Completed 16 July 2008

TEESSHIPS
PERSONAL SIGHTINGS

01 April 2008
Tees Dock

Another chance for a "busman's holiday" in organising another visit to the Mission to Seafarers for work purposes!
However, you can tell it was a windy day when the regular caller NORKING required a tug. I found some shelter from wherein to take the following photos (through the upperworks of the WILTON berthed inconveniently at the end of the roundhead!) but with varying results.
When I ventured away from that shelter the wind was so strong I simply would not have been able to hold my conventional cameras, never mind little digital camera, steady enough to take shots of tankers at North Tees ... and I did try to get into position!

FIERY CROSS (9064712), Svitzer Marine Ltd., British, 296gt, completed R. Dunston (Hessle) Ltd., Hessle, 9-1993

(Somewhat bleached!!)

NORKING (7902635), Finland, 17884gt, completed Rauma 9-1980, ex Bore King-91

enlarged:

GARGANO (9249403), British, 2244gt, completed Brattvag 1-2002

Well, I was hoping for better results from trying digital zoom on the Steel Terminal!!!!

FAILED!!!!! 
(hopefully comes out OK in due course from less than half frame on colour prints? I had seen her before so will have another view somewhere in my archives!)

16.07.08: Here are those colour prints - a slight improvement?

SANTA ISABEL (9120035), Panama, 79855gt, completed Sasebo 7-1996

... and not much better simply across river!!!!

DUTCH MARINER (8414489), Netherlands, 2183, completed Tonsberg 8-1986

BITTEN THERESA (9165451), Denmark (DIS), 3356gt, completed Tuzla 7-1998, ex Emilia Theresa-02

CONTAINERSHIPS VI (9188518), Germany, 9953gt, completed Hamburg 10-1999

(not a sight seen every day - a CONTAINERSHIPS vessel berthing alongside the steel berth in Tees Dock!)