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

HARLINGEN, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
HARLINGEN (5142932), Netherlands, 500gt, built Leer 1956 (lengthened 1959).
Capsized and sank 3-1972.

HAWKWOOD, Hartlepool Docks, 21 January 1965
HAWKWOOD (5144710), Wm France, Fenwick & Co. Ltd., London, 2850gt, completed
4-1944 by S.P. Austin & Son Ltd., Sunderland. 1965 IOANNIS P (Panama), 1969
broken up.

HELWAN, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 15 June 1964
HELWAN (5147396), Egypt (UAR), 1946gt, built Rostock 1960. ...

HERCULANEUM, Liverpool, 14 September 1965
HERCULANEUM (5404988), Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 161gt, completed
12-1962 by W.J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd., Northwich. ...

HORNBY, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
HORNBY, Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 201gt, completed 9-1936 by
Cochrane & Sons Ltd., Selby. 1967 NORTH COCK (British), 1968 broken up.

HUGO RETZLAFF, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 21 August 1964
HUGO RETZLAFF (5156593), West Germany, 2897gt, built Hamburg 1958, ex
Edertal-61. 1972 TARA E (Cyprus), sank after collision 9-1977

HUTTON CROSS, off Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 13 August 1962

HUTTON CROSS, Middlesbrough Dock Cut, 23 March 1963
It took me a while to work out where this must be, and that she would be stern
tug on the GEORGIDORE (see G page)

HUTTON CROSS, Tees Towing Tug Base, River Tees, 15 May 1965
HUTTON CROSS (5157248), Tees Towing Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 105gt, completed
3-1958 by Scott & Sons (Bowling) Ltd., Glasgow (as amended LR 1975). 1970
KAMPERLAND (Netherlands), 1972 (Belgium),

HUXTER, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
HUXTER (5157250), West Germany, 745gt, built Elmshorn 1954. 1966 SAN MIGUEL
BREWER (Philippines), 1973 NONOC TRANSPORT (Philippines), ...
I have a note from LR 1983 supplements that she was damaged by stranding
10-1978.