Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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Thursday, January 4, 1968 @ 1500
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		ELKHOUND (1966- Dog-class Tug Pennant No A 162 of Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, London) Own Page

RMAS tug ELKHOUND tows water tanker SPA from Greenock to Ardrossan Roadstead
Ship's locationRoadstead at Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)Port of RegistryLondon (England, U.K.)
Arrived fromGreenock (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Gross Tonnage152
Master of vessel on arrivalKerr

The RMAS tug ELKHOUND (tugmaster Kerr)

towed the water tanker SPA from Greenock to

 the roadstead off Ardrossan Harbour, arriving

 about 1500, then the Ardrossan tug SEAWAY

 met them at the roadstead and both tugs towed

 SPA to Ardrossan Harbour and into the

Ardrossan Dockyard, arriving at 1535.

   ELKHOUND, on being released, left Ardrossan

Harbour at 1610 to return to Greenock.