These wonderful photographs were recovered from a skip when the Haverton Hill shipyard drawing office was demolished many years ago. All are of Haverton Hill shipyard or it’s products. Courtesy of Mike Potts. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
One shows the oil rig being floated down the tees . It was finished off out from Redcar if my memory serves me right. I am assuming it was the rig built about 67 or 68.I worked there as plumber for a few years when I was 21 until I came to NZ age 25.
Hi, my name is Alan Green it’s great to see these pictures and show them to my grandchildren I live in Australia not far from where Captian Cook landed;. I look over the National Park to the headland he stepped ashore on. I served my apprenticeship at the yard in the fifties. My grandfather was Arthur Clark, my uncles were Norman and Dennis Clark. Granddad was a joiner, Norman was a draughtman and Dennis a plater. My cousin is Eric Rowley he was an apprentice fitter and turner. I believe Keith Pearson [Pixie] and I were the only two apprentices to go to sea in our year. I believe Keith joined Port Line, I was in dry dock in Singapore as a engineering officer for the Australian National Line, the ship was the Alnwick Castle built at the Hunters yard at Newcastle [Wallsend]. At the time a Port Line ship was in the dock. I went down to see if any of the engineers knew Keith. It turned out that I had just missed him as he had just left to go on leave in the UK. I am nearly 74 so photographs like this really help to explain to my children and grandchildren what life was like in the North East [Billy Elliot helped with my daughter]. My father worked for Dorman Long and worked on the fabrication of the Sydney harbour bridge which makes my grandchilren smile when I tell them of their heritage. His name was William Green [Bill] he lived at Portrack when he was first married, my mother was Agnes May [formally Bedford]. I believe his father lived nearby, also named William. I am not sure but my mother when she visited us in Australia brought some pictures of sailing ships on the Tees the caption read ‘the last of the sails of the Green Shipping Line’. I have tried to find leads into the line but cannot make any positive connections. If anybody knows my family it would be great help to finish off the family tree and the connections with the Tees, I believe my grandmother on the Green side was born in Croft.
My eldest son has carried on the family tradition, he is a chief engineer with an Australian shipping company. My wife Anne is from the Raine family, Bob Raine and Betty Raine. Bob worked as a Blacksmith with Head Wrightsons and Betty was a catering officer for the Thornaby schools, both served as Petty oficers in the RN. Consequently the sea is in our childrens blood – thanks for the photo’s in addition I served my Nation Service at Middleton St George and your other articles on the station flooded my memories. As a child I lived in Grove Hill and remember those stricken aircraft coming home nearly knocking off our chimmey pots. My mother used to say ‘poor beggars, I hope they make it’. I do not know which airstrip they were heading for, I used to believe Thornaby but it may have been Croft, MSG? As a child I can still remember the Spitfires on the emergency landing strips on the way to Seaton Carew and British West Hartlepool Thanks Alan
I am looking for a couple of ships pictures – Har Addir and Har Saggi
The ships were built in 1968 at Haverton Hill..
I ask if you have any images of these ships under construction
Heartfelt thanks
Moses
I have a picture of the Har Saggi when it was finished – not it’s “official” launch but when it left the yard.
I thank you Sue. I would like to see your photo of the ship Har Saggi. Thank you Moshe.
I have a video of the Har Saggi under construction taken from a Cine film if you would like to see it ?
hello how are you? I am very interested the movie har saggi
thank you.
A bit of googling shows that the ship in one of the pictures, the Haverton, was a bulk carrier built at the Furness yard in Haverton in 1968. The name came from its owners the Haverton shipping company of London, not from the place where it was built. The ship was broken up for scrap in 1983.
Love the fact that these pictures where recovered from a skip and that they would never have been seen if they hadn’t been saved, can anybody shed any light on what the pictures show? They look like some major ship building projects.