SEXTANT (5036688), West Germany, 495gt, completed Lubeck 2-1953
1953 FJELLBERG - 1954 TOUILA - 1960 BARDE - 1964 SEXTANT - 1972 ALMARIS - 1975 MIKE IV
capsized & sank off Andros Is 25.5.79 [Volos-Lattakia, paper on pallets]

OME Wharf - 17 August 1966:
OME = Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, the original developers of the new town of Middlesbrough from 1830 onwards.
Today the site is a car park for the adjacent Middlesbrough FC Riverside stadium. The tug station on its other side is still there.
This view from the opposite side of the Dock Cut is only half-frame with my old Box Brownie type camera, so gives a somewhat fuzzy view of the vessel and the surrounding wharfage.

Ron

Reminds me that on very early visits I found I could walk down the side of the Dock Cut and get round the end of the fence of the OME Wharf, then walk across to the tugs .... did that successfully until one day I was met by a rather large Alsatian half way across! After that, walked round the back past that smelly bone factory.

As BARDE see also: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=29075

Ron M

teesships wrote:SEXTANT (5036688), West Germany, 495gt, completed Lubeck 2-1953
1953 FJELLBERG - 1954 TOUILA - 1960 BARDE - 1964 SEXTANT - 1972 ALMARIS - 1975 MIKE IV
capsized & sank off Andros Is 25.5.79 [Volos-Lattakia, paper on pallets]

OME Wharf - 17 August 1966:

sextant170866.jpg

OME = Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, the original developers of the new town of Middlesbrough from 1830 onwards.
Today the site is a car park for the adjacent Middlesbrough FC Riverside stadium. The tug station on its other side is still there.
This view from the opposite side of the Dock Cut is only half-frame with my old Box Brownie type camera, so gives a somewhat fuzzy view of the vessel and the surrounding wharfage.

Ron

Knew Jimmy Southall of Middlesbrough Estates very well a lovely chap, his story of catching the new vicar in the Hall Gardens with a "Grenade" type trip wire still has me laughing

Ron@?