New 06 May 2008
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TEESSHIPS
40+ YEARS
OF BAD ROAD!
with
acknowledgement to Duane Eddy's 1959 hit "Forty Miles of Bad
Road"
L1


LANGFONN, Middlesbrough Dock, 11 June 1964
LANGFONN (5203293), Norway, 5352gt, built Gothenburg 1949. 1964 VIBRAN NJORD
(Norway), 1966 CONCORDIA VIBRAN (Norway), 1967 VIBRAN NJORD (Norway), 1968
PROSPERITAS (Liberia), 1976 PEGASOS III (Panama), 1978 HOUDA STAR (Cyprus), 1980
broken up.

LANGTON, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
LANGTON (6413613), Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 172gt, completed W.J.
Yarwood & Sons Ltd., Northwich, 11-1964 1986 MINOTAUROS (Greece), still in
service (2008)

LEENDERT BROERE, River Tees, 23 August 1965
LEENDERT BROERE (5205423), Netherlands, 500gt, completed Elmshorn 9-1960. 1975
SEIFALLAH (Saudi Arabia), 1992 SEKAVIN IV (Greece), 2004 MARIGO (Greece), 2006
LEONA (Comoros), 2008 (Equasis 14/04) KLIK II (Cambodia)

LEINSTER, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
LEINSTER (5205655), British & Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Irish Republic,
4115gt, completed Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast, 3-1948. 1968 LEINSTER I
(British), 1969 APHRODITE (Cyprus), 1987 broken up.

LEOVILLE, Middlesbrough Dock, 18 September
1964
LEOVILLE (5206702), Norway, 5305gt, built Copenhagen 1950. 1967 IOANNA (Greece),
1971 FELICITY (Greece), 1984 VARVARA TWO (?), 1984 broken up.

LIVANITA, River Tees (Smith's Docks), 18 May 1965
LIVANITA (5209792), Norway, 18736gt, completed Smith's Dock Co. Ltd.,
Middlesbrough, 3-1962. 1978 VIDA (Liberia), 1984 HOPPET (?), 1984 broken up.

LOS ANGELES, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
LOS ANGELES (5212438), Sweden, 7216gt, completed Malmo 8-1948. 1972 broken up (some
sources say having been renamed GELE)