New 19 October 2009

  TEESSHIPS
VLISSINGEN (FLUSHING) 2009

DAY 2 - Thursday, 30 July 2009

EUROPOORT

Sighting 016 - STENA TRANSFER

 

STENA TRANSFER (7528570), British, 21162gt, completed Ulsan 11-1977

1977 STENA RUNNER - 1978 ALPHA PROGRESS - 1979 HELLAS - 1986 DORIC FERRY - 1992 EUROPEAN TIDEWAY - 2002 IDEWAY - 2002 STENA TRANSFER
(restructured 1979 and 1981)

Seen over the years as:

ALPHA PROGRESS - Tees Dock - New Year's Day 1978
Now there's a thing! Delivered as STENA RUNNER on 04.11.1977 and renamed ALPHA PROGRESS 1978.
If that date is correct the paint cannot  have been dry by the time I took this photo? (and both sets of names do look somewhat indistinct as at that time)

DORIC FERRY - North Sea off Hook of Holland - 24 July 1989
(The start of a holiday during which I first visited Vlissingen.)

EUROPEAN TIDEWAY - Hook of Holland - 22 May 1995
(While I was returning from the WSS AGM in Rotterdam.)

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