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

K2

KARNAK, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
KARNAK (5182621), Moss Hutchinson Line Ltd., Liverpool, 3198gt, completed 1-1948 by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. 1971 EUDOCIA (Greece), 1981 broken up.

KATE HAMM, off Tees Towing Tug Base, sailing from Cochrane's Wharf, River Tees, 15 May 1965
KATE HAMM (5183443), West Germany, 499gt, built Hamburg 1957. 1968 SONKE HAUSCHILDT (West Germany), 1974 LENIO (Maldives), reported foundered 10-1974.

Now I remember why I went onto the tug base that day - it was to record the veteran EVANDROS (see FAVOURITE SHIPS) in midstream. The sailing of the KATE HAMM was something of a bonus.

My notebook faithfully records the two ore carriers at Ichaboe No. 1 buoys (on the right of these photos) as the ARJEPLOG and MESNA, but fails me utterly as to the identity of the vessel visible at the stern of the KATE HAMM in the first shot above. However, I think I have the answer insofar as only 3 days later I enjoyed a trip on the WILTON and noted the JAMES NO. 67 as being at Cochrane's - she dated from 1922.

KENUTA, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
KENUTA (5185362), Pacific Steam Nav. Co., Liverpool, 8494gt, completed 8-1950 by Greenock Dkyd Co. Ltd., Greenock. 1971 broken up.

KING CITY, Liverpool, 6 September 1965

KING CITY, Liverpool, 14 September 1965

Spot the difference in those 8 days? Change of funnel colours from (I think) Lamport & Holt to Clan Line.

KING CITY, Sunderland, 8 September 1966
KING CITY (5187516), Leeds Shipping Co. Ltd. (Sir Wm. Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd.), Bideford, 5593gt, 

And, no, I don't know what funnel colours she had almost a year later! However, the Reardon Smith S does not seem to be showing. Possibly at time of her sale, anyway?

KING ORRY, Birkenhead, 10 September 1965
KING ORRY (5187607), Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Douglas, 2485gt, completed 4-1946 by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead. 1978 broken up.