Boats - Sailing - Ships
Apr. 18, 1967 - The Giant that just Growed and Growed: When you are four years old like Maureen Catten and you have seen ships at the bottom of your street every day since you have been able to toddle the presence of another towering monster causes no excitement. There is far more fun in a ball game with your playmates. But there may be fun and games of a different sort at the bottom of Gerald Street, Wall send-on-Tyne, when on April 25 the giant Shell tanker Narica goes down the slipways. The Tyne has never built a ship like her a giant that just growed and growed'. She started off at 90, 000 tons when the order was placed two years ago. Then Shell International Marine asked for 19, 000 tons to be added. Now, when Mrs. C.S. Hatfield, wife of the Shell Group's finance co-ordinator, launches Narica the tanker will have a river record of 115, 250 tons deadweight. The fun and games will come in getting the 870ft. hull safely turned round in the 1, 200ft wide river. And even Maureen and her friends, Neil Atkinson, Christine Dale, and tony Mackinson, will stop their ball game to see river history made
