Wallsend Slipway

[Nighttrucker]

Can anyone hazard a guess as to the date of this photograph please.

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[Whickham]

This version is a bit clearer.

[teesships]

The fact that all the vessels seem to be straight-stemmed suggests to me we are looking at a scene from the 1920s.

Ron M

[northeast]

Pity that none are clearly identifiable. The Ellerman does look rather like one of the WW1 standard types. The freighter at the top has distinctive funnel marks but whose?

[Hornbeam]

Top vessel Brocklebank possibly? Before WW2 the RAF took photographs of Port installations mind you so did the Luftwaffe using aircraft with civilian markings.

[Whickham]

Is that not a Bucknall funnel, centre ship of three next to the hammerhead crane.

[northeast]

Well spotted Dave, the well-known 'Bucknall teeth'. The top ship isn't a Brock, looks like a red star on white over blue, or some similar combination.
The outer tier vessel, possibly United Africa.

[Nighttrucker]

the name stamp on the reverse of this 12x10 photo reads PHILIPSON & SON LTD 20 OXFORD STREET Newcastle NE Coast exhibition Official Photographer.

[Davenz]

The funnel markings of the top ship look like those of Lawther, Latta.

[northeast]

Of course, the Nitrate Producers fleet.