List Arrivals, Sailings and Events

What/When	Ship
Ship Event Thursday, January 12, 1956 @ 1700 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate	DEVANHA (1947-1961 General cargo ship of P & O Line, London)	Own Page
DEVANHA closes at London for receiving cargo for Eastern Ports
Port of Registry London (UK) Gross Tonnage 7,367
Ship Event Saturday, January 14, 1956 @ 1700 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only	COLOMBIE (1931-1964 Passenger Liner 488 feet long of Companie Generale Transatlantique French Line, Le Havre: Scrapped 1974)	Own Page
COLOMBIE leaves Southampton for West Indies
Ship's location Southampton (England, UK) Port of Registry Le Havre (France) Sailing for West Indies Gross Tonnage 13,381
Ship Event Saturday, January 14, 1956 @ 1700	HELLENES (in 1955 Conventional general cargo ship ... at Madras, India and Chittagong)	Own Page
HELLENES on Clan Line charter closes Birkenhead for cargo for Aden, Colombo, Madras and Chittagong
Ship Event Monday, January 16, 1956 @ 1700	RHODESIA CASTLE (1951-1967 Passenger / cargo liner of Union Castle Line, London)	Own Page
Union Castle's RHODESIA CASTLE closes for cargo at London for South and East Africa
Ship's location London (UK) Port of Registry London (England, UK) Sailing for South and East Africa
Ship Event Thursday, January 19, 1956 @ 1700	RHODESIA CASTLE (1951-1967 Passenger / cargo liner of Union Castle Line, London)	Own Page
Union Castle's RHODESIA CASTLE closes for cargo at Rotterdam for South and East Africa
Ship's location Rotterdam (Netherlands) Port of Registry London (England, UK) Sailing for South and East Africa
Arrival Friday, January 20, 1956 @ 0800 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only	MIYOTAMA MARU (General cargo ship of Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Tokyo)	Own Page
O.S.K. Line MIYOTAMA MARU due at Lagos (Nigeria)
Port of Registry Tokyo (Japan)
News Event Friday, January 20, 1956 @ 1000 ACTUAL DATE and TIME are unknown and those shown are our best estimate		Own Page
1956 Advert by Ellerman & Bucknall for their services from Australia and their Agents there
Ship Event Friday, January 20, 1956 @ 1700 THIS DATE IS APPROXIMATE, and is our best estimate of the correct date	LIBERTE (1946-1962 Passenger Liner 936.7 ft (283.5 m) long of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique "French Line": Scrapped 1963)	Own Page
LIBERTE leaves Southampton for New York
Ship's location Southampton (England, UK) Port of Registry Le Havre (France) Sailing for New York (USA) Gross Tonnage 49,746
News Event Monday, January 23, 1956 @ 1710	MARTABAN (1949-1952 Passenger / cargo ship 462 feet long of Patrick "Paddy" Henderson's Line, Glasgow : 1952-1965 taken over by Elder Dempster Line)	Own Page
Henderson Line's MARTABAN arrives at Springfield Quay, Glasgow to discharge then load for Rangoon
Arrived from Prince's Dock, Glasgow Port of Registry Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) Arrived in berth 29 / 31 Springfield Quay, Glasgow (with her head west) Gross Tonnage 5,740 Sailing for Rangoon (Burma) via Birkenhead Sailed from berth 29 / 31 Springfield Quay, Glasgow (with her head west) Draught forward on arrival 6' 05" Draught aft on arrival 16' 02" Cargo carried on arrival Part general cargo (inwards) Commenced discharge of inward cargo 1800 on 23rd January Stevedore discharging inward cargo James Spencer & Company, 165 Finnieston Street, Glasgow, C 3 Tel CEN 5224 (5 lines) Commened loading outward cargo 0930 on 24th January Outward cargo General cargo Stevedore loading outward cargo James Spencer & Company, 165 Finnieston Street, Glasgow, C 3 Tel CEN 5224 (5 lines) Completed loading outward cargo 1130 on 29th January Draught forward on sailing 11' 10" Draught aft on sailing 17' 03" Ships agent Patrick Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2. Tel CENtral 9467
