TEESSHIPS
50TH ANNIVERSARY SIGHTINGS
FRIDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2010
SOUTH GARE, RIVER TEES
19 November 1960 - 19 November 2010
Celebrating 50 years of merchant ship observing, photography and
research
Have a look at:
How
it
began! (revised
10.12.05)
[since this page was originally written
the 1948-built STOCKHOLM re-entered service as the CARIBE from 2003,
becoming the ATHENA in 2005.];
MY
FIRST WEEK OF SHIPS (last revised
19.11.05);
(with
photos!) (first featured on
25.12.02);
[for more on the CITY OF YORK see http://www.teesships.freeuk.com/070609beginningx3.htm
Per Miramar: arrested at Patras 8.96, beached at Patras 26.11.02 &
capsized at Eleusis by 1.03]
MY
FIRST SHIP (revised and reintroduced
19.11.05);
50-YEAR
HIGHLIGHTS (new 19.11.10; slightly
revised 22.11.10)
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New 22 November 2010
TEESSHIPS
50TH ANNIVERSARY SIGHTINGS
FRIDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2010
SOUTH GARE, RIVER TEES
I must go
down to the sea again was an imperative requirement to
commemorate my 50th anniversary!
As Anne and I left home the weather was as
forecast - grey cloud, so no great expectations of taking brilliant
pictures! However, as we drove down the road towards the South Gare our
first glimpse of the lighthouse seemed to show it shrouded in fog
(shades of 1960!) and potentially disappointing! However, although mist
and fog ebbed and flowed during our few hours there I did manage to
successfully record the few shipping movements that took place. It has
to be said, however, the final results do owe something to modern day
enhancement of digital photographs! (works better on some colours than
others - black hulls tidy up quite well, red hulls can sometimes
produce somewhat "artificial" results - but do we care?)
The day's sightings were:
For the Record
- MINERVA VERA and CAPE FRONTIER