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

B5

BISON, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
(5045328) Coast Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 2144gt, completed 1-1962 by C. Hill & Sons Ltd., Bristol. 1971 NORBANK (British), 1979 FLAMINGO (Surinam), ....

BISON, River Tees, 19 July 1966
The Netherlands, 618gt, completed 6-1940 by Blyth D.D. & S.B. Co. Ltd., Blyth. 1969 broken up.

BLINK, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 4 March 1965
(5046463) Norway, 499gt, built Lubeck 1957. 1969 SIRABUEN (Norway), 1970 NORMANNVIK (Norway), 1973 ARNE VIK (Norway), 1973 (New Hebrides), 1974 TROPIC VENTURE (-), 1975 BATIK (Indonesia), ....

BONIFACE, Liverpool, 5 September 1965
(5401792) Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., Liverpool (according to the then current Register!) but clearly bearing a normal Booth Line name and colours, 4693gt, completed 9-1956 by Wm. Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, ex Rossetti-63. 1967 ROSSETTI (British), 1970 BONIFACE (British), 1973 AMARYLIS (Greece), 1978 ZEFYROS (Greece), 1979 broken up.

BONN, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 31 March 1963

BONN, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 23 August 1965
(5048083), Norway, 298gt, built El Ferrol 1962. 1968 GARDEGG (Norway), 1971 FONNLAND (Norway), ....

BOOKER VANGUARD, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
(5419098) Booker Line Ltd., Liverpool, completed 12-1963 by Burntisland S.B. Co. Ltd., Burntisland. 1979 KATY (Greece), 1981 FRANKY (Greece), ....

BRAMBER, Hartlepool Docks, 21 January 1965
(5050232) Stephenson Clarke Ltd., Newcastle, 1968gt, completed 6-1954 by S.P. Austin & Son Ltd., Sunderland, ex Greenbatt-60. 1968 MALDIVE SAILOR (Maldives), 1974 broken up.

BRANDARIS, Middlesbrough Dock, 28 December 1965
The Netherlands, 473gt, built Martenshoek 1955. 1965 (West Germany), foundered April 1968.
(Just shows about personal records from so long ago! I would get her as Dutch from the Register of the time but then picked up from the 1964/5 supplements that she had been reflagged. If my guess at the date is correct, then she would already be German by the time I saw her at the end of 1965!)