Ship Event Tuesday, January 24, 1956 @ 1700 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only	HISTORIAN (1948 - 1962 General cargo ship of T & J Harrison, Liverpool)	Own Page
Harrison's HISTORIAN closes at Birkenhead for receiving cargo for South and East Africa
Port of Registry Liverpool
Ship Event Tuesday, January 24, 1956 @ 1700	HISTORIAN (1948 - 1962 General cargo ship of T & J Harrison, Liverpool)	Own Page
Harrison Line's HISTORIAN closes at Birkenhead for receiving cargo for South and East Africa
Port of Registry Liverpool
Sailing Saturday, January 28, 1956 @ 1700 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only	RYNDAM (or RIJNDAM) (1951-1966 Passenger / cargo Liner 153m 503ft of Holland America Line "Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij", Rotterdam : Sank 2003 on way to Breakers)	Own Page
Holland America Liner RYNDAM (or RIJNDAM) leaves Southampton for New York via Cobh and Halifax
Sailing for New York (USA) via Cobh and Halifax Port of Registry Rotterdam (Netherlands) Gross Tonnage 15,015
Sailing Sunday, January 29, 1956 @ 1255	MARTABAN (1949-1952 Passenger / cargo ship 462 feet long of Patrick "Paddy" Henderson's Line, Glasgow : 1952-1965 taken over by Elder Dempster Line)	Own Page
Henderson Line's MARTABAN leaves Springfield Quay, Glasgow for Rangoon (Burma) via Birkenhead
Arrived from Prince's Dock, Glasgow Port of Registry Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) Arrived in berth 29 / 31 Springfield Quay, Glasgow (with her head west) Gross Tonnage 5,740 Sailing for Rangoon (Burma) via Birkenhead Sailed from berth 29 / 31 Springfield Quay, Glasgow (with her head west) Draught forward on arrival 6' 05" Draught aft on arrival 16' 02" Cargo carried on arrival Part general cargo (inwards) Commenced discharge of inward cargo 1800 on 23rd January Stevedore discharging inward cargo James Spencer & Company, 165 Finnieston Street, Glasgow, C 3 Tel CEN 5224 (5 lines) Commened loading outward cargo 0930 on 24th January Outward cargo General cargo Stevedore loading outward cargo James Spencer & Company, 165 Finnieston Street, Glasgow, C 3 Tel CEN 5224 (5 lines) Completed loading outward cargo 1130 on 29th January Draught forward on sailing 11' 10" Draught aft on sailing 17' 03" Ships agent Patrick Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2. Tel CENtral 9467
News Event Sunday, February 5, 1956 @ 1000	THE STATE OF MADRAS (in 1956 Passenger / cargo liner of Eastern Shipping Corporation, India)	Own Page
Indian Government report in 1956 recommends abolition of deck passengers on Indian ships
Ship's location Madras (= since 1996 renamed as Chennai : Tamil Nadu, India) Port of Registry India
News Event Wednesday, February 8, 1956 @ 0800 DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate	CLAN SUTHERLAND (1951-1971 general cargo ship 513 feet long of The Clan Line Steamers Ltd / , Cayzer, Irvine & Co., Glasgow)	Own Page
CLAN SUTHERLAND due to arrive at Kakinadu (India) to load cargo on homeward voyage
Sailing for Madras, Aden, Port Said, London, Rotterdam, Liverpool and Glasgow Port of Registry Glasgow (Scotland, U.K.) Ships agent Gordon Woodroffe & Co. (Madras) Ltd., P.O. Box 47, Madras 1 (India) Net Tonnage 3,864 Gross Tonnage 8,338 Deadweght Tonnage 10,870

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