RANGER APOLLO (6513891), Ranger Fishing Co. Ltd., North Shields, 778gt,
completed by Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, 12-1965.
1973 TURCOMAN (British), 1977 KILSYTH (British), 1983 PUTFORD PROTECTOR (British),
1987 PORT KING, foundered 11-1991.

Newcastle - 28 August 1967 Ron

See also: viewtopic.php?f=99&t=22291

R.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!
That was when I took the photo already reproduced above. Clearly I was at that time standing on the quayside around the point I would be boarding one of the Tyne ferries for a river cruise.

If this had been the first photo I took that day, then that would have been as expected! So, can someone now remind me, explain to me, how I had already taken the photos of STORMONT (viewtopic.php?f=43&t=9240) and CYPRIAN COAST (viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8119) seemingly on board a vessel mid-river and moving up-river passing the Tyne-Tees berths heading towards the bridges?

Ron

Not the best of pictures, but here's another of Ranger Apollo being towed into the river after (I think) engine failure in June 1966.