New 30 July 2006
TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

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FACTOR, Liverpool, 14 September 1965
FACTOR (5111531), Charente S.S. Co. Ltd., (T.&J. Harrison), Liverpool, 6533gt, completed 4-1948 by C. Connell & co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1972 broken up.

FAVORIET, Birkenhead, 10 September 1965
FAVORIET (5112913), Netherlands, 500gt, built Bergum 1957. 1977 PAN I (Panama), in port damaged 5-1982, 1982 broken up.

FIERY CROSS, Middlesbrough Dock, 7 October 1964

My notebook indicates it is the CITY OF EXETER in the background.

FIERY CROSS, River Tees (off Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves), 12 October 1964

I have carefully noted on the back of the print that it is T.C.C. DREDGER NO. 10 in the background.

FIERY CROSS, River Tees (across from North Tees Oil Jetties), 18 May 1965

Yes, IRISH BLACKTHORN in background.

FIERY CROSS (5114674), Tees Towning Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 192gt, completed 5-1957 by Scott & Sons, Bowling. 1981 WATERLAND (Netherlands), ...

FLAMINIAN, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
FLAMINIAN (5116062), Westcott & Laurence Line Ltd., (Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd.), Liverpool, 3100gt, completed 2-1956 by Henry Robb Ltd., Leith. 1974 CITY OF IZMIR (British), 1975 CLIMAX PEARL (Maldives), 1981 MALDIVE PEARL (Maldives), ...

FLORISTAN, Middlesbrough Dock, 28 December 1965
FLORISTAN (6505997), Strick Line Ltd., London, 9470gt, completed 6-1965 by J. Readhead & Sons Ltd., South Shields. 1975 STRATHALVIE (British), 1978 ALEXANDRA (Greece), damaged by fire 11-1982, 1983 broken up.

FRANCIS SAMUELSON at her berth just off Dock Point, Middlesbrough Dock Cut, 28 August 1964
(I have always felt the sunlighting of this particular print to have an ethereal quality.)

T.C.C. DREDGER NO. 1 in the background.

FRANCIS SAMUELSON at the same location, but this time taken while on a river trip, 23 August 1965
FRANCIS SAMUELSON (5119557), Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Stockton, 140gt, built 1924 by Smith's Docks Co. Ltd., South Bank, Middlesbrough. 1972 broken up.

FRISIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 10 September 1964
FRISIAN COAST (5121782), Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 592gt, completed 12-1937 at Groningen, ex Lowick-46. 1967 AGIA ELENI (Greece), wrecked 11-1977.