athelstan-47. 1966 CAMELOT (British), 1969 DRAGON CASTLE (Panama), 1975 broken up.

BENAVON, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 19 August 1965
(5040768) The Ben Line Steamers Ltd., Leith, 8079gt, completed 3-1949 by J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland. 1970 LIZIANA (Panama), 1971 broken up.

BENHOPE, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 14 September 1964
(5041047) E.G. Thomson (Shipping) Ltd., Leith, 9952gt, completed 5-1945 by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow, ex Egidia-62. 1972 broken up.

BENLAWERS, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 29 September 1964
Ben Line Steamers, Leith, 7804gt, completed 6-1944 by C. Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1968 broken up.

BENMACDHUI, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 15 June 1965
(5041449) The Ben Line Steamers, Leith, 7847gt, completed 2-1948 by C. Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1972 broken up.

BENNEVIS, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 27 July 1964
(5041487) The Ben Line Steamers Ltd., Leith, 7951gt, built Tacoma 1944 (as PUNCHER), converted 1948, ex Bardic-59, ex Muncaster Castle-54. 1973 broken up.
(Puzzling over who that is hiding bottom left? Think it looks like my youngest brother, Colin. If so, must have been just about his first time in long trousers - a few days before his 12th birthday!!)

BENREOCH, Middlesbrough Dock, 19 August 1965
(5041530) The Ben Line Steamers Ltd., Leith, 10142gt, completed 10-1952 by C. Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1976 TUDIS (Greece), 1979 broken up.

BENVORLICH, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 28 December 1965
(5041712) The Ben Line Steamers, Leith, 9768gt, completed 3-1946 by C. Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1970 KAVO AKRITAS (Greece), 1973 broken up.