Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

List Arrivals, Sailings and Events


What/When Ship

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0700
CHRISTINA 11 ( in 1962 for CHRISTINA 2 Inshore fishing trawler) Own Page
Sailing forSea - Inshore fishing grounds (usually in waters off Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde)Port of RegistryPort Seton (Scotland, UK)
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour
Outward cargoLight

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0700
ST NINIAN (inshore fishing boat) Own Page
Sailing forSea - Inshore fishing grounds (usually in waters off Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde)Port of RegistryPort Seton
Sailed from berthArdrossan HarbourNet TonnageInshore fishing boat
Outward cargoLight

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0700
SILVER CREST (in 1962 Inshore fishing trawler LH 316) Own Page
Sailing forSea - Inshore fishing grounds (usually in waters off Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde)Port of RegistryPort Seton (Scotland, UK)
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour
Outward cargoLight

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0700
GLEANER (Inshore fishing boat) Own Page
Sailing forSea - Inshore fishing grounds (usually in waters off Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde)Port of RegistryTarbert
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour
Outward cargoLight

Arrival

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0745
ELISA (1957-1969 General cargo / container carrying coaster 61.77m 191 feet long of Hendrik Pepping / Dammers & van der Heide's Shipping & Trading Company, Rotterdam) Own Page
Arrived fromLarne (Northern Ireland)Port of RegistryRotterdam (Holland)
Arrived in berthArdrossan HarbourNet Tonnage300
Master of vessel on arrivalLaanGross Tonnage519
Cargo carried on arrivalContainersDeadweght Tonnage800
Ships agentGeneral Freight, Ardrossan

Ship Event

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0900
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate
FILEFJELL (1961-1967 Motor ore carrier 605 feet overall of A/S Falkefjell & A/S Dovrefjell / Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo : 1986 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Own Page

FILEFJELL at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow bunkers 320 tons of fuel oil from CLYDE ENTERPRISE

Ship's locationGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (with her head east)Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Vessel bunkeredSee note belowNet Tonnage8,656
Gross Tonnage17,622
Deadweght Tonnage26,610

30th November FILEFJELL bunkered 320 tons of fuel

oil and on 1st December bunkered 110 tons of fuel

oil, both times from oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISE.


On sailing from General Terminus Quay the 605 feet

long  FILEFJELL (Pilot B. Taylor) was towed astern by

4 tugs, passing Queen’s and Prince’s Docks, Yorkhill,

Meadowside and Merklands Quays to King George V

Dock where her stern was put into the dock and she

was canted to port and then proceeded ahead going

downriver to Greenock and the Firth of Clyde and

then on passage to Monrovia, in Liberia, West Africa.

Ship Event

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0900
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate
CLYDE ENTERPRISE (Harbour oiler) Own Page

CLYDE ENTERPRISE bunkers FILEFJELL at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow with 320 tons of fuel oil

Ship's locationGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (alongside ore carrier FILEFJELL)

 

 

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1020
LADY McGOWAN (1952-1977 Explosives carrier 182 feet long of I.C.I. Nobel Explosives, Glasgow) Own Page

LADY McGOWAN completes bunkering and leaves Ardrossan Harbour for Irvine

Sailing forIrvine, Ayrshire, ScotlandPort of RegistryGlasgow
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour
Outward cargoLight - oil bunkers
Draught aft on sailing10' 6"
Master of vessel on sailingJ Ferguson
Ships agentR L Alpine, Ardrossan

News Event

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1200
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate
CITY OF LEICESTER (1964-1965 General cargo ship 373 feet overall of Ellerman Lines, London : formerly Ellerman Papayanni's EGYPTIAN : 1967 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan)) Own Page

CITY OF LEICESTER left Aden (Yemen) for Kuching (Capital city of Sarawak, Malaysia)

Sailing forKuching (Capital city of Sarawak, Malaysia)Port of RegistryLondon (England, U.K.)
Sailed from berthAden (Yemen)Net Tonnage1,368
Gross Tonnage3,512

Ellerman & Papayanni's EGYPTIAN was renamed as CITY OF LEICESTER in 1964-1965 but was sailing as CITY OF LEICESTER in 1962.

   Can anyone explain this  ?

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1515
SAINT KENTIGERN (1938 - General cargo coaster 236 feet long of J & A Gardner, Glasgow) Own Page

Gardner's SAINT KENTIGERN leaves Ardrossan light-ship for Lochaline (Sound of Mull, Scotland)

Sailing forLochaline, Morvern area, Sound of Mull, Scottish HighlandsPort of RegistryGlasgow
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour (Eglinton Dock)Net Tonnage152
Outward cargoLightGross Tonnage249
Draught aft on sailing9 feetDeadweght Tonnage310
Ships agentR L Alpine, Ardrossan

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1800
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate
CALABAR (1957-1962 Passenger / cargo ship of Elder Dempster Line, Liverpool : 1962 scrapped) Own Page

CALABAR left Lagos (Nigeria) for London (England, UK)

Sailing forLondon (England, UK)Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, U.K.)
Sailed from berthLagos (Nigeria)Gross Tonnage8,305

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1800
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate
BENWYVIS (1955-1963 General cargo liner of William Thomson's Ben Line, Edinburgh) Own Page

BENWYVIS left Penang (Malaysia) for Seletar (an area in the north-east of Singapore)

Sailing forSeletar (an area in the north-east of Singapore)Port of RegistryLeith (Scotland, UK)
Sailed from berthPenang (Malaysia)

Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1800
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate
AMERICAN SCIENTIST (1947 - 1969 cargo ship 459 feet overall of United States Lines, New York : 1970 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Own Page

AMERICAN SCIENTIST left Philadelphia (locally known as Philly : Pennsylvania, USA) for Liverpool

Sailing forLiverpool (England, UK)Port of RegistryNew York
Sailed from berthPhiladelphia (colloquially referred to as Philly : Pennsylvania, USA)Net Tonnage4,954
Gross Tonnage8,239
Deadweght Tonnage10,519

Ship Event

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 1900
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate
MALEKULA (1952-1969 Passenger / cargo ship 322 feet overall of Burns, Philp & Co., Sydney, Australia : 1974 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Own Page

MALEKULA to leave Sydney (Australia) for Papua and New Guinea via Queensland (Australia) ports

Ship's locationSydney (Australia)Port of RegistrySydney (Australia)
Sailing forPapua and New Guinea via Queensland (Australia) portsNet Tonnage1,795
Ships agentBurns, Philp & Co. Ltd., 5 Bridge Street, Sydney (Australia) Tel 80547Gross Tonnage3,768
Deadweght Tonnage3,307

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Sailing

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 2155
SPANIEL (1955-1973 Coaster handling containers, trailers and flats, 224 feet long of Link Line/ Coast Line : 1981 Scrapped at Aviles, Spain) Own Page
Sailing forLarne (Northern Ireland)Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, U.K.)
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour (Eglinton Dock)
Outward cargoTrailers
Ships agentNorthern Ireland Trailers