News EventSaturday, March 14, 1959 @ 0800DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate |
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Ross & Marshall's Clyde Puffer / Lighter fleet employment around 14 March 1959 |
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STORMLIGHT On Tuesday 10th March at Prince’s Dock, Glasgow she had loaded bags of malt for Bruichladdich (for the account of Bruichladdich Distillery) and then shifted to the nearby Queen’s Dock where she loaded bunker coal at the coaling crane. STORMLIGHT then left Queen’s Dock for Bruichladdich. Wednesday 11th was very stormy with heavy seas and the vessel put into Campbeltown for shelter and remained there until 1000 on Thursday 12th when she left to resume her passage around the Mull of Kintyre to Bruichladdich, arriving late that evening. Friday 13th she began discharging at the pier but had to stop discharging due to the heavy seas. Working all day on Saturday 14th she discharged her cargo, and lay at Bruichladdich overnight and next morning, Sunday 15th, left for Glenarm (Northern Ireland) where she would load Limestone Dust for Glasgow.
MOONLIGHT Thursday 12th she had loaded Limestone Dust at Glenarm (Northern Ireland) and left for Glasgow and arrived at Queen’s Dock late on Friday 13th. Saturday 14th discharged her cargo and she shifted to the coaling crane and loaded bunker coal. That night and the next day, Sunday 15th, she spent in Glasgow. Monday 16th MOONLIGHT shifted to the nearby Prince’s Dock where she loaded bags of malt for the Distillery at Port Ellen (Isle of Islay) and then left on passage and arrived on Tuesday 17th and commenced discharging at 1300.
SEALIGHT On Friday 13th she was in King George V Dock, Glasgow and loaded Barley for the Distillery at Port Ellen (Isle of Islay) and then shifted upriver to Queen’s Dock where she loaded coal for her bunkers (like most puffer lighters of the time she was powered by a coal fired steam engine) and then left for Port Ellen where she arrived on Sunday 15th and began discharging the next day.
WARLIGHT In the afternoon of Friday 6th March she was at Troon Harbour (Firth of Clyde) and loaded a cargo of coal for Bruichladdich (Isle of Islay) for the account of Bruichladdich Distillery Company, and also loaded coal for her bunker and then left on passage to Bruichladdich. Unable to manage in the heavy seas on 7th March WARLIGHT had to divert to Campbeltown for shelter, and there she remained until Thursday 12th March. At 0900 that morning she left Campbeltown to make passage to Islay but found it was too difficult and returned to Campbeltown at 1400. Friday 13th March she again left Campbeltown at 0900 but again had to return. Saturday 14th March she left Campbeltown and finally resumed her passage and arrived at Bruichladdich on Sunday 15th and commenced discharging on Monday afternoon.
POLARLIGHT On Wednesday 11th March she was at Troon Harbour (Firth of Clyde) and loaded a cargo of coal for Bellanoch (on the Crinan Canal) for the account of Colin McPhail Company and also filled her bunkers with coal and left on passage to Bellanoch. She arrived Thursday 12th March and commenced discharging, continuing on Friday and finishing on Saturday 14th March. On Sunday 15th she turned around in the canal and returned to the lock in Ardrishaig and entered Loch Fyne and made her way to Furnace, a small township on the Loch to load an 85-ton cargo of Granite Chips for account of William Sim Company.
LIMELIGHT On Friday 13th March she was at Furnace on Loch Fyne and loaded Crushed Granite for Glasgow for account of William Sim Company. Saturday 14th she discharged her cargo at Custom House Quay, Glasgow, then shifted to Queen’s Dock to load coal bunkers and then moved downriver to Greenock where, on Sunday 15th she was on a days hire by J & J Denholm Ltd.
STARLIGHT On Tuesday 10th March she was at Rothesay Dock, Clydebank and loaded a cargo of coal for the Gas Works at Dunoon. At 1300 on 11th she was discharging at Dunoon and, later, returned to Greenock for coal bunkers. After bunkering she returned to Dunoon and on Thursday 12th completed discharging the coal. Now empty she returned to Greenock where from 13th to 16th she had boiler cleaning and repairs to the ceiling in her hold.
SKYLIGHT Friday 13th March she was in Queen’s Dock, Glasgow and loaded a cargo of coal for the Gas Works in Campbeltown and left on passage. Saturday 14th she sheltered in Rothesay and then left for Campbeltown arriving on Sunday 15th. She discharged her cargo on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th and on 17th left on passage to Furnace (Loch Fyne) where, on 18th, loaded 110-tons of Crushed Granite for the account of William Sim Company of Glasgow. |