New 06 May 2008

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

M1

MAGDAPUR, Tees Dock, 15 June 1965
MAGDAPUR (5217012), Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, 8488gt, completed Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow, 2-1945. 1970 MAGDA (Greece), 1971 broken up.

MAKENI PALM, Liverpool, 14 September 1965
MAKENI PALM (5218028), Palm Line Ltd., London, 6137gt, completed J.L. thompson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, 4-1951, ex British Rover-61. 1967 KERKENNAH (Panama), 1971 PALAU (Italy), 1978 broken up.

MALAKAND, Middlesbrough Dock, 21 December 1962

MALAKAND, Middlesbrough Dock, 4 March 1965
MALAKAND, Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, 8078gt, completed Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow, 12-1942. 1966 broken up.

MALTASIAN, Middlesbrough Dock, 14 March 1965
MALTASIAN (5073959), Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 3910gt, completed W. Gray & Co. Ltd., Hartlepools, 9-1950, ex City Of Norwich-64, ex Maltasian-62. 1966 CAPETAN CHRISTOS P (Panama), 1974 AIAS (Greece), 1974 broken up.
(stern of CITY OF YORK alongside - unusual for one of her class to be squeezed into an inset leg of the dock!)

MANAAR, River Tees (Smith's Docks), 23 August 1965
MANAAR (5218846), Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, 8970gt, completed Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow, 10-1950. 1971 broken up.

MANCHESTER PORT, River Tees (Smith's Docks), 7 July 1966
MANCHESTER PORT (6611502), Manchester Liners Ltd., Manchester, 8939gt, completed Smith's Dock Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 11-1966 (launched 05.05.1966). 1971 BIOKOVO (Yugoslavia), 1980 YDRA (Greece), burnt and stranded January 1983.

MANIPUR, Middlesbrough Dock, 1 April 1964
MANIPUR, Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, completed Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow, 12-1945. 1967 broken up.

MANTA, River Tees (off Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves), 31 August 1962
MANTA (5219711), Netherlands, 366gt, built Wirdum 1951. 1965 (British), 1979 URANOS III (Panama), 19(82) MACEDONIA (Panama), 1984 broken up.

MANX MAID, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
MANX MAID (5219931), Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Douglas, 2724gt, completed Cammell Laird & Co. (S.B. & E.) Ltd., Birkenhead, 5-1962. 1986 broken up.

MAORI, Middlesbrough Dock, 13 August 1962
MAORI (5220007), France, 7474gt, built La Ciotat 1958. Foundered November 1971.
(MARTAND hiding behind her)

MARE BONUM, Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 31 August 1964
MARE BONUM (5221221), Netherlands, 500gt, completed Amsterdam 12-1957, ex Annie F-63. 1969 BUCHOLZ (West Germany), 1971 ERMIS (Greece), 1983 HANAN (Honduras), 199(9) deleted??

(just found a site dedicated to the de Haas ships at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~beejee/dehaas/Marevloot-English.htm)

MARGUERITE, Liverpool, 5 September 1965
MARGUERITE (5222122), Belgium, 1837gt, built Tamise, launched 1943, completed 1949. 1966 ZACHARIAS Z (Greece), 1972 (Cyprus), 1982 reported broken up.