TEUN leaves Prince's Dock, Glasgow for Rouen (France) with a cargo of spent oxide

TASMANIA leaves Glasgow for Antwerp

KALAW leaves Glasgow for Rangoon (Burma) via Birkenhead

Donaldson Line's COLINA leaves Tighnabruaich (Firth of Clyde, Scotland) for Glasgow

   The burning question for the entries for 9 August is why on earth would the ocean-going cargo liner COLINA call at Tighnabruaich for 9 hours.  

   The one-road village is amazingly small and strung out along a remote coastline, and has a small wooden pier which is occasionally used in the summer months by the excursion passenger vessels on the Clyde. There is no industry and certainly no Customs or Immigration and no Dock labour force.  The village has a population of around 200 people.

   And, more pointedly, Tighnabruaich is situated in a narrow strait of water well off the shipping channel which ocean vessels would use on entering and leaving the Clyde.

   If anyone can solve the mystery of COLINA at Tighnabruaich please let us know using the "Contact us" button at the top of the page.

Head Line's INISHOWEN HEAD leaves Glasgow for Detroit via Montreal

Donaldson Line's COLINA arrives in Glasgow from Tighnabruaich (Firth of Clyde, Scotland)

 This arrival was so unusual that it is worthy of a special remark.

Glasgow's Prince's Dock Logbook for 9th August 1965 (checked once, twice, three times) shows Donaldson Line's COLINA as coming from "Great Lakes via Tighnabruaich."    Tighnabruaich is an extremely small and quite remote township situated in the West Kyles of Bute (which essentially is just north of Rothesay, in the Firth of Clyde) and COLINA could have had to pass through a short and narrow channel to reach the village, remembering that the ship is about 300 feet long and 45 feet breadth and was drawing 17 feet aft.

Normally only Clyde excursion steamers and pleasure yachts would venture through this narrow stretch of water.    An ocean vessel contemplating making this unusual manoeuvre would need a master with absolutely iron nerves and a steady hand and a thorough knowledge of the narrows and West Kyles, as probably no Clyde Pilot would be induced to undertake the transit. Any idea why COLINA would have been in the Kyles of Bute ?

Just in case you are wondering, "Tighnabruaich" - pronounced Tyne (as in River Tyne) -a- brew- ach (as in the German "Achtung") is the Scottish Gaelic language name for "House on the hill)  

And an additional comment

The burning question for the entries for 9 August is why on earth would the ocean-going cargo liner COLINA call at Tighnabruaich for 9 hours.  

   The one-road village is amazingly small and strung out along a remote coastline, and has a small wooden pier which is occasionally used in the summer months by the excursion passenger vessels on the Clyde. There is no industry and certainly no Customs or Immigration and no Dock labour force.  The village has a population of around 200 people.

   And, more pointedly, Tighnabruaich is situated in a narrow strait of water well off the shipping channel which ocean vessels would use on entering and leaving the Clyde.

   If anyone can solve the mystery of COLINA at Tighnabruaich please let us know using the "Contact us" button at the top of the page.

P & O liner ORONSAY at Honolulu (Hawaii) for Sydney (Australia)

RUYSDAEL arrives in Prince's Dock, Glasgow from Birkenhead

Shaw Savill's CYMRIC at Suez for London

SUNRANA leaves Glasgow for Kassa via Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow

CLYDE ENTERPRISE bunkers BASKERVILLE at 62 Stobcross Quay, Glasgow

CLYDE ENTERPRISE was pumping 300 tons oil fuel to BASKERVILLE

BASKERVILLE being bunkered with oil fuel from CLYDE ENTERPRISE

The harbour oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISE came alongside BASKERVILLE and pumped 300 tons oil fuel onto BASKERVILLE

LISMORIA leaves Glasgow with 51 passengers and general cargo for Montreal (Canada)

BASKERVILLE completes bunkering fuel oil from oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISE