welcomes all ship enthusiasts
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MY FAVOURITE BRIDGE
The famous Teesside landmark, the Transporter Bridge (built 1911) across the River Tees between Middlesbrough and Port Clarence.
[covering
the
North-East
coast
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welcomes all
ship enthusiasts
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MY
FAVOURITE
BRIDGE
The famous Teesside
landmark, the Transporter Bridge (built 1911) across the River Tees
between Middlesbrough and Port Clarence.
Sea Fever by John Masefield
I MUST down
to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted
knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
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12.10.09: Announcement
TEESSHIPS WILL BE MOVING!
TEESSHIPS has been running
now for almost ten years (wow!) and for most of the time has been
hosted by freeuk. I have to say they have provided an excellent service
and I cannot recall any period in which TEESSHIPS has ever been
offline. Over the years I have maximised the capacity of their web
hosting but, unfortunately, I have now found this to be insufficient
for my future requirements, particularly as I have now moved into
digital photography.
Therefore, I have decided to follow the path already taken by George
Robinson for his Riversea International site, and will be moving to the
Streamline server with the slightly amended URL of teesships.co.uk
This will not happen overnight! As regular readers will
know upkeep of TEESSHIPS is, at present, a part-time, intermittent,
activity. I will start uploading my Vlissingen 2009 sightings to new
web pages but, for quite some time, I anticipate the two TEESSHIPS
websites will run in tandem, each linked to the other.
25.09.10. Yes, regular viewers
know just how slow I have been in making any progress - and I am sorry
that has been the case. However, I can now bring you the following link
to a Powerpoint presentation I gave earlier this month to my local
Teesside Ship Society (Teesside Branch of the World Ship Society)
featuring the ship sightings with details from the Baltic cruise my
wife and I much enjoyed at the end of May into early June.
It is a large site (over 300 slides), may take a while to load,
but you can even save it direct to your own computer if you so wish
(assuming everything works as it should!). So, I hope you will enjoy
....
On this new
TEESSHIPS website:
(added 25.09.10) BALTIC CRUISE 2010
26.09.10: Note: Slide 310 now
identified, through Tugtalk, as: CAPTAIN HOOK (5158981) 120gt,
completed Gothenburg 1956 (ex Swedjeholm - 01, ex. Karl-Manfred-94, ex.
Ran-82, ex. Illern-79, ex. Thetis-62) see: http://www.tugboatlars.se/Karlmanfred.htm
[still in Equasis as SWEDJEHOLM]
(revised 17.04.10) VLISSINGEN (FLUSHING) 2009
Search TEESSHIPS:
17.02.09 = 295 pages