ROSS RODNEY (5300649), G.F.Sleight & Sons Ltd, Grimsby (per Miramar), 697gt,
completed Cochrane & Sons, Selby, 1-1957
1957 RODNEY - 1962 ROSS RODNEY
BU Hartlepool 6.3.80 [Unfit Building Ltd]
Now, even for Hartlepool, there must be some doubt over that company name! Unifit, maybe ... web search does not help!!
While looking for something else, I came across my negative of this trawler in Hull on 4 July 1967, which I had been meaning to dig out and show for quite some time. Memory plays strange tricks and until I looked up her details I'd completely forgotten I'd seen her again while being broken up at Hartlepool! Recorded on 2 March 1980: As I say, memory plays strange tricks. Where I'm getting confused is that I first saw her the previous year on 1 September 1966. On that occasion, she was the last but one ship I recorded at the end of a long day walking the then extensive dock system! My recollection is that she was tucked away, not in one of the fish docks, but one of the docks in the city centre, from where I would head back to Paragon railway station. Possibly Railway Dock (now the marina), maybe even Princess Dock. Just before that I had photographed the ALIGNITY from the pier area.
Now, with this sighting the following year, she was again virtually the last vessel seen, only a handful of tugs, a couple of them veterans awaiting disposal, followed in my notebook. Can anyone tell me from the background whether this 1967 sighting was in St. Andrew's Dock, or was she still back in the city centre docks?
Yes, I know, I'm getting old, but it was 46 years ago!!! (And a nice shot of her!!)
Ron
PS. This is one of those topics that could fit in about 4 different niches on NEM!! I decided on Fishing Vessels of Hull because that was the location for my sighting.