Shaw Savills passenger and cargo liner CERAMIC leaves Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Auckland

Courtesy of Robin Short

DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only

Christmas Card from Anchor Line of Glasgow

Cargo ship JOE NENSEN arrives in Bombay (India) with 4,000 tons of wheat from United States

Cargo ship CARLTON arrives in Bombay (India) with 9,000 tons of milo from United States

Bank Line's TIELBANK arrives in Bombay (India) with 4,364 tons of wheat from Australia

Cargo ship GAUSAL arrives in Bombay (India) with 7,840 tons of wheat from Argentina

"Kilindini Monster" shot by Port Police at Mombasa Harbour (Kenya)

Glasgow Harbour Docks and Quays in 1949

Glasgow Harbour Docks and Quays in 1949

Ellerman vessel "Grecian" launched at Troon

From "Ayrshire Post" dated 4th February 1949

LAUNCH AT TROON

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Limited on Friday launched at Troon S.S. Grecian, which is being built for the Ellerman Lines Limited, and is intended for their Mediterranean trade.

The vessel, built to Lloyds highest class, is about 362 feet long overall, with a beam of 49 feet 10 inches, and a depth to shelter deck of 32 ft 9 inches.
The deadweight ability of the vessel will be about 4070, and the gross tonnage 3280 tons.
The machinery is to consist of one set of triple expansion surface condensing engines in combination with Bauer-Wach exhaust turbine, the boilers being oil-fired under Howden's forced draught system.
The naming ceremony was performed on January 18 by Mrs. J. Douglas Latta, but owing to stress of weather the actual launch had been postponed until Friday.

PRINCESS VICTORIA passing Corsewall Lighthouse (near Stranraer, Scotland, UK)

Contributed by Jimmy (Newton Stewart, Scotland)

Glen Sannox (1925) on Ayr slipway for overhaul

From "Ayrshire Post" dated 4th February 1949

ON AYR SLIPWAY

The shapliness of the T.S.S. Glen Sannox which has, since she was built in 1925 carried thousands of holidaymakers from Ardrossan to Brodick, Lamlash and Whiting Bay, was seen to full advantage this week as she rested on the slip at Ayr harbour where she was taken on Tuesday to undergo preparation for the summer service.

Craftsmen of the Ayr Engineering and Constructional Company who are carrying out repairs to her fender bar and putting in additional lavatory accommodation, stood back from their work to remark on her beauty of line and described her as a "bonny model."

New deck planking has already been fitted at Port Glasgow and when she leaves the slip in about eleven days time she will be again afloat in all the glory of new paint work and ready for another cruising season.

Credited with a speed of 23 3/4 knots on trial, she has proved to be a worthy successor to the old "Glen Sannox" which was broken up at Port Glasgow in 1925, after serving for a short period as a trooper between Southampton and Havre during the first war.

"Pyrope" discharges the first cargo of Limestone at Ayr for ten years

From "Ayrshire Post" dated Friday 18th February 1949

FIRST SINCE 1939
The first cargo of limestone to be discharged at Ayr Harbour since 1939 came in on Tuesday when the "Pyrope," owned by William Robertson, Glasgow, unloaded a cargo of 500 tons brought from North Wales.
200 tons are for iron works at Glasgow, and the rest, already ground, is for use as fertiliser on Ayrshire farms.

ENNERDALE was floated out of a drydock in the Clyde

Death of Capt. Neil Campbell of Ardrossan, master of Burns & Laird vessel "Lairdswood"

From "Ayrshire Post" dated 25th February 1949

Captain Neil Campbell, 7 Caledonia Road, Ardrossan, who died at Glasgow on Sunday was captain of the Burns Laird vessel "Lairdswood" on the Ayr - Ardrossan - Belfast run.
A native of Islay and a son of the late Captain Neil Campbell of the "Lairds Isle," he had been for the past 13 years sailing master with the Burns Laird Line.