P & O cargo ship BALLARAT sails from Grangemouth for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane

LETITIA arrives in Quebec on her maiden voyage from Glasgow

Greek liner PATRIS expected to berth at No. 13 Pyrmont, Sydney

LETITIA leaves Quebec for Montreal on her maiden voyage from Glasgow

LETITIA arrives in Montreal on her maiden voyage from Glasgow

Greek liner PATRIS expected to leave No. 13 Pyrmont, Sydney for Piraeus (Greece)

Irish Shipping's IRISH LARCH undocks in Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Tanker ORLANDO docks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Tanker ORLANDO undocks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Shaw Savill's ATHENIC leaves London for New Zealand and Australia via Panama

Shaw Savill Line's ATHENIC leaves London on a voyage to New Zealand via Panama

Greek-owned Liberty-type tramp cargo ship ALKIMOS docks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Wikipedia shows :

Name: Viggo Hansteen
Namesake: Viggo Hansteen
Owner: U.S. War Shipping Administration
Operator: Nortraship
Builder: Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore
Laid down: 18 September 1943
Launched: 11 October 1943
Acquired: 18 October 1943
In service: 21 October 1943
Fate: Sold, 1947
Career
Name: ALKIMOS
Owner: Alkimos Shipping Company
Acquired: 1947
Fate: Wrecked, May 1964
General characteristics (as built)
Type: Type EC2-S-C1 liberty ship[
Tonnage: 7,176 gross register tons (GRT)
10,865 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Displacement: 14,245 long tons (14,474 t)
Length: 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam: 57 ft (17 m)
Draft: 27 ft 8 in (8.43 m) (full)
Propulsion: 2 oil-fired boilers
Three cylinder triple expansion steam engine
2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
1 screw
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range: 17,000 nmi (31,000 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Crew: 41

ALKIMOS was a Greek-owned merchant ship which was wrecked on the coast north of Perth, Western Australia in 1963. A nearby locality was later named after the vessel. The wreck is a popular diving venue, and is also reputed to be haunted, making it of interest to ghost hunters as it is thought also to be a jinxed ship as it has brought a lot of bad luck to people who have gone on the ship itself.

The ship was built during World War II by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards in Baltimore as part of the United States' Liberty ship program and was originally scheduled to be named George M. Shriver.
It was launched on October 11, 1943.[
However, on October 20, the vessel was reassigned to the Norwegian Shipping & Trade Mission, was re-christened Viggo Hansteen and saw war service for about 18 months, primarily in the Mediterranean and was crewed by mariners of various nationalities. It served as a troopship and transported cargo, in convoys that were sometimes attacked by German aircraft and U-boats.

A murder-suicide took place on board Viggo Hansteen in August 1944, while the ship was at Naples (some sources say Piombino); Canadian radio operator Maude Steane is reported to have been shot by another crew member, who then killed himself.

After the war it was sold to a Greek shipping company and renamed ALKIMOS, after a word meaning "strong" and a Greek god, Álkimos.

As ALKIMOS, the ship plied the world's oceans for some two decades.
In March 1963, the vessel was on a voyage from Jakarta to Bunbury when it struck a reef off the Western Australian coast.
It was salvaged and towed to Fremantle, the port city for Perth, where it underwent repairs for two months. After settlement of a dispute concerning payment for the repairs, the ALKIMOS left Fremantle under tow by an ocean-going tug from Hong Kong.

Only a few hours out of port, the tow line gave way and the ALKIMOS was driven onto the shore. Although the ship remained intact, it could not be floated off at that time, and so it was filled with water to secure it in place and left in the charge of an on-board caretaker.
Another tug returned in January 1964 and the ship was refloated, but the planned journey to Manila had hardly begun when the tug was seized at sea by authorities and the ALKIMOS was left anchored.
In May 1964, the vessel broke anchor and was driven onto the Eglinton Rocks near present-day Yanchep.
On this occasion it was more severely damaged, and all thought of salvaging it intact was abandoned.

It was later sold by the owners for scrap. However, in 1969, salvage workers were driven off the wreck by a fire.
One of the salvage workers also reported hearing ghostly noises. After that time, the partly dismantled remains of the ship sat in several metres of water, visible to visitors, but gradually disintegrating.

LETITIA leaves Montreal for Glasgow

Timetable and leaflet for 1961 sailings by side paddle steamer MAID OF THE LOCH on Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond 1961 season steamer service leaflet for MAID OF THE LOCH