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

City 3

CITY OF NEWCASTLE, Middlesbrough Dock, 29 July 1964
(5073935) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 7727gt, completed by A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow, 4-1956. 1968 BENRATHA (British), 1971 CITY OF NEWCASTLE (British), 1978 EASTERN ENVOY (Singapore), 1980 broken up.

CITY OF NORWICH, Middlesbrough Dock, 2 October 1962
(5073959) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 3910gt, completed by Wm Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, 9-1950, ex Maltasian-62. 1964 MALTASIAN (British), 1966 CAPETAN CHRISTOS P (Panama), 1974 AIAS (Greece), 1974 broken up.

CITY OF PETERBOROUGH, Middlesbrough Dock, 27 February 1964
(5410717) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 3803gt, completed by A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow, 7-1955, ex Castilian-63. 1964 CASTILIAN (British), 1966 ARABIA (British), 1966 CASTILIAN (British), 1971 MALDIVE FREEDOM (Maldive Islands), 1977 broken up.

CITY OF POONA, Middlesbrough Dock, 14 March 1965 - nice bow shot!!
(5074018) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 9962gt, completed by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle, 7-1946. 1968 BENARKLE (British), 1974 broken up.

CITY OF PORT ELIZABETH, Middlesbrough Dock, 14 September 1964
(5074020) Ellerman Lines Ltd., London, 13363gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle, 12-1952. 1971 MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND (Greece), 1975 MEDITERRANEAN SUN (Greece), 1980 broken up.

CITY OF PRETORIA, Middlesbrough Dock, 7 October 1964
(disaster struck while developing the film in the school darkroom!)
Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co. Ltd., London, 8450gt, completed by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead, 11-1947. 1967 PROXENEION (Greece), 1967 broken up.