50 YEARS AGO TODAY - 9 March 1963 - NYHOLT

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NYHOLT, Norway, 10358gt, completed Amsterdam 6-1951. BU Mutsure 22.3.65 [Matsukura Kaiji KK] (less than 14 years!)

Co-incidentally, both the NYHOLT and GLENLYON were built by Nederlandsche D&SB, Amsterdam, and both had extremely short lives.

Middlesbrough Dock - 9 March 1963 (as was common practice back then, an oil tanker in dock in the middle of the town!):

Ron