LAIRDSGLEN calls at Merklands Quay, Glasgow to unload Livestock to the adjacent Merklands Lairage

LAIRDSCREST calls at Merklands Quay, Glasgow to unload Livestock to the adjacent Merklands Lairage

Destroyer H.M.S. FIFE launched by Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Glasgow

TWO  CLYDE  LAUNCHINGS

YARD’s  FIRST  FOR  A  SWISS  FIRM

    Two bulk carriers, each of about 33,000 tons deadweight, were launched within minutes of each other on the Clyde.

   At Scotstoun, Charles Connell and Co. put into the water the ROMANDIE, building for Helica S.A. of Geneva, and the largest ship so far constructed at the yard.

   Sir Charles Connell, chairman of the firm, said it was the first ship in 103 years to be built by them for Swiss owners.   They had not met these owners until September of last year but within eight days of making contact an order had been placed and the ship had been launched a year and a day later.

SWISS  SULZER  ENGINE

   Mr. Georges Andre, president of Helica S.A., whose wife performed the naming ceremony, said it was 12 years since their first ROMANDIE had been built on the East Coast of Scotland.   Since then they had 10 ships built in Yugoslavia before coming back to Scotland,

   The ROMANDIE, which will be managed by Suisse Atlantique, a member of the Helica Group, will be the largest ship in the Swiss merchant fleet and has an overall length of 630ft. (192 metres).    Cargo will be carried in three short and four long holds.

    She is powered by a Swiss-built Sulzer diesel engine.   The engine, which was in position before the ship was launched, was installed by Barclay, Curle and Co., Scotstoun, and is capable of developing 13,800 h.p.   It has Sulzer pneumatic remote control from a console in the engine room and from a bridge console.

GOVAN  LAUNCH

   The other bulk carrier launched was the 32,800-ton deadweight CLUDEN built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd., Govan, for the Matheson Shipping Co. Ltd., London.

   The CLUDEN, which was named by Miss Margaret Keswick, daughter of a director of the owning company, is 625ft  x 85 x 48 ¾ and designed for the carriage of iron ore, grain or coal in bulk, or general cargo.   She is powered by a Fairfield-Rowan Sulzer diesel engine.

   This completes a programme of four launches, valued at £20m., begun with the destroyer H.M.S. FIFE on July 9.

   On completion the CLUDEN, the first large ship owned by Matheson’s, will be chartered to a well known Norwegian shipping company on a medium-term basis.

CLYDE  SHIPBUILDING

   The large tankers already launched this year on the Clyde – totaling about 200,000 tons deadweight, together with others scheduled before the end of December – will continue to provide the largest share of tonnage in this year’s output figures.   This will be challenged, however, by the increasing number of bulk carriers being built.

CLAN MACLACHLAN arrives at Glasgow to load for Aden and Port Sudan via Swansea

Alfred Holt's ANTENOR arrives at Glasgow to unload and load for Singapore and Hong Kong

ROYAL ULSTERMAN calls at Merklands Quay, Glasgow to unload Livestock to the adjacent Lairage

Smit's Dutch rescue tug SCHELDE arrives at Bombay from Bahrain for engine repairs and bunkering

SCOTTISH COAST calls at Merklands Quay, Glasgow to unload Livestock to the nearby Merklands Lairage

Union Castle Line's ROWALLAN CASTLE arrives in Glasgow from Durban and Le Havre via Liverpool

ROWALLAN CASTLE arrived at berth 3 King George V Dock, Glasgow at 1255 on 10th July 1964 from Durban and Le Havre via Liverpool. She discharged 712 tons of citrus fruit and sailed on 14th July at 2325 light-ship for Cape Town (South Africa) ROWALLAN CASTLE was built in 1943 by Harland & Wolff at Belfast, and was scrapped in Kaosiung (Taiwan) in 1971

"Dunera" anchors off Ardrossan - two children taken to the ship by pilot boat

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 17th July 1964

With 600 Scottish school children on board, the "Dunera," on its way to Gibraltar, made an unscheduled call last Friday evening when she anchored off Ardrossan to allow two Norwegian children who had missed the boat when it sailed from Greenock earlier in the day, to be brought on board.
The children were taken out in the pilot boat.

Smit's rescue tug SCHELDE leaves Bombay for disabled tanker PACIFIC SATELLITE off Mangalore

Disabled Liberian oil tanker PACIFIC SATELLITE with engine trouble at anchor off Mangalore (India)

Paddy Henderson's DALLA leaves Shieldhall, Glasgow and moves downriver to Greenock

ROYAL SCOTSMAN calls at Merklands Quay, Glasgow to unload livestock