BONAVENTURE

by **TEESMAN** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:01 pm

BONAVENTURE at Corporation Quay Stockton 04.10.76,the identity of this ship/barge has been a mystery,maybe someone out there knows something about it??

: Photo Michael Green

: Photo Michael Green

by **teesships** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:57 pm

Like Mick, this is a long-standing mystery it would be great to see resolved!

I covered one theory about her previous identity in one of my Short Sea World articles in Sea Breezes during the 1980s, as follows:

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Suffice to say, from ensuing correspondence either from this article or a similar posting on TEESSHIPS (which, however, I think must still be stuck in my old computer!!), it became quite clear the TEUNIKA sank, and remained sunk, so the BONAVENTURE was certainly not her!

Ron

by **northeast** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:13 pm

TEUNIKA, looks different from Michael's photos but if she had been converted to a canteen ship, could have been much altered?

: Photo by Charlie Hill

p.s. now I have looked in 'Gruno 1937-2002' Anderiesse & Spurling .... I would trust their research.
She carried the names 1936 WILHELMINA, 1948 VELOCITAS, 1949 WILLEM, 1952 MARKEN as cargo not a canteen barge, 1954 TEUNIKA and recorded as sunk as Ron mentions.
So it confirms that link is not good.
Will ask with my Dutch contacts re BONAVENTURE.