The Tyne Area Shipping Club

(Website Updated 27th August 2010)

Object: To promote and foster good relations between persons and organisations in the communities of Tyne, Wear and Blyth who are interested in maritime affairs

The Tyne Area Shipping Club was founded in 1974 by a group of like-minded men who shared a love for ships, shipping and all things nautical. Our present membership numbers over 80 people; they hail from various backgrounds mostly connected with maritime occupations - these range from all ranks of deck officers and engineer officers through the ratings having served or serving in merchant ships, offshore support vessels and tugs. River pilots, foyboatmen and so on - a number of our members simply like ships!

The club meets each second Thursday of the month at 1930 hours at the Old Ship public house Harton Village, South Shields - across the road from St Peter's Church. For full address see Meetings page or click Map and get directions.

Each month we have a guest speaker. The topics covered in these talks are refreshingly stimulating and wide-ranging and provide a good basis for discussion and questions - even more in the bar downstairs after the talk. The speakers and subjects are included under meetings.

Club members are encouraged to bring along guests to the meetings. Hopefully this way we can attract new members.

During the course of the year club members enjoy a number of outings, Last year for example these outings included a visit to The Black Sheep Brewery at Masham and on to the city of Ripon for sight-seeing and shopping. A special visit to Souter Lighthouse was arranged and was very interesting. We also made a trip down to Hartlepool to visit the Historic Quayside and the HMS Trincomalee.

Towards Christmas we were to visit Castle Howard for 'Christmas with the family' theme. Unfortunately this had to be cancelled due to the lack of interest shown by members.

If you have any ideas of where we should arrange to go this year - please offer your suggestions via the Comments page

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For a number of years, our Club has met up with our friends of the Liverpool Anchorage Club. This club share similar interests to ours and it is great to meet with these guys and of course 'put the world to rights'

Initially we would alternately travel to Liverpool and they to South Shields respectively to meet up. However, in recent years, with the restriction of driving hours of the coach drivers, we have met at a convenient equidistant place of interest. This has proved to be popular.

This year our joint meeting was to

The Royal Armouries Leeds

on the 9th June 2010

It proved a very popular venue and it seems everyone really enjoyed the day.

More pictures go to the Outings page

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