Dunston Buoys

[Rivoldini]

Kayes MARYLYN laid up at Dunston in the early 1960's.

[northeast]

Fine view of her, thanks for her and this series!

[Poyntonian]

I have a vague record and memory of seeing two of Maclay & McIntyre's ships, Empire vessels LOCH DON & LOCH MORAR of 1943, apparently laid up on the Tyne, seen from the train from Carlisle to Newcastle. (When on a trainspotting trip).

Can anyone confirm this please and would they be at Dunston Buoys, or were there other buoys on the upper Tyne?

Both were sold in 1959, so the layup was probably just prior to those sales.

[Keelman]

During the 1960's when my home was in Dunston the ships I witnessed laid up at the mooring buoys in the river opposite Dunston Generating Station were MARYLYN - Bowrings CAPE BRETON - George Nisbets BLAIRSPEY.
I clearly recall two ships being laid up alongside each other for a while when I first began to take an interest. One of them carried the name YELKENCI. I have just checked in the book British Tramps by I.G.Stewart and I see that her previous name was LOCH MORAR. Presumably she had been handed over to new owners while on Tyneside.
There were no other mooring buoys upriver from those at Dunston. The only vessels going further upstream that I witnessed were bound for Derwenthaugh Coal Staiths (closed in 1968) or the fly ash hoppers serving Stella Generating Sation.

[Poyntonian]

Thanks Keelman
LOCH DON renamed KRALJEVICA in 1959, maybe also handed over on the Tyne.

[Rivoldini]

I recall Cory's RAMILLES laid up at Dunston round about 1963.

Also don't forget Watsons LADY SYBILLA that was on a weekly run from Rotterdam to Newburn, Anglo Great Lakes with Graphite in the 1960's. It used to lay by at Newcastle on every trip and could go under the swing bridge on certain tides.

[magoonigal]

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