RANGITANE at Auckland (New Zealand) loading for London

RANGITANE,  at Auckland Sept 30, for London

British India's WAROONGA at Melbourne for Brisbane

WAROONGA,  at Melbourne Sept 30, for Brisbane

Conducting their business in Great Waters 30th September and 1st October 1964

AMERICAN  PRESS  at New York Oct 1 from Liverpool

AMERICAN  SCIENTIST  left New York Sept 30 for Glasgow

BENAVON  at London Sept 30 for Grangemouth

BENCRUACHAN  at Antwerp Oct 1 for Rotterdam

BENDORAN  at Singapore Oct 1 for Penang

BENGLOE  left Suez Sept 30 for Aden

BENLARIG  left London Sept 30 for Grangemouth

BENLOYAL  at Singapore Sept 30 for Penang

BENREOCH  at Hong Kong Oct 1 for Keelung

BENVORLICH  left Le Havre Oct 1 for Rotterdam

CARINTHIA  left Liverpool Sept 30 for Montreal

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM  at Singapore Sept 30 for Tawao (now Tawau, in Sabah, Borneo)

CITY OF LONDON  at Liverpool Sept 30 from Bombay

CITY OF WELLINGTON  at Penang Sept 30 for London

CROFTER  left Tanga Sept 30 for Dar-es-Salaam

ELLINIS  at Southampton Oct 1 from Sydney

EMPRESS OF CANADA  at Liverpool Oct 1 for Montreal

ENGLISH STAR  at Durban Sept 30 for Beira

INVENTOR  at Durban Sept 30 for Beira

LANDWADE  at Mena al  Ahmadi Oct 1 from Glasgow

LOCH GARTH  at Vancouver Sept 30 from London

MAURITANIA  at Southampton Oct 1 from New York

MELBOURNE  STAR  at Auckland Oct 1 for Wellington

NELEUS  at Melbourne Oct 1 from Glasgow

ORONSAY  at Melbourne Oct 1 for Sydney

OZARDA  left Bombay Sept 30 for London

PATONGA  at Melbourne Oct 1 for London

REMUERA  at Kingston (Jamaica) Sept 30 for London

SUEVIC  at Wellington Oct 1 for Bluff

SYLVANIA  at New York Oct 1 from Liverpool

URUGUAY  STAR left Rotterdam Oct 1 for London

BENAVON at London Sept 30 for Grangemouth

BENLOYAL at Singapore Sept 30 for Penang

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM at Singapore Sept 30 for Tawao (now Tawau, in Sabah, Borneo)

CITY OF LONDON at Liverpool Sept 30 from Bombay

CITY OF WELLINGTON at Penang Sept 30 for London

ENGLISH STAR at Durban Sept 30 for Beira

INVENTOR at Durban Sept 30 for Beira

LOCH GARTH at Vancouver Sept 30 from London

REMUERA at Kingston (Jamaica) Sept 30 for London

ASMIDISKE arrived at Tail-of-the-Bank from Montreal (Canada)

River Clyde reopens today to traffic after LIVANITA went aground

Newspaper Edition Thursday 1^st October 1964

   Clyde reopened to down-river traffic

   Up-river sailings today

After discussions among officials of the Clyde Navigation Trust, salvage experts, and the Clyde Pilotage Authority, the Clyde was opened yesterday to down-river traffic for ocean-going ships.   It was closed on Tuesday after the main channel was blocked by the deadweight ore carrier LIVANITA (26,700 tons), which went aground at Scotstoun.

   The Clyde Trust were unwilling to allow ocean-going vessels to pass until the south side of the navigable channel opposite the LIVANITA was marked by a buoy.

   This was done yesterday and by four o’clock the first ship, the Alfred Holt Blue Funnel liner ASTYANAX, sailed down the river.   The others which followed her were the AMARNA, DEVIS, INTERPRETER and CORVIGLIA.   The COLINA was prevented from sailing by engine trouble.

   Today six ships, which are held up at Tail of the Bank, will be able to come up river.   Thereafter the Clyde Trust hope to resume normal daylight traffic with one-way traffic past the LIVANITA.

   A senior official of the Clyde Trust said that no attempt will be made to free the LIVANITA, which is flooded in several forward tanks, for several days.   A diver is standing by to make a preliminary inspection of the ship’s interior.

   It is intended to put cranes on board the ship this morning and begin to unload some of the iron ore from the Number 1 hold on to coasters which will probably take the ore to Rothesay Dock.   Unloading is expected to take several days.

COLVILLES’  STOCKS

   Because the Colville’s steelworks are running at record-breaking levels, the consumption of ore is massive, and this delay is not for the moment causing concern.   They have stocks sufficient for several weeks.

   If, once the LIVANITA is cleared, there is any congestion at the docks, caused by the arrival of other ore-carriers, Colvilles may use the reserve facilities at the unloading plant at General Terminus Quay to cope with delays.