RAVNEFJELL shifted astern from berth 31 to berth 30 Prince's Dock, Glasgow

On 25 March 1965 at berth 30 Prince's Dock, Glasgow, 2 heavy lifts total weight 48 tons 10 hundredweights were loaded onto RAVNEFJELL by WRC.   What was WRC ???    

Conducting their business in Great Waters around the end of March 1966

 BEN  LINE

BENARMIN left Hong Kong March 27 for Singapore

BENARTY at London March 27 for Suez

BENATTOW for Beirut March 29

BENCLEUCH left Rotterdam March 28 for Hamburg

BENCRUACHAN at Hamburg March 28 for Rotterdam

BENDEARG left Port Said March 26 for London

BENDORAN at Singapore March 27 for Hong Kong

BENHIANT left Aden March 28 for Port Swettenham

BENHOPE left Penang March 26 for Aden

BENLARIG left Port Swettenham March 29 for Penang

BENRINNES left Singapore March 29 for Port Swettenham

BENVORLICH left Suez March 29 for northbound transit of Suez Canal

CUNARD  LINE

ALAUNIA left Liverpool March 28 for New York

CARINTHIA left Liverpool March 29 for Greenock

FRANCONIA from New York due Southampton March 31

IVERNIA left New York March 25 for Liverpool

QUEEN MARY due Cherbourg March 30 from New York

SAMARIA at Liverpool March 26 from New York

SCYTHIA at Baltimore March 28 from Boston

SYLVANIA left Le Havre March 28 on cruise

DONALDSON  LINE

CORINALDO left Cape Town March 25 for Southampton

LETITIA left Glasgow March 25 for Quebec

LISMORIA at Glasgow March 26 from St John N.B.

British India's BULIMBA arrives at Port Swettenham from Singapore

J.S. of Southend-on-Sea, England contributes a copy of the

British India Steam Navigation Company sailing notice for their

services from Singapore, Port Swettenham and Penang in

February, March and April 1966.

RAVNEFJELL at 30 Prince's Dock, Glasgow loads 2 lifts by WRC, total 48 tons 10 hundredweights

On 25 March 1965 at berth 30 Prince's Dock, Glasgow, 2 heavy lifts total weight 48 tons 10 hundredweights were loaded onto RAVNEFJELL by WRC.   What was WRC ???    

Union Castle Line return an oil painting from their liner STIRLING CASTLE

   The Town Clerk of Stirling, a city in Central Scotland, was astonished to receive a letter from the Union Castle Line in London advising him that their passenger liner STIRLING CASTLE was being broken up in Mihara in Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan.

   The letter told that the Town Council of Stirling had presented an oil painting to the ship, to be displayed on board, on the occasion of her maiden voyage to South Africa in 1936.

   Union Castle Line had removed the painting from the vessel before she went to the shipbreakers and were arranging for the painting to be returned to Stirling.

   STIRLING CASTLE, 725 feet long (225m) and of 25,550 gross tons, was built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast for Union Castle’s mail and passenger service from Southampton to South Africa, calling at Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban.

   In August 1936 she set a new record for the passage from Southampton to Table Bay, reaching South Africa in 13 days and 9 hours, beating the previous record of 14 days 18 hours 57 minutes which had stood since 1893.

   During World War 11 she was used as a troopship and carried 128,000 personnel over 505,000 miles and was unscathed during the conflict.

   STIRLING CASTLE returned to the South Africa passenger route in 1947, until November 1965 when she was withdrawn from service and sold to Nichimen Shipbreaking Company in Japan, arriving there on 3^rd March 1966.

RAVNEFJELL leaves Prince's Dock, Glasgow with cargo for Montreal (Canada) and the Great Lakes

On 25 March 1965 at berth 30 Prince's Dock, Glasgow, 2 heavy lifts total weight 48 tons 10 hundredweights were loaded onto RAVNEFJELL by WRC.   What was WRC ???    

BASKERVILLE departs Glasgow for Port Alfred (Canada)