50 YEARS AGO TODAY - IRA

[teesships]

IRA (LT269), 114gt, completed H. Scarr, Hessle, 11-1951
1951 BENTLEY QUEEN - 1960 IRA - 1980 (scrapped?)

I will have her fuller details, but not immediately accessible.
Not in Miramar, so the above gleaned from the 'net.

River Tyne - 23 August 1973:

Ron M

[northeast]

Built for (of all people!) the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company, owners of several small trawlers around that time.

http://www.shippingandshipbuilding.uk/v ... TLEY+QUEEN

[teesships]

Thanks George. Why didn't I think of looking there?
Mr Google let me down as well!!

Ron M

[northeast]

Surely the WHSNC book rests in your bookshelf!