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50 YEARS AGO TODAY - NAFSIPOROS

PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 4:02 pm
by teesships
News item about events 50 years ago today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-38169898

However, the NAFSIPOROS survived and continued for a further two and a half years until finally wrecked.

Middlesbrough Dock - 23 September 1968:
nafsiporos230968.jpg

.... and a view from my collection (Alex Duncan photo):
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NAFSIPOROS (5417064), Greece, 1287gt, completed Gothenburg 9-1941; commissioned 9-1944
1941 AHUS - 1960 BOTHNIA - 1963 PARMA - 1965 NAFSIPOROS
leaked & wrecked 27.55S/15.40E 5.7.69 [Cagliari-Bombay, fluorspar]

Ron

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - NAFSIPOROS

PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:15 pm
by teesships
... and now 50 YEARS AGO TODAY since I saw her in Middlesbrough Dock - 23 September 1968.

Ron