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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J.H. LAMEY, Liverpool, 10 September 1965
J.H. LAMEY (5415949), J.H. Lamey Ltd., Liverpool, 216gt, completed 3-1964 by Cochrane & Sons Ltd., Selby. 1970 HORNBY (British), ...

Twin funnel uptakes - the ultimate in modernity for the time!

JADE, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
JADE (5167554), Gem Line Ltd. (William Robertson Shipowners Ltd.), Glasgow, 946gt, completed Capelle 8-1938. 1967 COSTAS (Greece), ....
Marine News (October 1976) reported her stranded 9-1976

JALAMANJARI, Middlesbrough Dock, 9 June 1964
JALAMANJARI (5233676), India, 4510gt, completed Grand Quevilly 5-1956, ex Meudon-64. 1970 HARILION (Greece), 1972 broken up.
She had just replaced the Liberty ship of the name broken up earlier that year.

JALAPANKHI, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
JALAPANKHI (5074965), India, 9242gt, completed 4-1961 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, ex Clan Fergusson-65. 1983 broken up.
(It has always intrigued me that this Tyne-built Clan and her sisters of the CLAN F.. class were all disposed of within years of being built. This was another vessel seen during my first visit to the Tyne in February 1961.)

ANTILLA alongside

JAN HAMM, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
JAN HAMM (5169526), West Germany, 424gt, built Hamburg 1955. 1975 OMNIA (Panama), 1981 ANNA HENNY (Panama), 1981 JEAN BART IV (Belgium), ...
(Memory check. Is this last name ringing a bell as a vessel of some notoriety still (fairly recently) berthed upstream in the Ijmuiden area???)