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Sunday, February 24, 1963 @ 1050 		VERMONT (1962-1977 Oil products tanker 169.7m overall of K/S Harwi ( Rolf Wigan's Rederi A/S Bergen, Norway : 1984 scrapped Hangpu China) Own Page

Tanker VERMONT arrives in Ardrossan Harbour from Stanlow via Belfast
Arrived fromStanlow (on Manchester Ship Canal, England, U.K.) via Belfast (Northern Ireland) Port of RegistryMonrovia (Liberia)
Arrived in berth12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Net Tonnage7,201
Sailing forFaslane (Gare Loch, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Gross Tonnage12,416
Sailed from berth12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Deadweght Tonnage20,778
Master of vessel on arrivalB Coen
Draught aft on arrival22' 06"
Cargo carried on arrivalPetrol & Avtur
Outward cargoKerosene ROB (ROB = Remaining on board)
Draught aft on sailing19' 06"
Master of vessel on sailingB Coen
Ships agentT L Duff & Company, 13 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan Tel 29 and 40

 

   Steel & Bennie tugs STRONGBOW (tugmaster A McInnes)

and WRESTLER (tugmaster E Docherty) had travelled

from Greenock and arrived at ocean tanker VERMONT

which was waiting in Ardrossan Roadstead.   STRONGBOW

attached her tow rope to VERMONT’s bow and WRESTLER

attached her rope to the tanker’s stern.

   The tugs, towing VERMONT from the Roadstead, passed

through the Ardrossan Harbour entrance and berthed the

tanker at berth 12 Ocean Tanker berth at 1050am.

   At 1110am when VERMONT was all fast at the berth

the Harbour Pilot released both tugs and they left Ardrossan

to make their 28 mile passage back to Victoria Harbour

in Greenock.