Aaargh, you just put me off my Weetabix!
I heard something was a-foot, now we all know.
GET WELL SOON from NEM forum

Okey Dokey, that's the 4 Battles in the water sorted.
What is more interesting, from my point of view, are the Battles which aren't in the image at all.

Anyone making positive headway with all that merchant tonnage.

From the Ferry Landing we have.......ie From Left to Right.
Bottom Plates for a Cargo Ship for Elder Dempster. (Not Named)
LAMPANIA. Tanker for Anglo Saxon.
PORT LYTTELTON.
In River SAINTS on the outside and AGINCOURT on the inside.
ANGOLA on birth by the Destroyers bow but just the keel blocks have been laid.
SAN VIRGILIO is in the Dry Dock.

On the other side we have
AURIS on berth nearer to Hornby Grange's stern.
CORTONA on berth Hornby Grange midships.
And finally in the river HORNBY GRANGE.

Unfortunatly the Picture in "Our Ships at War" 1939-1945 is cropped and stops halfway down Hornby Grange...........

The white 2 funnelled ship is the Menestheus - she was converted to a minelayer early in the war then became a fleet amenities ship ( Brewery ) . She came to the Tyne around July 1946 for reinstatement. As to the destroyers I wouid say those at Swans are Gabbard and Corunna and the ones at HLs Agincourt and Alamein.

This seems to be the most appropriate thread for this photo of HORNBY GRANGE all dressed up and ready to launch.
Photo was sent to me by Kevin Blair

Trying to identify the tanker in dock.
On the day after the launch of HORNBY GRANGE the Shields Gazette listed the following ships at Hawthorn Leslies:
SAN VENANCIO (1942 Tanker built by Hawthorn Leslie)
ARICULA - Cannot find this one
CAPSA (1931 Tanker built by Hawthorn Leslie)
TEAKWOOD (1927 Tanker built by Armstrong Whitworth)
HORNBY GRANGE

Never believe what you read in print
AURICULA Anglo Saxon Petroleum Tankers Ltd.
I had an interview with Shell over two days in London 1978/79 and remember being told every ship had a shell of the ship's name in the accommodation
http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/A-Ships ... a1946.html

Sorry forgot to add that the comment was made the smaller the ship the bigger shell!
Regards
Graham

So the tanker is TEAKWOOD, looks good to me
http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/T-Ships ... d1927.html