New 11 March 2006
TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS
OF BAD ROAD!
with
acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad
Road"
C3
COROMANDEL, Middlesbrough Dock, 25 August 1964
COROMANDEL, Middlesbrough Dock, 15 August 1966
(5080299) P&O Steam Nav. Co., London, 7065gt, completed by Barclay, Curle
& Co. Ltd., Whiteinch (Clyde), 10-1949. 1969 SHUN HING (British), 1973 HOP
SING (Somali Republic), 1973 broken up.
CORRIE BROERE, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 19 July 1966 (and
a decent view of the sheerlegs used to install engines in vessels built by
Furness at Haverton Hill just across the river)
(5080483) Netherlands, 500gt, completed Heusden 2-1953, ex Corrie B-60. 1972
ELPIDA III (Greece), 1976 MICHAIL (Greece), 1977 MEGALOHARI (Greece), 1982
broken up.
CRINAN, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 27 July 1964
(My first thought on looking at these prints for the first time in many years
was how did I get down to Eston Jetty - a more usual berth for ore carriers - in
those days before I had transport?!)
(5082106) Scottish Ore Carriers Ltd., Greenock, 7086gt, completed by C. Connell
& Co. Ltd., Glasgow, 4-1960. 1974 KLAR (Norway), 1976 LSCO TAWI-TAWI
(Philippines), 1980 PNOC TAWI-TAWI (Philippines), 1983 LAKE TAAL (Philippines),
...
CROSBIAN, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
(5082405) Mossgiel S.S. Co. Ltd., Glasgow, 1516gt, completed by Wm. Gray &
Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, 8-1947. 1967 MABUHAY (Philippines), 1980 broken up.
(Must admit I presumed from her name she would be owned by one of the Ellerman
companies but, no! Managers were John Bruce & Co. (Shipping) Ltd., so must
assume she had been built for Mossgiel but always on long-term charter to
Ellerman?)
CYPRIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 27 December 1962
(Now, it may well be that I had safely anchored myself around a convenient crane
leg, but I doubt it!! I can tell you I would not now stand right on the edge of
a snow-covered wooden wharf to get such a photo!!!)
CYPRIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 20 July 1964
Tyne-Tees S. Sg Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 494gt, completed by Hawthorn, Leslie &
Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 5-1936, ex Alnwick-46. 1968 broken up.