TENO

TENO

Postby teesships » Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:16 pm

On 10 May 1967 I noted the name of one ship in Middlesbrough Dock. This was the middle of the week in the days before I had a car, and long before I fairly automatically had a camera with me. I suspect I simply decided to trot along there in my lunch-hour - or I may even have gone there on "official business" with the Dock by then being part of the new that year THPA empire.

But that one ship was certainly one worth seeing and when I reported in afterwards to the late Ray Counter as the then editor of Tees Packet it sent him down memory road:
From Tees Packet - Issue 22, May 1967:
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(click on this thumbnail image to enlarge)

I was reminded of this sighting by seeing this excellent photo of her under her final name of ELJES on a Facebook page recently. Source of photo not given:
ELJES from Facebook 1220.jpg

ELJES (5355216), Finland, 2506gt, completed Craig, Taylor & Co., Stockton, 8-1917
1917 FIRTREE - 1920 MAINDY FOREST - 1921 USKSIDE - 1932 AGNE - 1951 ORVAR - 1952 HANNA - 1962 TENO -
1967 ELJES - BU Gothenburg 12.68 [Firma Skrot & Avfall] - part made into a barge 1970

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Re: TENO

Postby northeast » Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:47 pm

Good story, Ron and a nice reminder of dear Ray Counter.
We have her of course on Tees-built now
http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.ph ... el=FIRTREE
and we can be left to wonder if this 53m lighter might even be still in existence!
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