New cargo liner SIDONIA handed over by builders to Anchor Line of Glasgow

Greek-owned Liberty-type tramp cargo ship ALKIMOS undocks 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.

Anchor Line's new ship SIDONIA on her maiden voyage from Rotterdam to and at London

ROTTERDAM towards and at LONDON

0100  Starboard side to quay.   All Company and Port Regulations strictly observed.   Continuous gangway watch, fire and security patrol maintained.   Moorings tended.

0400  Cloudy, fine and clear.  Light airs, force 1.   Barometer 29/65     Air temperature 49°

0600  All Bridge and Navigation Gear tested.   Steering gear and whistle …? …..

0700  Pilot M.B.Tegelaar on board. 

0734  Bridge and Engine Room clocks synchronised.  Master's orders and Pilot's advice.

0756  Let go for'd.

0757  Let go aft.

0759  Slow ahead.   Helm and engine.

0800  Light airs, force 1.  Barometer 29/70.  Air temperature 50°

0802  Let go after tug.

0803  Let go for'd tug.

0812  Waalhaven Harbour.

0920  Poortershaven abeam to starboard.

0932  No. 4 Beacon abeam.

0946  Hook.

1018  RFA (Rang full away /rang full ahead) on passage.  Maas buoy bearing 329° distant 1 mile.

1020  Log streamed.

1100  Course 249°

1130  Crew wearing lifejackets exercised at boat and fire drill.  All LSA and FFA (… = Life saving appliances and fire fighting appliances) examined.

1200  Course 261°  Distance run 27 miles. Slight sea and low swell, overcast, fine and clear.  Wind NW (… = coming from the North West) force 3.   Barometer 29/75   Air temperature 51°

1207  Green wreck buoy bearing 171°T distant 1.2 miles °  (Remainder of line ????? is unreadable)

1300  Course 249°

1400  Course 263°   Light airs force 1, sea smooth force 1, Barometer 29/70, Air temperature 55° 

1448  GALLOPER LIGHTVESSEL bearing 353°T distance 3 miles

1457  GALLOPER LIGHTVESSEL bearing 037°T distance 4.1 miles

1500  Course 320°  

1551  SUNK LIGHTVESSEL bearing 290°distance 1 mile   Master's orders     Engines Half Ahead    EOP ( .. = what is this ????)   Approaching Pilot Cutter.

1600  Light airs force 1, Sea smooth, force 1, Barometer 29/64, Air temperature 56°

1604 ½  Master's orders and Pilot's advice.   Half ahead, helm and engines at Master's Orders and Pilot's Advice as per movement book.

1720  MID BARROW LIGHTVESSEL abeam to port    

1741  West Barrow buoy abeam to starboard

1800  Light airs, force 1.   Barometer 29/68   Air temperature 55°

1801  No.1 Sea Reach Buoy     Pilot Cairns disembarked.

1930 ½  Tilbury Landing Stage abeam to starboard.

1953  Stoneness Buoy abeam

2000  Light airs, force 1.   Barometer 29/69   Air Temperature 52°

2045  Tug SUN V fast for'd.

2051  Margaret Ness Point abeam to starboard

2113 ½  Vessel entering lock

2112  Lines ashore for'd and aft

2120  Vessel secure.

2140 ½  Vessel clear of lock.

2142  Vessel passing through oil in dock.

2211  Vessel secure for'd and aft, starboard side to quay.

2212  RWFE (.. = Rang finished with engines).   All Company and Port Regulations strictly complied with.   Continuous gangway.

2400  Starboard side to quay.   Light airs, force 1.   Barometer 29/72    Air Temperature 49°

0200  Kidde Marine Smoke Detector run continuously.

Draught sailing                       Draught arriving

Fw'd  10' 03”                         Fw'd  10' 03”

Aft     20' 03”                         Aft     20' 03”

Mid   15' 03”                         Mid    15' 03”

Regulation Lights lit from Sunset to Sunrise

ZUIDERKRUIS leaves Sydney for Wellington, Tahiti, Miami and New York

New Royal Navy Frigate HMS Brighton undocks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

She was one of a 9-ship class of "Rothesay class" anti-submarine frigates.

Ore carrier RHINE ORE docks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

David MacBrayne's KING GEORGE V leaves Fort William on an excursion cruise to Iona

KING GEORGE V landing passengers by motor boat at the jetty at Iona.

Iona Abbey with the Isle of Mull in the background

David MacBrayne's KING GEORGE V due to arrive at Iona from Fort William

KING GEORGE V landing passengers by motor boat at the jetty at Iona.

Iona Abbey with the Isle of Mull in the background

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David MacBrayne's KING GEORGE V due to arrive at Fort William after a cruise to Iona

KING GEORGE V landing passengers by motor boat at the jetty at Iona.

Iona Abbey with the Isle of Mull in the background

Shaw Savill's SOUTHERN CROSS leaves Southampton for a 76-days Round-the-World cruise

Clan Line's CLAN MACILWRAITH docks in Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Ore carrier RHINE ORE undocks at Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Clan Line's CLAN MACTAVISH docks in Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

Clan Line's CLAN MACILWRAITH undocks in Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow