What is meant by "If sufficient inducement ? "

“ If sufficient inducement “

23 January 2019 at 2113

Geoff  (Australia)  e-mails :

James Bridges (Canterbury, England) e-mails –

“Many of your sailing notices show that a ship will go to a port “if

sufficient inducement.” What exactly is “if sufficient inducement ? “

My understanding of "sufficient inducement" meant if there was

 enough cargo to be lifted to be commercially viable. ”

What are BOP, EOP and Intersection in this Arrival Letter ???

4 February 2019

Fiona Hamilton (Paisley, Scotland) e-mails :

   I have a family interest in Donaldson Line of Glasgow

and found the arrival letter to be of particular relevance.

   There are some items which I need help with.

1.   On the second page, March 15, 2 miles to B.O.P.

then B.O.P. at 2040 hours.   What is B.O.P. ???

2.   Still on second page, March 27, to EOP, then at

1210, half speed EOP and then at 1920 vessel anchored

at Intersection.

   What is EOP and what is Intersection  ???

Thank you, Fiona Hamilton

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Report made by Master of CORINALDO to

the owners Donaldson Brothers & Black, of

Glasgow when the vessel arrived in Buenos

Aires, Argentina, from Tenerife.

Some interesting Youtube films of Netherlands ships in 1960s and 1970s

Some interesting Youtube films of Netherlands ships in the Far East are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrIV9bBKeZk shows elephants being shipped from Ceylon to Australia on STRAAT MALAKKA in 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrPCt64Yff8 shows STRAAT MALAKKA in 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5fjalqE shows TJIWANJI leaving Malaysia for Djakarta in 1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTrESE9CFms shows STRAAT JOHORE at Colombo in 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0PvNiGqVY shows STRAAT JOHORE travelling from Australia to Tasmania in 1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HicB7y5VV6o shows STRAAT HOBART in 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWA6EHpn7nU shows NIJKERK in 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuFv57QCeJQ shows engineers on STRAAT JOHORE in 1961

Youtube film about Head Line's CARRIGAN HEAD on a 1967 passage from Belfast to the Great Lakes

   There is a rather wonderful B.B.C. Documentary film which

was made in 1967 about the Head Line’s cargo ship

CARRIGAN HEAD travelling from Belfast to Detroit and Chicago.

   The film is in black-and-white and about 26 minutes long and

is pure nostalgia for the times when vessels worked on the U.K.

to Great Lakes run.

   Find it on Youtube  ....     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNMQJHV0W0

Some interesting Youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPxxcTS_6TE is a British Pathe film showing British Tanker Company’s tanker BRITISH SKILL arriving at the Kent Refinery in 1952.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT10p86d-SE showing the last voyage in July 1994 of the B.P, tanker BRITISH RENOWN and her delivery to the shipbreakers at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZAYgZZvlLo showing life on board passenger ship STRAAT BANKA in 1964

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Details needed for CARSTEN SIF and CATHARINA OLDENDORFF

CARSTEN SIF and CATHARINA OLDENDORFF

Can anyone please give details of

CARSTEN SIF in 1967

and

CATHARINA OLDENDORFF in 1963

Some interesting Youtube videos

Some interesting Youtube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xmmAcqhv4E shows a huge tanker entering Willemstad, Curacao.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xmmAcqhv4E shows floating drydocks arriving at Damen Shiprepair, Curacao.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKon0l5hq7s shows an onboard video tour of a container ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOfowTvpGjE shows National Geographic - Hapag Lloyd ESSEN EXPRESS Germany’s largest shipping company - Documentary 2017 

Inshore fishing boat DIGNITY at Troon, Scotland

Jim McMurray e-mails :

The small inshore fishing boat DIGNITY was at Troon

and unattended for the weekend.

In the second image what is the reason

or significance for the tied-in-the-middle fishing net ? just

to the left of the red coloured fish boxes and also the

significance of the blue and white signal flag A which is

flown ?   I am told that the flag is a permanent fixture

on the boat.

A wintry day and AYRESS at West Quay, Troon and discharging a cargo of logs.

Contributed by Jim McMurray.

   A wintry day and AYRESS at West Quay, Troon and discharging a cargo of logs.

Multi-purpose vessel SEVERN SEA at Troon (Firth of Clyde)

Contributed by Jim McMurray.

Clyde Navigation Trust's launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

Clyde Navigation Trust launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

  14 March 2019   @ 1239

Richard Danielson e-mails

 The Clyde Navigation Trust harbour launches: Newark, Garmoyle and

Dunglass have had little written about them. 

I have a photo showing two of them (which two I cannot tell) giving a

tow to the Duchess of Hamilton to help her turn at Bridge Wharf

  in 1969. 

Please ask anyone who knows about the work of the launches

to get in touch with me by email.

Thank You.

Richard Danielson.

