(Photo: WSS Teesside Branch Weller Collection)
The INGLEBY CROSS, towing the VASCO, lines up to head into the lock out of Middlesbrough Dock.
INGLEBY CROSS, Tees Towing Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 132gt, completed Bowling 10-1955.
68 GRIBBIN HEAD - 92 TUSKAR ROCK - 11 TRIVA II (now owned in Malta)

Although not a ship I ever saw myself, John Harrower's WILSON LINE, a WSS publication, provides career details for the VASCO.
Ellerman's Wilson Line, Hull, 2878gt, 12.10.1939 launched as VASCO by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool; 12.1939 completed; 20.1.1941 damaged by aerial bombing at Piraeus; 25-27.5.1941 attacked and damaged by enemy aircraft in Mediterranean; 12.12.1948 struck submerged object and beached while off Spurn Head; 7.1.1949 refloated but rebeached near Cleethorpes for temporary repairs; 10.1.1949 refloated and taken to Immingham for repair; 13.2.1956 damaged in collision with INDIAN EXPORTER in Gravesend Reach; 12.6.1963 sold and renamed BROOKFIELD (Greece), 1968 EVANGELOS Z (Cyprus), 21.6.1973 demolition commenced at Split, Yugoslavia.
Ron

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