Ropner's tanker THIRLBY at Ardrossan around 1974

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Interested in your really good website.   Was at Ardrossan Harbour around 1974 on Ropner’s tanker THIRLBY when she was on long term charter to Shell.

A.  (Middlesbrough, England)  Name withheld by request.

Royal Wagenborg's SKAGENBANK at Ayr discharging malted barley from Halmstad, Sweden

It was a cold winter's morning, heavily overcast and the rain was soon to come.

FRI OCEAN at Ayr (Scotland) with a cargo of Soda Ash from Gdansk (Poland)

CLARITY leaving Ayr for Kilroot (Northern Ireland)

   For our records can anyone tell who the owners are and when they acquired the vessel ?

EEMS SPIRIT at Ayr (Scotland) with a cargo of Limestone from Galway (Ireland)

Caledonian MacBrayne's LOCH PORTAIN in Troon Dry Dock for maintenance and repair

WILSON AVILES at Ayr (Scotland) with a cargo of fertilisers from Teesport (England)

It was a heavily overcast morning, the sky covered with thick, grey clouds, occasional light rain with drizzle and a strong southerly wind and really quite cold.   Not a morning to go out for a pleasant and gentle stroll and certainly not the ideal weather to photograph a ship.

ELBSUN leaving Greenock Container Terminal for Bilbao (Spain)

In the second image ELBSUN is passing TIDEFORCE which was at Tail-of-the-Bank anchorage off Greenock Esplanade.   TIDEFORCE is a Tide Class Replenishment Tanker, pennant number A 139, of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, London.

OSAKANA arriving at Greenock Ocean Terminal from China via Antwerp (Belgium) Tilbury and Thamesport

MSC CAGLIARI 1V arrives at Ocean Terminal, Greenock with containers from Le Havre via Liverpool

Caledonian MacBrayne's ISLE OF ARRAN arriving at Ardrossan Harbour from Brodick (Isle of Arran)

Caledonian MacBrayne's ISLE OF ARRAN on passage from Ardrossan to Brodick (Isle of Arran)

HAV ALDA engaged in fish farm operations / fish food in Brodick Bay, Firth of Clyde, Scotland

HAV ALDA was moored in Brodick Bay, Isle of Arran, and engaged in fish farm operations, with the 874m mountain “Goatfell”, the highest mountain in the island, in the background

FURE WEST anchored in Brodick Bay, Firth of Clyde, Scotland and awaiting a berth at Clydebank

Swedish Oil / chemical tanker FURE WEST was anchored in Brodick Bay, Isle of Arran, and waiting to berth in Rothesay Dock, Clydebank, Glasgow, with the 874m mountain “Goatfell”, the highest mountain in the island, in the background

EINSTEIN passing Kilcreggan (Firth of Clyde) outward bound with containers from Greenock to Belfast