ARDENODE

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This completes a small mini-series of photos taken by Albert Weller showing ships having sailed from Middlesbrough Dock about to turn right out of the Dock Cut into the main River Tees.
On this occasion, a Tyne-built ship.
The ARDENODE, 7050gt, owned by Mullion & Co. of Hong Kong, would appear to have been on a British India charter at the time.
Completed in October 1942 as the EMPIRE CLAYMORE by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she transferred to the Belgian Government as the CAPITAINE PARET in 1946. It was in 1960 she became the ARDENODE and in 1966 she was sold and renamed TYNLEE lasting a further three years before being broken up at Kaohsiung in July 1969.
I personally saw this ship in February 1965 but I feel it may have been during a previous visit that Albert caught her sailing.

Ron

[teesships]

An enlarged scan from the original negative, plus a greatly enlarged distant view from a very small original image.

Ron