Ben Line's BENDEARG at Singapore October 6 for London

Ben Line's BENHIANT at Singapore October 6 for Bangkok

Ben Line's BENKITLAN at Kota Kinabalu October 6 for Sandakan

SAINT FERGUS arrives in Glasgow with a cargo of Granite from Bonawe in the Scottish Highlands

ATLANTIC FAITH arrives at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow with Iron Ore from Venezuela

Norwegian Bulk Carrier BIRKNES arrives at the Scott Lithgow repair Quay, Greenock

Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel TALTHYBUS arrives in Glasgow from Dublin

Anchor Line Purser drowns at Glasgow despite efforts by Engineer from MASKELIYA to save him

    62-year old Mr. Andrew Young of Glasgow, a Purser with Anchor Line, drowned at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow when he was reversing his car and it accidentally went over the quayside and fell about 30 feet (10 metres) into the water.

   Mr Young and a companion had arrived at the Brocklebank Line cargo ship MASKELIYA and the companion had boarded the ship when he saw the car reversing at the quayside and topple backwards over the edge.

   The 28-year old Mr. James Gannon of Huyton, Lancashire, Third Engineer on MASKELIYA heard the shouting and rushed to the quayside and jumped into the water, trying four times to reach the submerged car but without success as the water was too deep.

   The Glasgow Fireboat ST MUNGO from her station at the other end of Yorkhill Quay and the Police Launch SEMPER VIGILO were on the scene within minutes and a fireman jumped into the water and attempted to hook a rope line to the sunken car but was unsuccessful.

   The car had somersaulted as it sank and was resting on its roof on the riverbed with some of the windows broken.

   A diver from Clydeport recovered the body about an hour later and a crane lifted the car from the water,

Fireboat ST MUNGO attends a drowning at MASKELIYA at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow

    62-year old Mr. Andrew Young of Glasgow, a Purser with Anchor Line, drowned at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow when he was reversing his car and it accidentally went over the quayside and fell about 30 feet (10 metres) into the water.

   Mr Young and a companion had arrived at the Brocklebank Line cargo ship MASKELIYA and the companion had boarded the ship when he saw the car reversing at the quayside and topple backwards over the edge.

   The 28-year old Mr. James Gannon of Huyton, Lancashire, Third Engineer on MASKELIYA heard the shouting and rushed to the quayside and jumped into the water, trying four times to reach the submerged car but without success as the water was too deep.

   The Glasgow Fireboat ST MUNGO from her station at the other end of Yorkhill Quay and the Police Launch SEMPER VIGILO were on the scene within minutes and a fireman jumped into the water and attempted to hook a rope line to the sunken car but was unsuccessful.

   The car had somersaulted as it sank and was resting on its roof on the riverbed with some of the windows broken.

   A diver from Clydeport recovered the body about an hour later and a crane lifted the car from the water,

Police Launch SEMPER VIGILO attends a drowning at MASKELIYA at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow

    62-year old Mr. Andrew Young of Glasgow, a Purser with Anchor Line, drowned at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow when he was reversing his car and it accidentally went over the quayside and fell about 30 feet (10 metres) into the water.

   Mr Young and a companion had arrived at the Brocklebank Line cargo ship MASKELIYA and the companion had boarded the ship when he saw the car reversing at the quayside and topple backwards over the edge.

   The 28-year old Mr. James Gannon of Huyton, Lancashire, Third Engineer on MASKELIYA heard the shouting and rushed to the quayside and jumped into the water, trying four times to reach the submerged car but without success as the water was too deep.

   The Glasgow Fireboat ST MUNGO from her station at the other end of Yorkhill Quay and the Police Launch SEMPER VIGILO were on the scene within minutes and a fireman jumped into the water and attempted to hook a rope line to the sunken car but was unsuccessful.

   The car had somersaulted as it sank and was resting on its roof on the riverbed with some of the windows broken.

   A diver from Clydeport recovered the body about an hour later and a crane lifted the car from the water,

BP Tanker BRITISH SKILL leaves Clyde for Bandar Mashur

Ellerman's CITY OF OTTAWA leaves Glasgow for Chalna via Liverpool

Severe North Atlantic storm delays the arrival of liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 in New York

   The Cunard Passenger liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 arrived in New York three hours late due to her having to detour 260 miles out from the worst weather she has yet encountered.

   A company spokesman in London said that the ship, which was carrying 1,365 passengers, was remarkably steady in the very heavy seas, heavy swell and hurricane-force winds.   He added, in a wonderful Cunard understatement, that “Dancing was interrupted for only one or two short periods in the evening,”

Ellerman's CITY OF EXETER leaves London for South Africa, Lourenco Marques and Beira

ELLERMAN  LINES

SOUTH  AFRICA,

LOURENCO  MARQUES  and  BEIRA 

CITY OF EXETER  leaving London October 8

CITY OF DURBAN  leaving London November 5

Special reduced fares are applicable for

sailings between March / June 1970

For particulars apply to the Company’s Booking Agents

T. Llewelwn Davies & Co. Ltd.,

29 COCKSPUR STREET,  LONDON  S.W.1

Telephone  01-930-5372  or Travel Agents

Port Report dated Friday 10th October 1969

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated 10th October 1969

Four tankers were among the thirty-eight arrivals at Ardrossan Harbour during the week-ended last Saturday.
The largest of the ships to dock were the "British Merlin" from Swansea with fuel oil, and the "Dona Myrto" from Avonmouth also with fuel oil.
On Monday, the "Elisa Ferry" docked from Faroes with fish-meal, and the "Scotfoss" arrived from Halden with woodpulp.
The "Solway Fisher" sailed for Spain with a cargo of combine harvesters the same day.