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Colliers at Hartlepool

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:12 am
by teesships
Three for the price of one, plus the bonus of an inconvenient telegraph pole!
All built at the same shipyard! Guess where????

FIRESIDE, North Thames Gas Board, 2757gt,
completed S.P.Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland, 5-1942
1942 FIRESIDE - 1962 DYNAMIKOS - 1965 NIKOS V
wrecked 2nm NE Driana LH, near Benghazi 28.12.67 [Varna-Benghazi, bagged cement]
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CAPITOL, North Thames Gas Board, 1558gt,
completed S.P.Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland, 6-1941
BU Willebroek 7.63 [Scrappingco SA]
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BRENT KNOLL (5389308), Central Electricity Generating Board, 1362gt,
completed S.P.Austin & Son, Wear Dock, Sunderland, 7-1950
1950 BRENT KNOLL - 1961 cv to sand suction dredger, 1313gt, - 1961 BRENTFORD - 1961 WIGHTSTONE
BU Grays 8.10.76 [T.W.Ward Ltd]
[suspect conversion would take place as she was about to become the WIGHTSTONE?]
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Ron