mercury_redstone7
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Hello.
Like me a few people here have an interest in our local history in all forms, especially engineering.
The Tees brought us all here and Teesside (Yes Teesside Boro Badge ,it's more than a postcode) has a very rich industrial and heavy engineering history and still sends engineers around the world everyday. my lads are in this game.
I used to post on the old board occasionally a lot of years ago, but have always read and still do today. Lemmy, Norman and XXlShirts may find it a bit of interest and perhaps 1 or 2 others.
This thread is about football and ships built on the Tees on both banks, prior to the wars, they are mainly large fishing vessels, but they were built and in some cases originally named after football teams. They were purchased by the Admiralty as Anti Submarine Trawlers = AST during the wars
I have listed them and provided a link, in some cases it provides the ships history,pictures and its final demise.
There is quite a list built on the north bank, but primarily big cargo vessels with the town name Like Halifax and Sunderland,Manchester Bristol etc but not football related by the looks.
Aston Villa Built 2 in (South Bank Yard) named this, Aston Villa 1933 AST (Pics in and out of Naval Service) ended up in Northern Poland
1937 Aston Villa 1937 AST. Bombed 1940 Trondheim Norway 1940.
Arsenal Arsenal (South Bank Yard) AST. Picture of ship and name visible collided with Polish Destroyer Burza 1940.
Blackburn Rovers 1934 Blackburn Rovers (South Bank Yard) AST Lost unknown 1940 25 miles off Kent coast.
Burnley (South Bank Yard) Burnley Minesweeper 1916 - Mined off (doh !!) Ordford ness Suffolk
Bradford City 3 built on the north banks
Bradford City 1918 (Craig Taylors Stockton on Tees Yard) Bradford City 1918 Pictured ( Mined 1941)
Bradford City 1936 (Furness Shipyard Haverton) Bradford City 1936 Pictured Was torpedoed 1941 German U Boat 68
Bradford City 1910 (Ropner Stockton) Bradford City 1910 Torpedoed 1917 by Austro Hungarian U Boat 28 German U Boat 28
Huddersfield Town 1939 (South Bank Yard) AST Huddersfield Town Seen its service out broke up in 1963 after being renamed Leeds Utd in 1962
Preston North End 1934 (South Bank Yard) AST PNE Stranded on Icelandic Reef 1950 (hell of an ordeal for sailors) Fisherman Bravery
Leicester City 1934 (South Bank Yard) AST Leicester City Stranded in fog near to Orkney
Sheffield Wednesday 1933 (South Bank Yard) AST Sheffield Wednesday Mine Laid By Italian Frogmen in Gibraltar 1942
Stoke City 1935 (South Bank Yard) AST Stoke City Two pictures - one name shown on bow as Stoke City the other showing what these ships looked like gunned up and fitted up for service duty.
Spurs 1933 (South Bank Yard) AST Spurs Pictured it did see its service out
Like me a few people here have an interest in our local history in all forms, especially engineering.
The Tees brought us all here and Teesside (Yes Teesside Boro Badge ,it's more than a postcode) has a very rich industrial and heavy engineering history and still sends engineers around the world everyday. my lads are in this game.
I used to post on the old board occasionally a lot of years ago, but have always read and still do today. Lemmy, Norman and XXlShirts may find it a bit of interest and perhaps 1 or 2 others.
This thread is about football and ships built on the Tees on both banks, prior to the wars, they are mainly large fishing vessels, but they were built and in some cases originally named after football teams. They were purchased by the Admiralty as Anti Submarine Trawlers = AST during the wars
I have listed them and provided a link, in some cases it provides the ships history,pictures and its final demise.
There is quite a list built on the north bank, but primarily big cargo vessels with the town name Like Halifax and Sunderland,Manchester Bristol etc but not football related by the looks.
Aston Villa Built 2 in (South Bank Yard) named this, Aston Villa 1933 AST (Pics in and out of Naval Service) ended up in Northern Poland
1937 Aston Villa 1937 AST. Bombed 1940 Trondheim Norway 1940.
Arsenal Arsenal (South Bank Yard) AST. Picture of ship and name visible collided with Polish Destroyer Burza 1940.
Blackburn Rovers 1934 Blackburn Rovers (South Bank Yard) AST Lost unknown 1940 25 miles off Kent coast.
Burnley (South Bank Yard) Burnley Minesweeper 1916 - Mined off (doh !!) Ordford ness Suffolk
Bradford City 3 built on the north banks
Bradford City 1918 (Craig Taylors Stockton on Tees Yard) Bradford City 1918 Pictured ( Mined 1941)
Bradford City 1936 (Furness Shipyard Haverton) Bradford City 1936 Pictured Was torpedoed 1941 German U Boat 68
Bradford City 1910 (Ropner Stockton) Bradford City 1910 Torpedoed 1917 by Austro Hungarian U Boat 28 German U Boat 28
Huddersfield Town 1939 (South Bank Yard) AST Huddersfield Town Seen its service out broke up in 1963 after being renamed Leeds Utd in 1962
Preston North End 1934 (South Bank Yard) AST PNE Stranded on Icelandic Reef 1950 (hell of an ordeal for sailors) Fisherman Bravery
Leicester City 1934 (South Bank Yard) AST Leicester City Stranded in fog near to Orkney
Sheffield Wednesday 1933 (South Bank Yard) AST Sheffield Wednesday Mine Laid By Italian Frogmen in Gibraltar 1942
Stoke City 1935 (South Bank Yard) AST Stoke City Two pictures - one name shown on bow as Stoke City the other showing what these ships looked like gunned up and fitted up for service duty.
Spurs 1933 (South Bank Yard) AST Spurs Pictured it did see its service out
