New 06 May 2008

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

M3

MEATH, Liverpool, 7 September1965
MEATH (5230428), British & Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd., Irish Republic, 1558gt, completed Dublin 5-1960. 1975 VICKERS VISCOUNT (British), 1979 BRITISH VISCOUNT (British), [from Miramar] 1981 FAIRFIELD VISCOUNT (?) [LR subsequently deleted this reported name change! (own records)], 1983 BRITISH VISCOUNT (?), 1990 BRITISH (?), 1990 broken up

MELAMPUS, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
MELAMPUS (5231501), Ocean Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 8511gt, completed Vickers-Armstrongs (S.B.) Ltd., Newcastle, 6-1960. (detained in Bitter Lakes from June 1967), 1978 ANNOULA II (Greece), 1982 broken up.

MELISSA M, River Tees (OME* Wharf), 24 September 1964
MELISSA M (5231719), Metcalf Motor Coasters Ltd., London, 1089gt, completed Westerbroek 7-1956. 1977 PANORMITIS (Greece), 1984 MARIOS M (?), foundered April 1985.
(*Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, the consortium that originally developed the new town of Middlesbrough from 1830, and who continued into the 1970s. As can be seen their wharf was at the entrance to Middlesbrough Dock Cut [opposite Dock Point] and adjacent to the tug station.)

MENTOR, Liverpool, 14 September 1965
(assisted by the BANGARTH)
MENTOR (5232189), Ocean S.S. Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 7642gt, built Richmond 1945, ex Carthage Victory-47. 1968 VITA (Panama), 1969 VIVA (Panama), 1971 SYRA (Panama), 1971 broken up.

MERSEY COAST, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
MERSEY COAST (5233119), Coast Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 509gt, completed Alblasserdam 5-1938. 1967 (Greece), wrecked June 1971. (expected change of name to AGIOS ARTEMIOS following sale in 1967 never took place!)

MESNA, River Tees (Eston Jetty), 23 August 1965
MESNA (5233298), Norway, 10498gt, built Dordrecht 1958. 1968 BONITA (Norway), 1974 BONNYDALE (Liberia), 1976 DAPO ALECOS (Greece), 1981 MARIA S (Greece), in port damaged 11-1980, 1983 broken up.

MILORA, Tees Dock, 15 June 1965
MILORA (5235296), Norway, 12230gt, built Emden 1962. 1972 ATLAS CARRIER (South Korea), 1984 broken up.

MINSTER, Hartlepool Docks, 21 January 1965
MINSTER (5236408), Stephenson Clarke Ltd., London, 3647gt, completed Burntisland S.B. Co. Ltd., Burntisland, 6-1950. 1971 ELANDI (Cyprus), 1973 ORE STAR (Cyprus), 1975 PETROLA L (Greece), 1976 PETROLA 50 (Greece), 1978 (Panama), 1980 broken up.

MOIRA M, River Tees (off Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves), 13 March 1963
MOIRA M, Metcalf Motor Coasters Ltd., London, 678gt, completed Goole S.B. & R. Co. Ltd., Goole, 9-1937, ex Tronda-61, ex Andoni-49. 1968 broken up.

MONMOUTHSHIRE, Middlesbrough Dock, 31 August 1962
MONMOUTHSHIRE, Glen Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 7868gt, built by Caledon S.B. & E. Co. Ltd., Dundee, 1943, ex Telemachus-57. 1963 GLAUCUS (British), 1964 NANCHANG (British), 1968 broken up.

MOUNTSTEWART, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
MOUNTSTEWART (5243023), Belfast S.S. Co. Ltd., Belfast, 892gt, completed Ardrossan Dkyd Ltd., Ardrossan, 7-1955, ex Essex Coast-57. 1969 EVDELOS (Panama), 1972 MICHALIS (Panama), 1976 PROODOS (Panama), 1979 MANUEL (Panama), 1986 broken up.

MULCAIR, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
MULCAIR (5243487), Limerick S.S. Co. Ltd., Irish Republic, 500gt, completed Hoogezand 1-1958. 1976 AARHUS (Cyprus), 1979 TARA SKY (Irish Republic), 1991 NURHAN (?), 1993 AMINA SUN (?), 1994 ABU ALALAMIN (?), 1996 RANIA (?), 2005 broken up.

MUSTAFA, Middlesbrough Dock, 4 March 1965
MUSTAFA (5244285), Turkey, 7375gt, completed Bartram & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, 5-1946, ex Clan Murdoch-61, ex Hesperia-60, launched as Empire Southwold. 1974 DENIZHANLAR (Turkey), 1979 broken up.
(I think I was aware of her Clan Line antecedents when I saw her, and I was quite intrigued by her wartime cut-off stern design!)

.... and because I have a nice photo of her as DENIZHANLAR I will show it!!!