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Colliers

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:49 pm
by teesships
What a line up off Readhead's yard at South Shields! Remember those days?
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EWELL (5110563), 1877gt, completed Hall, Aberdeen, 4-1958 1970 FLETCHING, BU Gijon 24.6.80 [Desguaces Hemesa]
KINGSTON (5187815), 1873gt, completed Burntisland 12-1956. 1971 TSIMENTION, BU Eleusis 20.9.83 [Vionav Ltd]
CHESSINGTON 1720gt, completed Burntisland 4-1946. reduced to storage hulk at Gothenburg 6.4.66
WANDSWORTH 1875gt, completed Burntisland 4-1950. 1968 PIETRO REMBADO,
collision (RIO TAJO) 36.20N/9.05W 30.6.68 & sank off Cape Espichel 2.7.68 [Savona-Leixoes, coke]
(Teesside Branch WSS Albert Weller Collection)
Ron