November 11, 201213 yr Can anyone tell me the name of the last two ships launched at Blyth before the closure of the shipyard? I've got some photos that I would like to identify. Can't find anything on google.
November 11, 201213 yr See if you can match your pix against these Foxyhttp://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.phpFound them on Google!Move your cursor to the top of the pic & info will drop down. Edited November 11, 201213 yr by John W. SNRG
November 12, 201213 yr Author See if you can match your pix against these Foxyhttp://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.phpFound them on Google!Move your cursor to the top of the pic & info will drop down.If you stick them on here foxy i will have a crack at identifying them.Thanks for the help. 11th June 1964.
November 12, 201213 yr The big'un could be the Pacific Princess and the tug boat might be the Alnwick? If you need help identifying any more foxy just ask......................
November 12, 201213 yr Author The big'un could be the Pacific Princess and the tug boat might be the Alnwick? If you need help identifying any more foxy just ask......................It was the dates that were the problem, I've got them now but had I known Old Francis Moore was using this site then I could have saved John and Adam the trouble. I'll certainly keep you in mind for next time though.
November 13, 201213 yr Author If you need any help identifying photos foxy just ask, i will do my best .Here's one then Adam, who or whats behind the screen? I've left a clue in there, Very well known in Bedlington, If you get stuck just get on to Granny Robinsons Crystal Ball.
November 13, 201213 yr Author Either Brian Yarrows or Benny Andrews horse.Am tekkin me ball in and not playin nee mare. Knew as soon as I put it on I'd left too much of its lug showing!
November 13, 201213 yr Author Anyway, back to the Pacific Princess ... she was launched on 11th June 1964.Aye I'd mentioned that in my earlier post. Thanks all the same.
November 13, 201213 yr Am tekkin me ball in and not playin nee mare. Knew as soon as I put it on I'd left too much of its lug showing!I would have said Mr Bedlington himself Tom Miller (Tommy the Egg man).
November 13, 201213 yr http://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.phpMy old man sends a great big thank you for these pics! When I met him he worked for a company called Navire,who had a base in Blyth, and he visited Blyth quite regularly. The pics reminded him of his early days in the shipyards in Gothenburg and he said he could smell the steel! He is, or was, a design engineer - not so much in ships themselves but in the equipment used for handling passengers and cargo. If you've ever taken your car on a ferry there's a good chance that he designed the ramps and hoistable decks. He was also responsible for the system of stacking containers on ferries
November 14, 201213 yr Not sure who the man was but the horse was called Tonto! my father-in-law used to race for the "fortilizer†Am tekkin me ball in and not playin nee mare. Knew as soon as I put it on I'd left too much of its lug showing!
November 14, 201213 yr My old man sends a great big thank you for these pics! When I met him he worked for a company called Navire,who had a base in Blyth, and he visited Blyth quite regularly. The pics reminded him of his early days in the shipyards in Gothenburg and he said he could smell the steel! He is, or was, a design engineer - not so much in ships themselves but in the equipment used for handling passengers and cargo. If you've ever taken your car on a ferry there's a good chance that he designed the ramps and hoistable decks. He was also responsible for the system of stacking containers on ferriesHe needs to get across here and get him to the South Harbour in Blyth 'cos some of them dont know how to work it. They keep dropping them in the dock, or as in one incident a container full of wine was dropped from height onto the dockside. And another was "lost" for months, until a diver fixing a prop on the container ship found it at the bottom of the dock (after the ships prop found it that is ) Edited November 14, 201213 yr by keith
November 14, 201213 yr Not sure who the man was but the horse was called Tonto! my father-in-law used to race for the "fortilizer†It's Brian Yarrow, Vic
November 15, 201213 yr My old man sends a great big thank you for these pics! When I met him he worked for a company called Navire,who had a base in Blyth, and he visited Blyth quite regularly. The pics reminded him of his early days in the shipyards in Gothenburg and he said he could smell the steel! He is, or was, a design engineer - not so much in ships themselves but in the equipment used for handling passengers and cargo. If you've ever taken your car on a ferry there's a good chance that he designed the ramps and hoistable decks. He was also responsible for the system of stacking containers on ferriesCanny Lass.Please tell him, glad to be of service.Back in the early 70s I was part of a team that shot a 16mm film on a large ship being built at Swan Hunter.I was 17 at the time. The smell I most remember was fear! Mine Thank god for HSWA 1974!Can your old man give this guy any tips? Edited November 15, 201213 yr by John W. SNRG
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