Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

List Arrivals, Sailings and Events


What/When Ship

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1702
WARLIGHT (1919-1964 Steam engined general cargo Crinan Canal size Clyde puffer 86 feet long of Light Shipping / Ross & Marshall, Greenock) Own Page

Clyde puffer WARLIGHT passes Bowling Watch House on her way upriver and inbound towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGreenock (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)
Net Tonnage60
Gross Tonnage135

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1720
FASTNET (1927-1950 General cargo coaster of Clyde Shipping Company, Glasgow) Own Page

FASTNET passes Bowling Watch House on her way upriver and inbound towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Gross Tonnage1,415

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1803
CORUNDUM (in 1948) Own Page

CORUNDUM passes Bowling Watch House on her way upriver and inbound towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1825
QUEEN MARY 11 (Passenger excursion vessel 263 feet long of Caledonian Steam Packet Company, Gourock) Own Page

QUEEN MARY 11 passes Bowling Watch House on her way upriver and inbound towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1855
KING EDWARD (1901-1952 Clyde passenger steamer 250 feet long of Caledonian Steam Packet Company, Gourock) Own Page

KING EDWARD passes Bowling Watch House on her way upriver and inbound towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow
Gross Tonnage562

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1942
CAMPAIGNER (1911-1957 Ship-handling Tug 112 feet long of Steel & Bennie, Glasgow : Scrapped 1960) Own Page

Tug CAMPAIGNER ahead of and escorting CUSTODIAN passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow (UK)
Gross Tonnage163

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1942
CUSTODIAN (1928-1950 General cargo ship of Charente / T & J Harrison Ltd, Liverpool) Own Page

Harrison's CUSTODIAN passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, U.K.)
Gross Tonnage5,881

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 1943
STRONGBOW (1927-1960 Steam tug 107 feet long of Steel & Bennie Ltd., Glasgow : Scrapped in 1964) Own Page

Tug STRONGBOW astern of and escorting CUSTODIAN passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Net Tonnage2
Gross Tonnage197

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 2000
THUNDERER (Tug in 1948) Own Page

Tug THUNDERER passes Bowling on her way down the River Clyde towards Greenock

Ship's locationPassing Bowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 2004
LAIRDSGLEN (1929-1951 Passenger / cargo ship 261 feet long of Burns & Laird Lines, Glasgow) Own Page

LAIRDSGLEN passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)

Ship Event

Sunday, August 1, 1948 @ 2005
LOCHGORM (in 1948) Own Page

LOCHGORM passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.

Ship Event

Monday, August 2, 1948 @ 0707
LYTHE (Clyde puffer lighter in 1948) Own Page

Clyde puffer lighter LYTHE passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.

Ship Event

Monday, August 2, 1948 @ 0710
ARRAN (in 1948) Own Page

ARRAN passes Bowling on her way down the River Clyde towards Greenock

Ship's locationPassing Bowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.

Ship Event

Monday, August 2, 1948 @ 0812
LAIRDS LOCH ( 1944-1969 Passenger / cargo vessel 263 feet long of Burns & Laird Lines, Glasgow) Own Page

LAIRDS LOCH passes Bowling on her way upriver towards Glasgow

Ship's locationBowling Watch House, Bowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow

Ship Movement

Monday, August 2, 1948 @ 0820
TURQUOISE (In 1948 General cargo coaster of William Robertson's Gem Line, Glasgow) Own Page

TURQUOISE shifts from Frisky Wharf to Scott's Basin, Bowling

Ship's locationBowling Harbour, River Clyde, Scotland, U.K.Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)