HMS Hood leaving Clydebank

HMS Hood being towed from the builder's yard at Clydebank, which probably dates this photograph at 1920. The photograph may well have been taken from the cab of one of the shipyard cranes.


There's a fine photograph of her fitting out here.

Sunderland, 28th. January 2012

Cable repair ship C S Sovereign

Shipping on the Tyne 21st. January 2012

 HMS Tyne at anchor near the mouth of the Tyne

 Ferry City of Paris entering the Tyne

 Passing Union Quay, North Shields

 Banff trawler Vision III alongside Union Quay, North Shields

 Fraserburgh trawler New Dawn alongside Union Quay, North Shields

 Fraserburgh trawler New Dawn alongside Union Quay, North Shields

Whitby trawler Success in North Shields fish quay

Pilot launch Collingwood

Seaham Harbour, New Year's Day 2012

 M.V. Arklow Rival

 M.V. Lyrika from Lithuania

 Inshore fishing boat Hahnenkamm

Northumbrian coble Boy's Own

Sunderland Docks, 29th. December 2011

Atlantis multi-function pontoon vessel

Jan Steen, dredger

Tug Osprey Boxer

Shipping in the Tyne 17th. December 2011

Russia cargo ship Grumant entering theTyne

 The Cypriot-registered Helas dropping the pilot

...... and a fishing boat trailing a blizzard of gulls. The crew must be cleaning the catch on their way into North Shields fish Quay....

Shipping on the River Wear 9th. December 2011

Tug Lydia D

Fisheries Protection Vessel Vigilant