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

CITY OF RIPON
(I reckon she was my most photographed ship!!)

CITY OF RIPON (5074056) Ellerman Lines Ltd., Glasgow, 7713gt, completed by Vickers-Armstrongs (S.Bs) Ltd., Walker-on-Tyne, 3-1956. 1978 BENVANNOCH (British), 1979 broken up.

Middlesbrough Dock, 21 December 1962

Middlesbrough Dock, 25 December 1962 
(I think this was the only Christmas Day I ever went down to the docks!)

Middlesbrough Dock, 2 October 1964

Middlesbrough Dock, 7 October 1964

Middlesbrough Dock Cut (sailing), 10 July 1965