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by Jerry » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:28 pm
The story of the Tyne-Norway ferries 1864-2001 is told in Ferry Tales by Dick Keys and Ken Smith, a nice little book published by Newcastle Libraries (Tyne Bridge Publishing) in 1999. £5-99. It may be in other libraries local studies departments.
There were two Vegas, two Ledas, two Jupiters etc. There are lots of pictures of the vessels, which until 1928 docked at the Quayside in central Newcastle - thereafter at the Tyne Commission quay in North Shields.
Tyne Bridge have done other good books including one on Palmer's, The Lost Shipyards of the Tyne, Turbinia, Mauretania, from Walker to the World, Black Diamonds etc.
Jerry