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HMS HIGHBURTON

Postby Nighttrucker » Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:48 pm

1/ HIGHBURTON in for a break during Fish Patrol.
2/ NORTHUMBRIA Ex WISTON & HIGHBURTON View from the Tyne Bridge.
HIGHBURTON Newcastle Quayside.jpg

HIGHBURTON & NORTHUMBRIA.jpg

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Re: HMS HIGHBURTON

Postby magoonigal » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:44 pm

HIGHBURTON.
Thornycroft, 2nd June 1954.
Broken up July 1978, Middlesbrough.

WISTON.
Wivenhoe Shipyard, 3rd June 1958.
Sold to H. K. Vickers on the 9th August 1982 for breaking up at Blyth.

BUT not sure if she was broken up at Blyth.....Last arrival for H K Vickers I have is BOSTON PROVOST which arrived on the 28th April 1982.
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Re: HMS HIGHBURTON

Postby magoonigal » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:46 pm

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Re: HMS HIGHBURTON

Postby magoonigal » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:49 pm

Link Two......

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=545&p=13059&hilit=Wiston#p13059

Thought it rang a bell. Broken up at Whitby.
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