Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

News Event

Sunday, March 17, 1957 @ 1000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		BARON KILMARNOCK (1953-1957 Oil products tanker 547 feet long of Hugh Hogarth & Co. / Baron Line, Glasgow : 1979 scrapped) Own Page

Hogarth's tanker BARON KILMARNOCK broadcasts that she is in distress with engine trouble
Port of RegistryArdrossan (Scotland, U.K.)
Net Tonnage6,427
Gross Tonnage11,810
Deadweght Tonnage16,875

   The Glasgow owned Hugh Hogarth / Baron Line tanker

BARON KILMARNOCK broadcast that she was in distress

with engine trouble.


   She reported her position as 50 miles north-west of

Terschelling, Netherlands, and on passage light-ship

from Oslo (Norway) to Texas (USA).


   The Dutch salvage tug HOLLAND of  NV Schheepvaart

Mij G. Doeksen & Zonen attended from Harlingen and

stood by the tanker whose crew were attempting to make repairs.

  

    BARON KILMARNOCK was built in 1953 by the Caledon

Shipyard at Dundee and is registered in Ardrossan, Scotland.