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20 March 2019  @ 1604

Jim Howie  (Partick, Glasgow)

   I am replying to Richard’s query about the small boats at Glasgow.

   Sorry to disappoint you Richard but there was a small but bulky booklet produced possibly about 50 years ago that described in great detail all the Clyde Navigation Trust / Clyde Port Authority vessels.   I did have a copy but it’s been lost.

In 1960’s the Clyde Trust / Authority had quite a few vessels.

6 Dredgers : CESSNOCK, CRAIGIEHALL, ELDERSLIE, LENNOX 11, ROSSLYN and SIR WILLIAM H. RAEBURN.

12 Hopper Barges.

1 Dumb grab hopper barge.

1 Tug CLYDE.

4 high-level Vehicular Ferryboats : FINNIESTON, GOVAN and WHITEINCH.  The remaining one was a spare in case of breakdowns.

3 chain-operated ferries : RENFREW and ERSKINE.  The remaining one was a spare in case of breakdowns.

11 passenger ferryboats.

1 60-ton floating crane NEWSHOT.

1 Diving Bell barge.

2 Divers’ motor boats.

1 Oil Separating Barge PLOVER

3 motor launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS.

1 Hydrographic Survey launch CRANNOG.

And a number of very small rope boats which were used in the docks and piers to bring the mooring ropes from ships to the pawls on the dockside.

I think CRANNOG did an awful lot of the surveying for the placement for both Finnart and Hunterston jetties.

And around mid 1990s NEWARK was fitted with an A-frame at the stern and spent a week in Ardrossan Harbour dragging the bottom of Eglinton Dock to clear all debris prior to the construction of the Marina in the dock.

   The motor launches normally berthed at the Trust / Authority workshops at Renfrew although at odd times they laid alongside the dredgers and hoppers in Queen’s Dock.

   If you would care to put the photograph on this site I have a friend who may be able to identify the boats in question.

Jim Howie.

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22 March 2019  @ 1921

J.H. of Scotstoun (Glasgow) emails :

   I well remember reading that wee book a long time ago.   It told of all the wee boats working on the river and had lots of photos of them.   I don’t remember the book name but it gave lots of information on all the boats.

   There were other boats that Jim did not mention

The GARROCH HEAD, SHIELDHALL and DALMARNOCK of the Glasgow City Corporation, working from the Sewage plant near Shieldhall.

The Police boat SEMPER VIGILO.

And the HARRIER of the Clyde River Purification Board.

Another was Ben Parsonage’s MY FAIR LADY ??? of the Glasgow Humane Society and Ben and his son used the boat to search for and find and land the bodies of people who had drowned.

The shipyard D & W Henderson of Meadowside had a launch that towed their punts and painting punts to ships in the river.

And Pilot Boats from Gourock sometimes came up to Glasgow.

Don’t forget the Fireboat ST MUNGO, and there were decrepit old Clyde Puffers that worked from the coaling crane at Queen’s Dock and carried bunker coal to the coal powered steam Dredgers and Hoppers working up and down the river.

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Clyde Navigation Trust's launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

Clyde Navigation Trust launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

  14 March 2019   @ 1239

Richard Danielson e-mails

 The Clyde Navigation Trust harbour launches: Newark, Garmoyle and

Dunglass have had little written about them. 

I have a photo showing two of them (which two I cannot tell) giving a

tow to the Duchess of Hamilton to help her turn at Bridge Wharf

  in 1969. 

Please ask anyone who knows about the work of the launches

to get in touch with me by email.

Thank You.

Richard Danielson.

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Clyde Navigation Trust's launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

Clyde Navigation Trust launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

  14 March 2019   @ 1239

Richard Danielson e-mails

 The Clyde Navigation Trust harbour launches: Newark, Garmoyle and

Dunglass have had little written about them. 

I have a photo showing two of them (which two I cannot tell) giving a

tow to the Duchess of Hamilton to help her turn at Bridge Wharf

  in 1969. 

Please ask anyone who knows about the work of the launches

to get in touch with me by email.

Thank You.

Richard Danielson.

Website Admin Note :

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show e-mail addresses.    Any reply to this interesting request

should be made to our “CONTACT US” and we will forward the message to Richard.

Clyde Navigation Trust's launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

Clyde Navigation Trust launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

  14 March 2019   @ 1239

Richard Danielson e-mails

 The Clyde Navigation Trust harbour launches: Newark, Garmoyle and

Dunglass have had little written about them. 

I have a photo showing two of them (which two I cannot tell) giving a

tow to the Duchess of Hamilton to help her turn at Bridge Wharf

  in 1969. 

Please ask anyone who knows about the work of the launches

to get in touch with me by email.

Thank You.

Richard Danielson.

Website Admin Note :

   For safety and security of our readers we do not normally

show e-mail addresses.    Any reply to this interesting request

should be made to our “CONTACT US” and we will forward the message to Richard.