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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INNISCARRA, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
INNISCARRA (5161706), British & Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Dublin, Irish Republic, 584gt, completed 10-1948 by Burntisland S.B. Co. Ltd., Burntisland, ex Brittany Coast-50. 1969 ELNI (Greece), 1972 RIA (Greece), ...
The 1972 renaming despite being reported as broken up in Marine News for January 1970!

IRISH BLACKTHORN, Middlesbrough Dock, 15 June 1965
IRISH BLACKTHORN (5163106), Irish Shipping Ltd., Dublin, Irish Republic, 12168gt, completed 6-1959 by Fairfield S.B. & Eng. Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1965 PROFITIS ELIAS (Liberia), 1968 GOLDEN PIPER (Liberia), 1969 CAPTAIN ELIAS (Liberia), damaged by stranding 3-1969, 1969 broken up.

IRON BARQUE, Eston Jetties, River Tees, 23 August 1965
IRON BARQUE (5163479), Vallum Shipping Co. Ltd. (Common Bros. Ltd.), Newcastle, completed 5-1960 by Austin & Pickersgill Ltd., Sunderland. 1970 MAHINDA (Singapore), ....

ITALIAN, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
ITALIAN (5033818), Norway (but presumably Ellerman charter name?), 2440gt, built Langesund 1953, ex Bahia-64. 1966 BAHIA (Norway), 1966 PAPUAN CHIEF (British), 1969 MARSINA (British), 1970 PAPUAN CHIEF (British), 1975 MALDIVE CORAL (Maldives), 1979 broken up.

IVERNIA, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
IVERNIA (6405953), Cunard S.S. Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 5586gt, completed 4-1964 by Caledon S.B. & E. Co. Ltd., Dundee. 1970 MANIPUR (British), 1971 CONCORDIA MANIPUR (British), 1971 MANIPUR (British), 1977 PHILIPPA (Panama),  ...

IXION, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
IXION (5166029), Ocean Steam Ship Co. Ltd., (A. Holt & Co.), Liverpool, 10118gt, completed 1-1951 by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. 1972 broken up.

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