50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

From South Gare to Stockton

50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby teesships » Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:58 pm

CITY OF KHARTOUM (5073791), Ellerman Lines Ltd., Liverpool, 9955gt,
completed by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, 1-1946.
1968 BENALLIGIN (British), BU Kaohsiung 27.9.72 [Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co Ltd]

Middlesbrough Dock, 29 July 1964:
060203cofkhartoumx2.jpg
060203cofkhartoumx1.jpg
(The first view is noted as being from the deck of the CLAN FORBES but under what circumstances I had been invited on board I now simply have no idea!!)

Ron
teesships
 
Posts: 10531
Joined: Sun May 13, 2012 7:47 pm
Location: Middlesbrough

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby teesships » Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:22 pm

A somewhat "fogged" image of her as the BENALLIGIN in Smith's Drydocks on the Tees on 13 June 1968:
0502benalligin.jpg
Ron
teesships
 
Posts: 10531
Joined: Sun May 13, 2012 7:47 pm
Location: Middlesbrough

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby teesships » Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:10 am

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

An unfogged companion view of BENALLIGIN in dry-dock - 13 June 1968:
benalligin130668.jpg
Ron
teesships
 
Posts: 10531
Joined: Sun May 13, 2012 7:47 pm
Location: Middlesbrough

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby northeast » Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:52 am

Presumably that's just a chimney on the left in SD colours?
northeast
Site Admin
 
Posts: 6564
Joined: Sat May 12, 2012 5:13 pm
Location: East Yorkshire

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby teesships » Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:43 pm

Yes, George, it was a long-standing feature of the yard. Presumably it had some function, but I don't know what!

Ron
teesships
 
Posts: 10531
Joined: Sun May 13, 2012 7:47 pm
Location: Middlesbrough

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby Whickham » Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:45 pm

May have been the pump room for the dry docks? Just a thought.
Dave
Whickham
 
Posts: 8643
Joined: Sat May 12, 2012 9:10 pm
Location: Whickham, Gateshead

Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - CITY OF KHARTOUM

Postby teesships » Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:36 pm

50 YEARS AGO TODAY!

BENALLIGIN in Middlesbrough Dock - 10 April 1970:
benalligin100470xcopyneg.jpg

Although this is a new scan from an original negative you may notice the quality is not as good as many normal new scans. That is because 50 years ago I used up two-thirds of a film photographing a friend's wedding, and the final third covering a work's accident. Sandwiched in between were two ship photos. Quite soon I realised that somewhere along the line I had lost those two original negatives .... so starting that nasty habit that has lasted more than 50 years! However, prints had been produced from them so off I went to the camera shop and asked for copy negatives to be made. This is what I've had to use these 50 years later and I'm sure there would have been better reproduction in the modern day and age. However, they continue a valued record of my sightings back than.

Ron
teesships
 
Posts: 10531
Joined: Sun May 13, 2012 7:47 pm
Location: Middlesbrough


Return to The Tees

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 49 guests

cron