SOCOTRA at Suez Feb 1 for London

CLAN MACINTYRE from Glasgow at Dakar (Senegal, West Africa) Feb 1

Puffer STARLIGHT shifts from Queen's Dock to AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

 Puffer STARLIGHT shifts from Queen's Dock, Glasgow to alongside AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin to load 1 lift from the American ship

Puffer STARLIGHT arrives at AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

 Puffer STARLIGHT had shifted from Queen's Dock, Glasgow to alongside AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin to load 1 lift from the American ship

Puffer STARLIGHT comes alongside AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow unloads 1 lift into puffer STARLIGHT

Puffer STARLIGHT loads 1 lift from AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

Puffer STARLIGHT leaves AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

Puffer STARLIGHT leaves AMERICAN MANUFACTURER at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow

MAY leaves Ardrossan Harbour for Oban

GLEN SHIEL leaves Queen's Dock, Glasgow with building materials for Benbecula

Glen & Company's META leaves Rothesay Dock, Clydebank on her final voyage to Gothenburg

At 1230 on 30^th January META shifted ahead along the Dock Wall from berth 31 Prince’s Dock to berth 30.

    This was META’s last voyage for F. T. Everard / Glen Line of Glasgow when, at 1625 on 30^th January, after being sold, she left Prince’s Dock, Glasgow and moved downriver to Rothesay Dock, Clydebank to complete loading.   META arrived at berth 9 Rothesay Dock, Clydebank, with her head east, at 1830 on 30^th January.   Her draught forward was 4’ 00” and aft 14’ 06” and her cargo was part general cargo outwards.

   Main & Pearson Stevedores boarded her at 0800 on 31^st January and commenced loading an outward cargo of 505 tons of Coke Breeze and 149 tons of coal bunkers (META used coal not oil for her engines.) 

   META used the dock boatmen at 1220 on 31^st January to shift from berth 9 to berth 8 Rothesay Dock and loading of cargo and bunkers was completed at 1815 on 31^st August.   Another shifting ship using boatmen at 1850 took her from berth 8 to berth 13 Rothesay Dock.

   With her draught forward now 9’ 00” and aft 15’ 00” META left Rothesay Dock, Clydebank, at 1120 on 1st February on passage around the North of Scotland and across the North Sea to Gothenburg (Sweden) where she discharged her cargo and was then handed over to her new owners A/S Christiania Portland Cement Fabrik, Oslo, Norway, who would use her as a dumb (= with her engines being removed) floating hulk to store cement.

ADJUTANT leaves Queen's Dock, Glasgow for Gibraltar via Liverpool

Puffer TEXAN leaves Queen's Dock, Glasgow with a cargo of coal for Dunoon

PACIFIC STRONGHOLD at Glasgow to load general cargo for Pacific coast ports of North America

   A new method of shipping Scotch whisky to prevent damage or pilferage is being tested on the loading of the Furness Withy cargo ship PACIFIC STRONGHOLD at Prince’s Dock, Glasgow.

   About 80,000 cases of whisky are being shipped in the vessel, but the test consignment consists of 910 cases from George Ballantine & Son Ltd, Dumbarton, these cases being packed in aluminium-framed containers each containing 182 cases and the containers are sealed by Customs Officers at the Distillery and will not be opened until they reach their destination, San Francisco.

   A spokesman for Furness Withy said that the containerisation would ease the passing through Customs, prevent pilfering or damage and loading would be speeded up as a normal lift was 16 cases.