From Harold Appleyard

I had been browsing an excellent shipping website "Riversea" and on viewing some of the excellent photographs I came across the picture below. As I always try and do I contacted the webmaster to seek the photographers permission to use his photographs on the Bowater website. The photographer, Harold Appleyard contacted me and gave me permission which I was very grateful for ,he also told me that he had and was willing to lend me several slides that he has of the Bowater ships after they were sold out of the fleet. Here they are after I have had them transferred onto CD. Thanks very much Harold.
The motorship Alexandra ex-Gladys Bowater photographed by Harold whilst on holiday in Piraeus 1984.In 1977 the ship had a servere fire onboard which gutted the accommodation she was deemed a constructive total loss but amazingly was rebuilt and put back to sea.
In this view of the ship the name "Gladys Bowater" can clearly be seen on the bow.
Get the hankies out to dry those tears!! This is the motorship Kretan Spirit ex-Constance Bowater, discharging at Hartlepool in 1974.How quickly that beautiful green and cream paintwork can fall into disrepair once it has fallen into foreign flag ownership.
Bowater house flag visible on bow.
m.v Wimpey Sealab seen sailing past South Shields as she leaves the Tyne in 1975.
Still carring some of her original cargo handling equipment. She looks a far cry from the ship I crawled of in Esjberg in January 2003.
The "Sealab" at Hartlepool, note that aft anchor hawse pipe has been covered over.
m.v Pholas ex-Wimpey Sealab, ex-Elizabeth Bowater photographed at Hull in 1991, cargo gear all gone,hawse pipe plated over later type of lifeboat but you can still see she was a Bowater ship.
Thanks again Harold, fantastic.
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