I have received an email from Ian Rae, as follows:
"Late last year I eventually completed the database of Turner's shipping photographs which are held by Tyne & Wear Archives. (I'm a volunteer there)
As industrial photographers they did not only take aerial shots of trials, but covered launches, and internal views from engine rooms to wheelhouses ( from 1948 up until the 1970s').
There are over 20,000 photos, the majority cover Wear built ships, as Hawthorns had their own photographer and Swans used Phillipsons in later years.
But there still quite a lot of interesting views of the Tyne.
I am led to believe that database is now on line at www.twmuseums.org.uk/archives"