List Arrivals, Sailings and Events

What/When	Ship
Ship Event Tuesday, August 29, 1950 @ 1700	CITY OF OXFORD (1948-1976 General cargo liner 463 feet long of Ellerman City Line, Glasgow)	Own Page
CITY OF OXFORD closes at Birkenhead for cargo for Port Said, Suez, Aden, Visakhapatnam and Calcutta
Ships agent Hall Line Ltd., Tower Building, Liverpool 3 Tel. CENtral 8444 Telex 62-185 Port of Registry Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) Gross Tonnage 7,593
Ship Event Tuesday, September 5, 1950 @ 0100 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only	EMPIRE GLADSTONE (1944-1950 General cargo ship 131m long of Ministry of War Transport, London / Chartered to Adelaide Steamship Company : 1950 Wrecked)	Own Page
EMPIRE GLADSTONE goes aground and wrecked off Haystack Rock, Ioala Point, Merimbula, Australia
Vessel Master John Lennie Port of Registry Sunderland (England) Sailing for Sydney (Australia) Gross Tonnage 7,090 Sailed from berth Whyalla Cargo carried on arrival Iron Ore and Dodge Utes
News Event Thursday, October 5, 1950 @ 1700	ESCAUT (1947-1965 General cargo coaster of Wm H Muller, Rotterdam :1985 Scrapped)	Own Page
Muller's coaster ESCAUT closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for Rouen and Paris (France)
Ship's location 21 Prince's Dock, Glasgow Port of Registry Rotterdam (Netherlands) Ships agent Wm H Muller & Co. (London) Ltd., 69 St Vincent St., Glasgow Tel. City 6002/3
News Event Thursday, November 30, 1950 @ 1230 The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate	SINGAPORE (1951-1964 General cargo liner 525 feet overall of P.& O. Line, London : Scrapped in 1972)	Own Page
Launch of P & O cargo ship SINGAPORE at John Brown's, Clydebank, is delayed by gale force wind
Ship's location Shipbuilding yard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank (Scotland, UK) Port of Registry London (England, U.K.) Ships agent John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank (Scotland, UK) Gross Tonnage 9,236 Deadweght Tonnage 10,750
Ship Event Monday, December 11, 1950 @ 1000 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate	CITY OF LYONS (General cargo ship of Ellerman's City Line, Glasgow)	Own Page
1955 Advert by Ellerman Lines showing CITY OF LYONS as the first ship to load at Chalna (Khulna)
Ship's location Chalna (Khulna) Port of Registry Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) Ships agent Gladstone Wyllie & Co. Ltd., Chittagong, Khulna and Dacca
News Event Monday, January 15, 1951 @ 1000		Own Page
1951 Advertisment for Ellerman Lines services to South Africa
News Event Monday, February 5, 1951 @ 2200	CIRCASSIA ( 1937 - 1966 Passenger and cargo liner 483 feet long of Anchor Line, Glasgow)	Own Page
Anchor Line's CIRCASSIA on passage to India stands by a ship in distress in the Bay of Biscay
Ship's location About 300 miles from Cape Finisterre (Northern Spain) Port of Registry Glasgow Vessel Master Captain J M Brown Sailing for Bombay (since 1995 known as Mumbai, India : as name Bombay was an unwanted memory of British rule) Sailed from berth Liverpool (England, UK) Outward cargo 300 passengers and general cargo
Ship Event Monday, February 5, 1951 @ 2200	FANNY (1906- )	Own Page
Finnish ship FANNY in distress in the Bay of Biscay
Ship's location About 300 miles from Cape Finisterre (Northern Spain) Port of Registry Mariehamn (Aland, Finland) Gross Tonnage 2,522
Ship Event Monday, February 5, 1951 @ 2200	EL MORO (in 1951)	Own Page
EL MORO stands by the Finnish ship FANNY in distress in the Bay of Biscay
Ship's location About 300 miles from Cape Finisterre (Northern Spain) Port of Registry UK
Ship Event Monday, February 5, 1951 @ 2200	OAKMORE (in 1951)	Own Page
OAKMORE stands by the Finnish ship FANNY in distress in the Bay of Biscay
Ship's location About 300 miles from Cape Finisterre (Northern Spain)
Ship Event Monday, February 5, 1951 @ 2200	THAMES (in 1951 Ocean going tug)	Own Page
Dutch tug THAMES heading for the Finnish ship FANNY in distress in the Bay of Biscay
Ship's location About 300 miles from Cape Finisterre (Northern Spain) Port of Registry Netherlands
Arrival Thursday, March 8, 1951 @ 0600 The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate	ATLANTIC TRADER (in 1951 General cargo ship)	Own Page
ATLANTIC TRADER arrives in Madras (India) with 9,150 tons of wheat from Canada
Ship's location Madras (now called Chennai), India Arrived from Canada Sailing for Calcutta (India) Cargo carried on arrival 9,150 tons of wheat from Canada
News Event Friday, March 9, 1951 @ 0600 The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate	OKHLA (1946-1961 General cargo ship of British India Steam Navigation Company, London)	Own Page
British India Line's OKHLA arrives in Cochin (India) with 8,800 tons of rice from Thailand
Ship's location Cochin (India) Port of Registry London (UK) Arrived from Thailand Gross Tonnage 5,697 Cargo carried on arrival 8,800 tons of rice from Thailand
News Event Friday, March 16, 1951 @ 1000 ACTUAL DATE and TIME are unknown and those shown are our best estimate		Own Page
1951 Advertisment for Ellerman Lines services to the World
News Event Wednesday, March 28, 1951 @ 0600 The actual date and time are unknown and details shown here are as published or our best estimate	CITY OF CAPETOWN (1937- General cargo ship of Ellerman Lines, London)	Own Page
CITY OF CAPETOWN due in Madras (India) after a fire and delay by bad weather
Ship's location Madras (now called Chennai), India Port of Registry London (UK) Ships agent Best & Co. Ltd., Madras Gross Tonnage 8,046

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