Blyth Shipyard

[John Fox (foxy)]

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.

[John White]

See if you can match your pix against these Foxy

http://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.php

Found them on Google!

Move your cursor to the top of the pic & info will drop down.

Edited November 11, 2012 by John W. SNRG

[Adam Hogg]

If you stick them on here foxy i will have a crack at identifying them.

[John Fox (foxy)]

See if you can match your pix against these Foxy

http://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.php

Found 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.

[Malcolm Robinson]

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......................

[John Fox (foxy)]

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.

[Malcolm Robinson]

No problem................

[Adam Hogg]

If you need any help identifying photos foxy just ask, i will do my best .

[John Fox (foxy)]

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.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Whoa.........don't mess with granny Robinson foxy...........

[Malcolm Robinson]

Wouldn't be some sort of motor bycyclette?

[Malcolm Robinson]

French Onion man?

[mercuryg]

A horse.............

[Keith Scantlebury]

Either Brian Yarrows or Benny Andrews horse.

[John Fox (foxy)]

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!

[Keith Scantlebury]

Ha, Brian Yarrow

You can have ya ball , it's borst anyway.

[Symptoms]

Anyway, back to the Pacific Princess ... she was launched on 11th June 1964.

[John Fox (foxy)]

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.

[Symptoms]

Sorry ... didn't pick-up on it.

[Adam Hogg]

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).

[Canny lass]

http://www.aboutblyt...hipbuilding.php

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 ferries

[Vic Patterson]

Not sure who the man was but the horse was called Tonto! my father-in-law used to race for the "fortilizerâ€

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!

[Keith Scantlebury]

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 ferries

He 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, 2012 by keith

[Keith Scantlebury]

Not sure who the man was but the horse was called Tonto! my father-in-law used to race for the "fortilizerâ€

It's Brian Yarrow, Vic

[John White]

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 ferries

Canny 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, 2012 by John W. SNRG