Evening All,
From my first post it has been interesting to see some of the other posts about the number of times we are all on the site and all are welcome.
What many do not know of may even remember is that the rivers Blyth,Tyne.Wear and Tees are steeped in Maritime history.
I myself can recall seeing up to 8/10 ships all at anchor waiting to enter the Tyne, the Tyne was famous for shipbuilding and coal export as other rivers had there own speciality.
Who twenty years ago would ever think we would be 'importing coal', who would think from more than twenty drydocks we would now have only one and no shipbuilding.
On my own family side my father was a tug boat skipper, my grandfather was a tug engineman, my great grandfather was also a tug boat skipper and like many others on this site who also will have past family associated with the rivers.
My whole point in answering the question why does the North East have so many posts on this site is very simply 'we all have sea in the blood' and big or small we just simply still love our shipping, and lets not forget our Scandinavian friends as almost 90% of us here on the east coast will have 'Viking blood' in the family somewhere!.
:-)