New 11 March 2006
TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

City 2

CITY OF EASTBOURNE, Middlesbrough Dock, 23 August 1962
(5073662) Ellerman Lines Ltd., London, 10300gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 3-1962. 1971 CITY OF TORONTO (British), 1978 KOTA CANTIK (Singapore), ...

CITY OF EXETER, Middlesbrough Dock, 9 March 1964

CITY OF EXETER, Middlesbrough Dock, 7 October 1964
(5073686) Ellerman Lines Ltd., London, 13345gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 4-1953. 1971 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Greece), ...

CITY OF KHARTOUM, Middlesbrough Dock, 29 July 1964
(The first view is noted as being from the deck of the CLAN FORBES but under what circumstances I had been invited on board I now simply have no idea!!)
(5073791) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 9955gt, completed by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, 1-1946. 1968 BENALLIGIN (British), 1972 broken up.

CITY OF LEEDS, Middlesbrough Dock, 2 October 1964
(and I just had to dig out my old notebook to remember that the ship in the background is the VIBRAN NJORD)
(5377989) Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 3578gt, completed by J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, 8-1947, ex Venetian-64 1965 CATERINA P (Greece), 1966 TRANSRODOPI III (Greece), 1968 ACRUX (Bulgaria), 1975 broken up.

CITY OF LIVERPOOL, Middlesbrough Dock, 26 February 1963
(5073844) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 7612gt, completed by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead, 5-1949. 1967 KAVO GROSSOS (Greece), 1973 broken up.