Tanker TINNES leaves Ardrossan Harbour for Curacao (Island country in the South Caribbean Sea)

Tanker TINNES leaves Ardrossan Harbour, Scotland, being towed astern from the berth to the roadstead at the stern by the Ardrossan Harbour tug SEAWAY.

Tug SEAWAY at stern tows tanker TINNES astern from Ardrossan Harbour to Roadstead

Edinburgh Trawlerman in Court

TRAWLERMAN FINED FOR ?BREACH?

An Edinburgh trawlerman who was put aboard his ship at Ardrossan Harbour after being found under the influence of drink, returned to Ardrossan Police Station and caused a disturbance.
This was stated at Ardrossan Police Court on Monday when the man was charged with committing a breach of the peace in the Police Station on the previous day, and was fined ?3.

Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald, 25th May 1962
Courtesy of Ayrshire Weekly Press and
Local History Library, Ardrossan.

Shell UK Tanker AMORIA arrives in Ardrossan Harbour with oil products from Stanlow via Belfast

Tug SEAWAY assists Shell UK Tanker AMORIA to berth in Ardrossan Harbour

GRANTON MERLIN arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with 750 boxes of fish

JOE CROAN arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with 543 boxes of fish

CLIPPER leaves Ardrossan Harbour with a cargo of containers for Larne (Northern Ireland)

POINTER leaves Ardrossan Harbour with trailers for Larne

LETITIA leaves Quebec for Montreal

Tar On Fire At Ardrossan Harbour

TAR FIRE AT ARDROSSAN

FIRE BRIGADE USE FOAM COMPOUND

When a railway tanker from Irvine containing 2,500 gallons of hot tar for delivery to a ship in Ardrossan Harbour was being shunted through the shipyard area on Tuesday afternoon, it sprang a leak and spillage which flooded between the railway lines became ignited by an ember from the ashbox of the locomotive.

Railway employees immediately summoned Ardrossan Fire Brigade who, on their arrival with three major machines, were confronted with a lake of burning tar, measuring 180 feet by 40 feet, covering the double railway line and the points.

Using more than eighty gallons of foam compound the Brigade soon smothered the fire but had to stand by until 4 pm to ensure that the spillage from the fractured tank was kept under control.

The Fire Brigade afterwards expressed appreciation of the services rendered by railway and shipyard employees in removing a number of oxy-acetylene cylinders in close proximity to the burning tar.

Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald Newspaper, 25th May 1962,
Courtesy of Ayrshire Weekly Press and
Local History Library, Ardrossan.

LETITIA arrives in Montreal from Quebec

POINTER arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with trailers from Larne

HANS arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with a cargo of scrap metal from Belfast (Northern Ireland, U.K.)

CLIPPER arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with containers from Larne