Coaster ADVENT departs Glasgow for Amsterdam with a cargo of 244 tons of steel pipes

The general cargo coaster ADVENT arrived in Glasgow from Preston at 1915 on 14th March 1962.

She departed Glasgow for Amsterdam at 1650 on 17th March

SUSAN CONSTANT arrives in Clydebank to load 3,349 tons of Pig Iron for Genoa, Italy

VOLGA arrives in Rothesay Dock, Clydebank with a cargo of steel coils from Ventspils, Latvia

Furness Withy's PACIFIC RELIANCE departs Glasgow for North America and Vancouver

PACIFIC RELIANCE arrived in Prince's Dock from Swansea at 0415 on 14th March 1962 to load for North America Having completed loading and embarking her 10 passengers PACIFIC RELIANCE departed Glasgow for Vancouver at 2230 on 18th March.

LADY McGOWAN calls at Ardrossan to bunker with fuel oil then shifts to Ardrossan Dockyard

Greek tramp ship K HADJIPATERAS shifts along wall at Prince's Dock, Glasgow

The Greek ship K HADJIPATERAS tied-up in Prince's Dock at 1645 on 12th March 1962 from Kelvin Dry Dock, Glasgow, to load scrap metal for Japan.

At 0700 on 19th March she shifted Westwards along the dock wall from berth 27 to berth 27/28 Prince's Dock. Her draught forward was 14' 8" and aft 22' 7"

The following afternoon, 20th March, at 1215, she shifted Eastwards along the dock wall to her previous berth 27 Prince's Dock, draught forward being 15' 6" and aft 24 feet.

At 0710 on 21st March when low water at Govan, the ship was sitting on the ground (sitting on the bottom sea-bed of the dock berth) her draught being 24 feet aft and 15' 9" forward.

On 21st March at 1425 she bunkered 125 tons of fuel oil from the harbour oiler INVERTEST

Having completed loading K HADJIPATERAS departed Prince's Dock for Osaka (Japan) with her cargo of 9650 tons of scrap at 1933 on 31st March 1962

Historical information about the ship.

K HADJIPATERAS was built in 1943 by Todd-Houston Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas,as a wartime Liberty ship, class EC2-S-C1, and completed in July 1943 as GEORGE C CHILDRESS and served the US Government from 1943 to 1947.
They sold her in 1947 to J & A Hadjipateras, Piraeus, Greece, who renamed her K HADJIPATERAS and employed her worldwide as a general tramp ship.
On 27th July 1967, whilst on a voyage from Calcutta to Rangoon (Burma) with a cargo of coal, she ran aground on a reef at Koronje Island, 35 miles north of Pagoda Point off Bassein, Burma and quickly sank.

Tug WRESTLER arrives at Ardrossan and waits to assist in sailing the tanker CLUTHA RIVER

Tug WRESTLER leaves Ardrossan assisting in sailing the tanker CLUTHA RIVER

WRESTLER was attached to the bow of CLUTHA RIVER and tug SEAWAY was attached to the tanker's stern.

The tugs towed the CLUTHA RIVER stern-first from the berth to the roadstead, and, when released by the Pilot, both tugs let go their towing hawsers and left the tanker, WRESTLER leaving Ardrossan to return to Greenock

Tug SEAWAY assists IRISH HOLLY to berth in Ardrossan Harbour

IRISH HOLLY arrives in Ardrossan Harbour from Heysham with a cargo of Gas Oil

Tug SEAWAY assists IRISH HOLLY to berth in Ardrossan Harbour

JEAN WOOD arrives in Ardrossan

JEAN WOOD leaves Ardrossan

JEAN WOOD arrives in Ardrossan

SILVER CREST arrives in Ardrossan with her catch of 18 boxes of fish

Elder Dempster's SHONGA departs Glasgow for Dublin and West Africa

SHONGA arrived in Glasgow at 0450 on 15th March from Swansea to load for West African ports.

On 16th March at 1000 the floating crane NEWSHOT came alongside and loaded 5 heavy lifts totalling 22 tons onto SHONGA.

Having completed loading, SHONGA cast-off her ropes at 1915 on 19th March and departed her Glasgow berth for Dublin and Freetown (West Africa)