New 03 August 2006
TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS OF BAD ROAD!
with acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad Road"

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IBERIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 31 August 1964
IBERIAN COAST (5157810), Tyne-Tees S.S. Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 1188gt, completed 6-1950 by G. Brown & Co. (Marine) Ltd., Greenock, launched as Sandringham Queen. 1966 PUPI (Italy), 1976 AGIOS NICOLAOS (Greece), burnt and sank 8-1978.

IKEJA PALM, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
IKEJA PALM (5158553), Palm Line, 5682gt, completed 4-1961 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle. 1981 G.M.E. PALMA (Greece), 1982 PALMA (Greece), 1983 broken up.
First sighted while building on the Tyne in February 1961.

ILLSTEIN, Tyne-Tees/Dent's Wharves, 18 September 1964
ILLSTEIN (5159026), West Germany (Nordeutscher Lloyd, no less, and later, from 1970 Hapag-Lloyd A.G.), 3049gt, built Vegesack 1959. 1972 MINSHAN (Somali Republic), 1978 LONG SHAN (Republic of China), ...

INDIAN INDUSTRY, Liverpool, 10 September 1965
INDIAN INDUSTRY (5160295), India, 5429gt, completed 10-1959 at Vizagapatnam. 1981 PANCHDEEP (India), 1983 broken up.

INDIAN STRENGTH, Tees Dock, 23 August 1965
INDIAN STRENGTH (5160415), India, 9415gt, completed Hamburg 12-1958. 1979 FAULAD SARDAR (India), 1981 SUCCESS (Panama), ...
I have a note from subsequent LR supplements that she was burnt/damaged by hostilities 1-1982.

INDORITA, Irlam, Manchester Ship Canal, 16 September 1965
INDORITA (5160532), Coppack Bros. & Co., Chester, 203gt, completed 8-1920 by I.J. Abdela & Mitchell, Queensferry. 1974 broken up.
My last sighting of an excellent fortnight holiday around the River Mersey, based in a guesthouse at New Brighton. 
Factoid! This location was only yards from the home of Karl Green, bass player with Herman's Hermits. I had visited his family who my dad had known years earlier when he worked (briefly) at local Manchester steelworks (well, something like that - memory is vague after 40+ years!)
Factoid! Peter Noone, lead singer with Herman's Hermits, shares my birthday (although not the same year)!
Factoid! Their no. 1 hit "I'm Into Something Good" was released August 1964 (hitting top spot the next month).