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Orenda Bridge (launched 1971)


The Orenda Bridge ore carrier ship was built at the North Sands shipyard of Doxford & Sunderland S.B. & E. Co. in Sunderland, for Houlder Bros. & Co. Ltd., London . The ship was launched on the 3rd of November 1971. The ship was decommissioned and broken up in 1985. 

Ships North Sands Shipyard
from TWAM (flickr)
'Orenda Bridge' on sea trials

Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from TWAM (flickr)
Sea trials of the bulk carrier 'Orenda Bridge'

Pinned by Simon Cotterill
North Sands Shipyard
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North Sands Shipyard

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