Constable Devoy assists in saving a seaman from Ardrossan Dock

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" newspaper dated 15th January 1965.
Late last Saturday night a seaman employed on board a ship at present in Ardrossan Dockyard fell into the dock.
His cries for help were heard, and P.C. A. Devoy and another man succeeded in bringing him to safety.
The seaman was removed to Kilmarnock Infirmary for examination, but was able to return to his ship.

1965 Advertisment by Shaw Savill Line of London for their Round-the-World Passenger Cruises

1965 Advert by Houlder Brothers & Co. Ltd., London for Navigation and Engineer Officers

Anchor Line's CALEDONIA scheduled to arrive at Aden homeward bound for Avonmouth

Anchor Line's CIRCASSIA scheduled to arrive at Gibraltar going eastbound to Karachi and Bombay

ORCADES scheduled to start a 73-day round voyage to Australasia

Sail  The

World

18  MAGICAL  P & O – ORIENT VOYAGES

TO  THE  SUN — FROM  £287  TO  £2550 

Steal the time —  from 66 to 131 days — and you can actually revel in the magic of a P & O – Orient Winter Round Voyage for much the same as it costs to stay at home !

Prices vary enormously.   For example, £287 could buy a Tourist berth;  £315 a berth in a one-class liner.   £2550 entitles you to the glory of a first-class suite !  There’s a host of in-between prices.   But whatever you pay you visit fabulous, faraway places.   You bask in glorious sun.   You inhale salt sea airs.   Your ship is air-conditioned throughout.

   You’ll agree – a P & O – Orient round voyage is sheer magic !

Examine the 6 sample voyages outlined below, then see your Travel Agent or send direct for a free illustrated brochure WINTER VOYAGES to P & O- Orient Lines,  14 Cockspur Street,  London  S.W.1.

ROUND VOYAGE : U.S.A./CANADA/FAR EAST and AUSTRALASIA

1. CHUSAN  (131 days)  First and Tourist Class

12^th March – 21^st July 1965 

2.  ORSOVA  (104 days)   First and Tourist Class

1^st May-13^th August 1965 

ROUND VOYAGE  :  FAR EAST

3.   CHITRAL   (77 days)   First Class only

16^th Nov. 1964 – 1^st Feb. 1965 

4.   CHITRAL   (75 days)   First Class only

6^th Feb. - 2^nd May 1965

ROUND VOYAGE  :  AUSTRALASIA 

5.   HIMALAYA   (66 days)  One Class Tourist

29^th Nov. 1964 – 3^rd Feb. 1965 

6.   ORCADES   (73 days)   One Class Tourist

11^th Jan, - 25^th March 1965

YOU’LL  NEVER  FORGET  THE

PLEASURE  OF  SAILING

P & O -  Orient  Lines

CLAN MACLAREN closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for Tenerife and South and East Africa

CLAN MACGILLIVRAY closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for West, South and East Africa

CLAN MACIVER closes at Birkenhead for receiving cargo for Red Sea, Ceylon, India and Pakistan

Japanese cargo ship ISEHARU MARU arrives at Rothesay Dock, Clydebank with Phosphates from Nauru

ROTTE closes at Birkenhead for receiving cargo for South and East Africa

Papayanni Line's DARINIAN closes at Glasgow for Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples and Sicily

Campbeltown Town Council want hovercraft service to call at Campbeltown and Arran

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" newspaper dated 15th January 1965.
Campbeltown Town Council are to ask Highland Engineering Ltd. if they will extend their proposed Hovercraft service to include calls at Campbeltown and Arran.
the Company are to introduce their Hovercraft service in June between Tarbert, Loch Fyne, and Gourock.
A Council official said that if Campbeltown and Arran were included it would make it possible for the first time for passengers to travel to and from Kintyre and Arran in the same day.

1965 Advert by David MacBrayne Ltd. for their services from Glasgow to West Highlands of Scotland

CLAN MACGILLIVRAY closes at Newport for receiving cargo for West, South and East Africa