EARLY DAYS AT TEES DOCK.

[HSA31]

A view along the dock in 1963 with a ship on No.1 berth and a few of the Dutch dredging craft.

[HSA31]

A Blue Star ship on No.1 and Brocklebank's MALAKAND in 1964.

The Indian JALAZAD waits in Tees Dock in 1964, but with no cranes or cargo she must be awaiting another berth.

[teesships]

The positioning of the forward derricks of the MALAKAND verifies that it was this vessel that Albert Weller also recorded.
See: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=6264

Ron

[northeast]

RHODESIA or SOUTH AFRICA STAR ... by the length of name, the latter?

[shipbroker]

When Lackenby Dock was being built BISC(Ore) had surplus capacity of vessels owing to downturn in steel industry, we asked for permission to lay-up a couple of ships there which took some time to get agreed.....however, I think that they were possibly the Lindisfarne (Souters) and Silvercrag (Silver Line)....but it was a long time ago!

geoff

[HSA31]

Ropner's had the RUSHPOOL and SWIFTPOOL laid up in Tees Dock during 1962 - = apologies for the poor quality photograph.

[shipbroker]

Yes that looks about the right sort of date...I seem to remember that we had one of the smaller ones, perhaps La Colina or Phillipe LD, there as well and in the end there were about 7 ships including the Ropners ones...

geoff

[CLYDEBRAE]

You can see Tees Dock no4 shed under construction in "A view along the dock in 1963".
With the decline in general cargo trade it became a storage shed for chrome ore cargoes, until this trade finished with the closure of British Chrome and Chemicals at Urlay Nook.
It has lain empty for a while but has entered a new lease of life. Bunn Fertiliser Ltd have taken it over and installed a bagging plant to handle urea cargoes. The first cargo of just over 10,000 tonnes arrived on mv "Luebert", IMO 9415167, 20491GT. She arrived having discharged part cargo of urea in Rouen and departed Tees Dock on 18th January.

[northeast]

Takes me right back to BEFORE the Dock was built, on my early ship-spotting trips to M'bro by train from Redcar, passed through the steelworks where there was a 'Warrenby Halt' wooden platform for the workers (probably stopped there only at shift endings) then across to Grangetown, to the right was a large semi-tidal area before the reclaimed land started I suppose on the way down to the QE oil jetty which was the furthest berth down the river (except for Redcar Jetty, which I used to cycle to the end of!). After that, any river views were lost behind the slag mountain north of Grangetown.
Eventually dredgers and other equipment could be seen in the tidal land.
No wonder I feel old .....

[shipbroker]

We used to go birdwatching from Warrenby Halt and walk back across the marshland to the Trunk Road...so yes we are old!

geoff