New 07 May 2008

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

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NORTH BEACH, Liverpool, 6 September 1965
NORTH BEACH (5256795), Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 220gt, completed by Scott & Sons, Bowling, 6-1956. 1972 CAPO FIGARI (Italy), still in service (2008)

NORTH END, Liverpool, 7 September 1965
NORTH END (5256903), Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 215gt, completed W.J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd., Northwich, 6-1957. 1972 FIGARI (Italy), 1975 BITTI (Italy), (reported "dead" by Equasis from 2001).

NORTH QUAY, Liverpool, 9 September 1965
NORTH QUAY (5257086), Alexandra Towing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, 219gt, completed Scott & Sons, Bowling, 10-1956. 1972 TERRALBA (Italy), wrecked February 1983 (http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=9180)

NOVIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 2 October 1964

NOVIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 14 March 1965
NOVIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees S.S. Co. Ltd., Sunderland, 507gt, completed Smith's Dock Co., Middlesbrough 5-1936, ex Wooler-46. 1968 broken up.

NOWSHERA, Middlesbrough Dock, 23 March 1963

NOWSHERA, Middlesbrough Dock, 25 August 1964
NOWSHERA (5258664), British India S.N. Co. Ltd., London, 8516gt, completed Scotts S.B. & E. Co. Ltd., Greenock, 2-1955. 1974 ARYA CHEHR (Iran), 1975 broken up.

NO. 64, River Tees (off Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves?), 21 November 1964
(what would environmental health have to say today??)
NO. 64, Tees Conservancy Commissioners, Middlesbrough, 491gt, completed Earle's Co. Ltd., Hull, 9-1912. 1967 broken up.
George Robinson has information NO. 64 was completed as yard no. 588 under this name, then became J.CONSTANT V then CENTRAL No.2 before reverting to NO. 64 (purchased by TCC 1920)

NYANZA, Middlesbrough Dock, 13 March 1963
NYANZA (5259383), British India S.N. Co. Ltd., London, 8513gt, completed by Scotts S.B. & E. Co., Greenock, 11-1956. 1964 BALRANALD (British), 1968 NYANZA (British), 1974 ARYA GOL (Iran), 1977 broken up.

NYHOLT, Middlesbrough Dock, 9 March 1963
NYHOLT, Norway, 10358gt, built Amsterdam 1951. 1965 broken up.
(as was common practice, an oil tanker in dock in the middle of the town!)