ACCRA left Freetown (Sierra Leone) 3 October for Liverpool

ANTILLIES left Southampton 3 October for Trinidad

ARGENTINA STAR left London on 3 October for Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Mr and Mrs Donald Morrison's Golden Wedding Anniversary

From The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald dated Friday 9th October, 1964

Golden Wedding Celebration

Mr and Mrs Donald Morrison, 25 Castle Road, Ardrossan, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Saturday - by attending their eldest daughter's silver wedding anniversary celebration held in the Stewart Hotel, Glasgow.

The worthy couple were married in the Barony Church, West Kilbride, on 2nd October, 1914, and their daughter, Mrs Stella Robertson, who lives in East Kilbride, was married in the same week 25 years later.

A native of Ardrossan, Mr Morrison first worked in Ardrossan Shipyard before, in 1930, accepting a post with Shell Mex, Ardrossan, with whom he was employed until his retiral in 1954.
He was well known in junior football circles and at one time played with Winton Rovers.

Mrs Morrison, who was born in West Kilbride, worked in the Labour Exchange, Ardrossan,
The couple have a family of five - and six grand-children.

ADRIATIC COAST arrives in Glasgow with cargo transhipped from Holt's PATROCLUS in Liverpool

A few days earlier, on 24^th September, Alfred Holt’s

 cargo ship PATROCLUS had arrived at King

 George V Dock and found that there was no labour

 available to unload her cargo from the Far East.

   Later that evening PATROCLUS left Glasgow

 for Liverpool, still  with her unloaded cargo.

   As a result, ADRIATIC COAST arrived at

Glasgow bringing the cargo which had been

transhipped to her at Liverpool from PATROCLUS

Conducting their business in Great Waters : October 1964

Conducting their business in Great Waters : October 1964

AMERICAN CLIPPER at Baltimore Oct 5 from Glasgow

AMERICAN PRESS at Philadelphia Oct 5 from Liverpool

ATHLONE CASTLE left East London Oct 5 for Durban

AUREOL at Monrovia Oct 5 for Lagos

BENARTY left Port Swettenham Oct 6 for Bangkok

BENDEARG left London Oct 6 for Hamburg

BENDORAN left Penang Oct 5 for Aden

BENLARIG left Grangemouth Oct 6 for Hamburg

BENLOYAL at Penang Oct 6 for Aden

BENREOCH left Hong Kong Oct 5 for Keelung

BENVENUE at Colombo Oct 5 for Aden

BRAEMAR CASTLE at Gibraltar Oct 6 for Durban

BRASIL STAR at Santos Oct 5 for Buenos Aires

CARONIA cruising due Madeira Oct 7

CITY OF BRISTOL left Suez Oct 4 for Bombay

ENGLISH STAR left Durban Oct 5 for Beira

HIMALAYA at Adelaide Oct 6 for Sydney

KENYA CASTLE at Naples Oct 5 for London

MARON at Kobe Oct 4 from Glasgow

MENESTHEUS at Port Said Oct 5 from Glasgow

QUEEN ELIZABETH at New York Oct 6 from Southampton

SALMARA left Port Swettenham Oct 6 for London

Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel cargo liner MARON at Kobe Oct 4 from Glasgow

Conducting their business in Great Waters at the beginning of October 1964

 Conducting their business in Great Waters at the beginning of October 1964

AMERICAN LEADER at Glasgow Oct 4 from Hampton Roads

ATHLONE CASTLE at East London Oct 5 for Durban

CANBERRA STAR at Wellington Oct 4 for Southampton

CITY OF BRISTOL at Port Said Oct 3 for Bombay

CITY OF NEW YORK at Glasgow Oct 3 from Zanzibar

CLAN MACNAIR from Glasgow at Aden Oct 4

COROMANDEL at Penang Oct 5 for Bangkok

DEIDO left Takoradi Oct 3 for Glasgow

DUNERA at Vigo Oct 4 for London

HIMALAYA left Fremantle Oct 3 for Sydney

HORORATA at New Plymouth Oct 5 for Liverpool

INVENTOR left Durban Oct 3 for Beira

IVERNIA left New York Oct 3 for Liverpool

MAGDAPUR left Colombo Oct 3 for London

MARON from Glasgow at Nagoya Oct 3

MATURATA left Port Said Oct 3 for London

MEDIA at New York Oct 3 from Liverpool

ORONSAY at Sydney Oct 4 for London

PELEUS from Glasgow at Singapore Oct 3

PENDENNIS CASTLE left Port Elizabeth Oct 3 for Southampton

PORT MELBOURNE at Brisbane Oct 4 for London

STAFFORDSHIRE at Port Said Oct 4 for Rangoon

THESEUS from Glasgow at Brisbane Oct 4

UNITED STATES at New York Oct 5 from Southampton

AMERICAN LEADER at Glasgow Oct 4 from Hampton Roads

CANBERRA STAR at Wellington Oct 4 for Southampton

CLAN MACNAIR from Glasgow at Aden Oct 4

DUNERA at Vigo Oct 4 for London

ORONSAY at Sydney Oct 4 for London

Splosna Line's TRBOVLJE loads at Bombay, India for Far East, USA and Vancouver

SAXONIA at Liverpool from New York