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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OLINDA, Middlesbrough Dock, 17 March 1964
OLINDA (5262548), British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London, 5424gt, completed W. Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton, 2-1950. 1966 OCEAN PROMOTER (British), 1970 DELTA PIONEER (British), 1973 broken up.

OLIVIAN COAST, Newcastle Quay, 29 August 1966
OLIVIAN COAST, Tyne-Tees S.S. Co. Ltd., Newcastle, 749gt, completed by Ardrossan Dkyd Co. Ltd., Ardrossan, 11-1946. 1968 broken up.

OLWE, Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 10 May 1965
OLWE (5305170), Netherlands, 399gt, completed at Zuidbroek 5-1955, ex Sagitta-65. 1969 HANNA MARJUT (Finland), 1975 GLENCREE (Irish Republic), 1977 ESKSTREAM (British), NISSOS MILOS (Greece), ???

OPHIR, Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 20 July 1964
OPHIR (5263891), Israel, 1369gt, built Le Havre 1962. 1972 KLEARCHOS (Greece), burnt and sank July 1979.

(schoolboy development of film that went wrong!!)
ORTRUD MULLER, River Tees (off Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves), 2 October 1962
ORTRUD MULLER (5265825), West Germany, 884gt, built Elmshorn 1956. 1965 SIMON (Norway), 1975 RAMSLAND (Norway), ???
(A 1997 item on the internet suggests subsequent names of GOD IS GOOD and REX BEAR, with her future very uncertain by 1997! See: http://news.miaminewtimes.com/1997-03-06/news/urban-shipwreck/5)

OSTENDIA, berthing at Tyne-Tees & Dent's Wharves, 2 October 1964
OSTENDIA (5018454), Belgium, 481gt, completed Westerbroek 6-1951, ex Anna Elisabeth-64, ex Anna Sylvia-56. 1970 NONIS (Greece), 1981 SAINT GEORGE (Greece), 1984 AGIOS NIKOLAOS (?), 1986 GEORGIA M (?), 1989 DIAS (?), foundered March 1989.

OTTO PORR, River Mersey, 9 September 1965
OTTO PORR (5267328), West Germany, 999gt, built Hamburg 1961. 1971 MENES (Italy), 1984 ANNA P, 1988 RHONDA, 1994 IOANNA B, 1995 LADY LAILA, 1996 SEA STAR 1, 1996 MAYSALOUN 1, 1997 NINO 1, 1998 MAYSALOUN 1, 2001 MAYSSALON, 2001 broken up.