Loradore - a general history

Tees Packet No.101, November/December 1989:
Loradore - originally managed by Michalinos & Co. Ltd. In 1964 Ralli Brothers were appointed as managers.
As Thomas A. she was managed by Prodromos Shipping Co. S.A, and as Irene's Banner by Tsakos Shipping & Trading Co.

The following article (and a photograph), appeared in a local newspaper (probably the Northern Echo), in January 1962: 11,000 ton ship rams quay at Lackenby.
The quay at the new deepwater docks at Lackenby has been damaged by a ship before the docks have been put into operation by the Tees Conservancy commission. The damage was caused when the motor vessel Loradore (11,000 tons) collided with the quay after she made an emergency stop because of engine trouble and decided to put into the docks to allow her engineers to make adjustments.

Yesterday divers were called in to investigate the damage to the underwater parts of the ship and the quay. The Loradore left Middlesbrough Dock on Sunday en route for Maracaibo in South America carrying a cargo of 10,00 tons of steel pipes supplied by the South Durham Steel & Iron Co. Slight engine trouble developed on her way up river and it was decided to turn her into the Lackenby docks, which are still under construction and are due to be opened later this year, to correct the trouble.
In doing so she collided with the quay and the impact was so severe that her bows above the water line, and the quay structure, were badly damaged.
The Loradore was built at West Hartlepool by William Gray & Co. in 1958 for the Maritime Shipping & Trading Co. of London.
A spokesman for the local agents, Constantine & Co., said yesterday that the Loradore had been so badly damaged that she would have to go into drydock for repairs as soon as her deck cargo could be unloaded.

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