Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby teesships » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:19 pm

My one and only photo of the reserve fleet at Hartlepool taken with my dad's old camera on 27 July 1961.
This shows (l-r) OBEDIENT, CHEERFUL, COCKATRICE (M29)
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby Whickham » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:47 pm

A few box brownies of my own. Unfortunately no dates, names or pack drill taken at the time. Some time afterwards I have written down the same names as given above by Ron for the first photo.
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby Whickham » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:49 pm

From the other side of the Coal Dock and into the sun (well OK into the light)
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby Whickham » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:50 pm

HMS ALBACORE
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby Whickham » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:55 pm

HMS COCKATRICE again but in a different location. Don't know the one in front. I think the location of the shot TODAY would be, WINGFIELD CASTLE behind me and on my left hand side.
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby brianh » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:16 pm

The bows are of the frigate Loch Tralaig and alongdside Cheerful was Loch More. There were 13 reserve ships at Hartlepool in late June 1961 and this had reduced to 7 by the end of July 1962 and those had all been scrapped by September 1963.
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HMS Mutine

Postby brianh » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:21 pm

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At Hartlepool on 24 June 1961 outboard of Espiegle and Loch Tralaig with Farndale, Tanganyika and Albacore in the background.
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Re: Reserve Fleet at Hartlepool 1961

Postby Whickham » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:39 am

A photo from the Hartlepool Museum Service, originally taken by the Northern Daily Mail and captioned "Three of the ‘mothball’ fleet in the Coal Dock. Their bows are across the entrance to the North Lock. They are possibly the minesweepers PROVIDENCE and ALBACORE, and the frigate LOCH TRALAIG."

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