HOOFORT (8203490), 671gt, completed Yorkshire DD, Hull, 1983
1983 WHITONIA - 1997 ANTONIA B - 1999 HOOFORT
wrecked off Rye 1.02 & hulked - made into a pusher barge in Netherlands
(Miramar previously showed: wrecked off Rye 1.02 & hulked - BU Gravesend & Erith 2002-4)
River Ouse outward bound - 24 October 2001 Ron

At Whitgift .... and I was standing next to you!

Sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I wasn't going to tell them our secret!!!

I have absolutely no reason to doubt the veracity of my TEESSHIPS webpage from 10 years ago wherein I stated: Parked at Whitgift and climbed up the embankment passing a car at the roadside. Along came the HOOFORT .... and from out of that parked car and up the steps George came puffing, just in time to get stern shots similar to mine!

(And we were both in the NEM Junior section then!)

R.

Sssssssssssssh! And please confirm it was between 1230 and 1330, my small lunch break from managing a nearby well-known port .....

If you say so ....................!

Now, let me see. Wednesday, 24 October 2001. The HOOFORT was my first sighting that day, after which it was the usual tour of the River Trent, then back to Goole. Yes, OK, that sounds about right .... I met you on your lunch-hour!

Ron

As ANTONIA B at Goole 15.02.97 and HOOFORT on the Humber 03.08.00

As ANTONIA B inward at Rozenburg 24/06/1999

WHITONIA in William Wright Dock
Taken on one of our forays from the North to the Humber's happy hunting grounds
Regards
Graham