Fishing boat "Golden Years" nets detonators off Ardrossan

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald " dated Friday 23rd June 1972

A fishing boat, the "Golden Years," while fishing off Ardrossan on Monday, caught a quantity of detonators in its nets.
Police had the detonatos examined by experts who said that they were duds which had probably been dumped in the sea.

Clyde Shipping's tug "Flying Falcon" now equipped for fire-fighting

From ?The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald? dated Friday 23rd June 1972

FIRE-FIGHTING TUGS

Fire-fighting tugs are to ?guard? the giant oil tankers berthing at Finnart, and provide a first ever patrol service on the Clyde.
They will have 70-feet high platforms with three remote controlled monitors able to direct 5000 gallons per minute of foam at 150 pounds per square inch with a range of 200 feet and to a height of almost 100 feet above the monitor level.
The ?Flying Falcon,? owned by the Clyde Shipping Company, has just been converted and commissioned in her new role after extensive trials.

Delays affecting the Lochranza - Claonaig car ferry service

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 30th June 1972

Newspaper announcement regarding delays relating to the Lochranza - Claonaig car ferry service

Blue Funnel's HECTOR is delivered to shipbreakers in Taiwan.

Delivered to the shipbreakers Sing Chen Yung Iron and Steel Company, Kaosiung, Taiwan, for demolition.

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Ben Line's BENHOPE (formerly Anchor Line's EGIDIA) arrives at Shipbreakers in Kaosiung, Taiwan

Courtesy of Robin Short DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only She was completed in 1945 at Lithgow's Shipyard at Port Glasgow, as EGIDIA for Anchor Line of Glasgow. In 1962 she was sold to William Thomson's Ben Line and renamed BENHOPE. Her end came in 1972 when BENHOPE arrived for breaking up by Jui Fa Steel & Iron Works Co. Ltd. Shipbreakers at Kaosiung, Taiwan

Anchor Line's EGIDIA arrives at Shipbreakers in Kaosiung, Taiwan

Courtesy of Robin Short

DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only

She was completed in 1945 at Lithgow's Shipyard at Port Glasgow, as EGIDIA for Anchor Line of Glasgow.
In 1962 she was sold to William Thomson's Ben Line and renamed BENHOPE.
Her end came in 1972 when BENHOPE arrived for breaking up by Jui Fa Steel & Iron Works Co. Ltd. Shipbreakers at Kaosiung, Taiwan

Sunset on dockland at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow

Contributed by Matt Gilmour

Annual Inspection of Ardrossan Coastguard Station in August 1972

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoat Herald" dated Friday 25th August 1972.

Lieutenant Commander John Douglas (second left), Chief Inspector of Coastguard, pictured outside the Ardrossan Station on his annual tour of inspection last Friday.
The others in the picture are Commander P. A. R. Russell-Brown (extreme right), District Officer Edward Wardsworth (second right) and Mr. Robert Miller, the Ardrossan coastguard.

Seismic tests in Irvine Bay between Ardrossan and Troon

From "The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 25th August 1972

Seismic tests in bay

For the next six weeks shock-wave trials will be held by the Clyde Port Authority between Campbell Rock, off Ardrossan, and Lady Island Light, off Troon.

These tests will involve setting off explosions from the mv "Garnock" along a submerged line. The charges will be up to a maximum of one pound.

Mariners, and others boating in this area during the next six weeks, are warned by the authority that they should stay at least 1000 yards away from the "Garnock."
The trials will be carried out about two hours before high water and will last about four hours. The trials began yesterday (Thursday).
The tests are being carried out by ICI as normal research into the performance of their seismic products and are unlikely to cause any disturbance.

A number of heavy vibrations experienced in the Ardrossan area yesterday (Thursday) may have been the result of the tests but an ICI spokesman expressed surprise if they had had such an effect.

Ben Line announce sale of BENLEDI, BENWYVIS and BENALBANACH (and BENVALLA and BENARMIN)

RAJULA on Straits / Madras Service in port at Singapore loading for Nagapattinam and Madras

Crew List for Ellerman's CITY OF ADELAIDE on 1 September 1972

Crew List for Ellerman's CITY OF AUCKLAND on 1 September 1972

Crew List for Ellerman's CITY OF CANBERRA on 1 September 1972