Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

List Arrivals, Sailings and Events


What/When Ship

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
BENALDER (1949-1968 General cargo liner 475 feet long of Ben Line / William Thomson & Company, Edinburgh) Own Page

Ben Line's BENALDER from Bangkok left Penang August 1

Port of RegistryLeith (Scotland, UK)
Net Tonnage4,665
Gross Tonnage7,877

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
BENLOMOND (1957-1977 General cargo liner 508 feet long 17 knots of William Thomson's Ben Line, Leith) Own Page

Ben Line's BENLOMOND from Hamburg left Singapore August 1

Port of RegistryLeith
Net Tonnage6,001
Gross Tonnage10,325
Deadweght Tonnage12,010

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
BENVEG (1951-1962 Coastal cargo liner 224 feet long of Ben Line, Leith) Own Page

Ben Line's BENVEG left Singapore August 1 for Bangkok

Port of RegistryLeith (Scotland, UK)
Net Tonnage697
Gross Tonnage1,351
Deadweght Tonnage1,545

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
CITY OF COLOMBO (1956-1977 General cargo ship of Ellerman Lines, London : Scrapped in 1979) Own Page

Ellerman Line's CITY OF COLOMBO left Moji (Kyushu, Japan) August 1 for London

Port of RegistryLondon (UK)

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
CITY OF RIPON (1956- 1978 General cargo liner of Ellerman Line)) Own Page

Ellerman Line's CITY OF RIPON left Penang August 1 for London

Gross Tonnage7,716

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
IBERIA (1954-1973 Passenger liner of P & O, London : Scrapped in 1973) Own Page

P & O Line's IBERIA left Naples August 1 for London

Port of RegistryLondon (England, UK)
Gross Tonnage29,614

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
IBERIC (1961-1976 Passenger / cargo ship 510 feet long of Shaw Savill & Albion Line, London) Own Page

Shaw Savill Line's IBERIC left Fremantle August 1 for London

Port of RegistryLondon (England, UK)
Gross Tonnage11,248

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
PERSIC (1949-1969 Passenger / cargo liner of Shaw Savill & Albion, London)) Own Page

Shaw Savill's PERSIC leaves Glasgow for Auckland (New Zealand) via Liverpool

Sailing forAuckland (New Zealand) via LiverpoolPort of RegistryLondon (England, UK)
Sailed from berthGlasgow Gross Tonnage13,594

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
CLAN MACLEOD (1948 - 1976 General cargo ship 466 feet long of Clan Line Steamers, Glasgow) Own Page

Clan Line's CLAN MACLEOD leaves Glasgow for Bombay (India) via Liverpool

Sailing forBombay (India) via LiverpoolPort of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Sailed from berthGlasgow Gross Tonnage6,073

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
CLAN MACDOUGALL (1944-1971 cargo liner 508 feet long of Clan Line Steamers) Own Page

Clan Line's CLAN MACDOUGALL leaves Glasgow for Durban (South Africa) via Liverpool

Sailing forDurban via LiverpoolPort of RegistryGlasgow
Sailed from berthGlasgow Gross Tonnage9710

Sailing

Tuesday, August 1, 1961 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
AMAL (in 1961 at Glasgow and Israel) Own Page

AMAL leaves Glasgow with general cargo for Haifa (Israel)

Sailing forHaifa (Israel)
Sailed from berthGlasgow
Outward cargoGeneral cargo

Sailing

Wednesday, August 2, 1961 @ 0700
The date and time shown is the date and time advertised on the published timetable
KING GEORGE V (1926-1975 Excursion Passenger steamer 260 feet long of David MacBrayne / Caledonian MacBrayne) Own Page

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

Port of RegistryGlasgow (UK)
Gross Tonnage985

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

 

Iona Abbey with the Isle of Mull in the background

 

News Event

Wednesday, August 2, 1961 @ 1000
CAPE HOWE (1943-1961 General cargo ship of Lyle Shipping Company, Glasgow) Own Page

Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow sell their steamer CAPE HOWE to a Hong Kong Company.

Port of RegistryGlasgow (UK)

   The Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow have announced that they have sold their cargo steamer CAPE HOWE to the Wing Tak Steamship Company of Hong Kong for £105,000.

   The ship is currently trading in Australian waters and will be delivered to her new owners in September and will be renamed WORLD PINK.

   CAPE HOWE was built in 1943 by Lithgows Ltd. at Port Glasgow and is a steam-powered general cargo carrying ship of 6,999 gross tons and is 433 feet long and is registered in Glasgow.   When she was launched she was owned by Cape of Good Hope Motorship Company Ltd. and managed by Lyle Shipping Company and has remained with Lyle throughout her life.

   The ship is the second of the Lyle Company to be named CAPE HOWE.   The first was sunk in the North Atlantic in 1940 by a German U-boat U-28. 

  

News Event

Wednesday, August 2, 1961 @ 1000
Own Page

1961 Advertisment by Court Line, London for Navigating and Engineer Officers

NAVIGATING  and  ENGINEER OFFICERS

Applications invited for positions, senior and junior ranks, in modern fleet of dry cargo vessels: conditions and remunerations comparable with any other first-class shipping company: engineers with Burmeister & Wain experience would be given every chance for promotion.  Phone or write for particulars to

Court Line Ltd.

1 Leadenhall Street,

London  E.C.3. 

  

News Event

Wednesday, August 2, 1961 @ 1000
Own Page

1961 Advertisment by Coast Lines for sailings from Glasgow and Greenock to Liverpool and Manchester

 

COAST  LINES  LIMITED

SAILINGS from GLASGOW & GREENOCK

to LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER 

as INDUCEMENT OFFERS

 

52 ROBERTSON STREET,  GLASGOW C.2.

tel  CEN 9650