CRAIOVA and STRATHTAY in Middlesbrough Dock 11.75

50 YEARS AGO TODAY

CRAIOVA (5402849), Romania, 3090gt, completed Galati 1962
BU Sulina 10.89 [Sulina Shipyard]

Middlesbrough Dock - 20 November 1975:
See also within Tyne forum.

Rpn M

50 YEARS AGO TODAY

STRATHTAY (5367843), Peninsular & Oriental SN Co., 10028gt
completed Readhead, South Shields, 5-1962
1962 TREBARTHA - 1975 STRATHTAY - 1978 ZAK -BU Lianyungang 9.1.85

Middlesbrough Dock - 23 November 1975:
Which means Mick's photo was almost certainly taken 22 november as the STRATHTAY had not been there the day before when I recorded the CRAIOVA, and by the 23rd the CITY OF AUCKLAND had come down from the Tyne to replace her.

Ron M