Donaldson's cargo liner COLINA delayed from leaving Glasgow due to engine trouble

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.

Ben Line's BENHOPE was at Southampton and loading for the Far East via the Suez Canal

BENHOPE,  at Southampton Sept 30, for Port Said

Ben Line's BENVENUE was at Penang (Malaysia) on passage to Colombo (Ceylon)

BENVENUE,  at Penang Sept 30, for Colombo

Blue Star's CANBERRA STAR is in Lyttleton on passage from Southampton

CANBERRA STAR,  from Southampton, at Lyttleton Sept 30

CARINTHIA left Liverpool Sept 30 for Montreal

CROFTER left Tanga Sept 30 for Dar-es-Salaam

Bibby Line's YORKSHIRE left Cochin homeward bound for London

AMERICAN SCIENTIST left New York Sept 30 for Glasgow

Alfred Holt’s ASTYANAX leaves Tail-of-the-Bank for the Far East via Liverpool with a general cargo

Moss Hutchison’s AMARNA leaves Tail-of-the-Bank for Mediterranean via Liverpool with general cargo

Lamport & Holt’s cargo ship DEVIS leaves Tail-of-the-Bank empty of cargo for Newcastle

Hogarth’s BARON ARDROSSAN leaves Tail-of-the-Bank coming from James Watt Dock, Greenock

Harrison Lines INTERPRETER left Tail-of-the-Bank with general cargo for West Indies via Liverpool

Swiss Atlantic Line cargo ship CORVIGLIA left Tail-of-the-Bank for Avonmouth (England)