CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

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CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

Postby teesships » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:44 pm

Newcastle owned, Sunderland built, on the Tees (Eston Jetty) on 25 July 1967.
CHEVIOT (5069829), Bamburgh Sg Co Ltd, Newcastle, 13082gt,
completed Pickersgill, Southwick, Sunderland, 3-1961
1961 CHEVIOT - 77 DAPO TRADER - 84 TRADER -
BU Setubal 1.7.84.
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Re: CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

Postby northeast » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:28 pm

You seem to have managed to get 'on the watter' a lot in those early days Ron.
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Re: CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

Postby teesships » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:40 am

Yes, didn't do too badly from time to time. Part of it was "perks" of the job as one of the occasional treats after starting work with TCC was to be asked to go out on the weekly wages run up the river, and I did that a handful of times in the first two or three years.
However, I think the trips in 1967, there were two of them only two days apart, was at the time we had a pleasure craft on the Tees (CAPTAIN COOK II???) running excursion trips. Sadly, that didn't last long. If my memory is correct, the 25 July 1967 was a trip I organised for a party from our church .... maybe there were so many of us back then we needed the second trip on the 27th!
Whatever, both were quite good trips photographically, even if (as previously stated) not everything in sight was recorded on film.
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Re: CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

Postby teesships » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:59 pm

I mentioned that one of the "perks" of working with TCC was to go out on the wages run and I note my first such trip was 13 August 1964, only two days after starting, going out on the TEES CONSERVATOR. In those days wages were paid in good old £sd and we had to visit all the individual river craft where-ever they were located in the river. Can't now remember the starting point for the trips (might have been Transporter Landing as have vague recollection of walking along from Queen's Square carrying briefcases full of cash - no bodyguard, etc., and the Chief Wages Clerk was smaller than myself!). Whatever, during the trip we ended up at the Graving Dock for a steaming hot mug of strong Oxo (which, sorry to say, was not, and is not, one of my favourite drinks!). For what it is worth, I have a note of another wages trip on 25 February 1965, and a trip on the old WILTON on 18 May 1965, with another wages run exactly a week later, 25th. I have a note of about a further 6 trips in the next 18 months, but I think they all stopped with the integration of TCC into the new Tees and Hartlepools Port Authority from 1 January 1967.
Over the intervening years there have been occasional runs on the river, some of them were work related, but mostly organised on behalf of the Ship Society. After the first one or two wages trips I always made sure I had my camera of the day with me!

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Re: CHEVIOT - 25 July 1967

Postby teesships » Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:15 pm

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

Rescanned from original negative (although does not seem to make much difference from previous image above!)
Cargo Fleet Wharf - 25 July 1967:
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