SHELL MEX 5 comes alongside IRISH ELM and bunkers her with 300 tons of fuel oil

IRISH ELM bunkers 300 tons of fuel oil from oiler SHELL MEX 5

   Irish Shipping’s cargo ship IRISH ELM arrived at berth 3 Meadowside Quay, Glasgow at 1525 on 19^th March 1957.

   Two Clyde Shipping Company tugs brought her to the berth and she tied up with her head west (that is heading downriver) and drawing 24’ 02” forward and 26’ 00” aft and was carrying 7,500 tons of grain from Philadelphia U.S.A.   Her Agent in Glasgow was the John S Braid Company.

   At 1100 on 20^th March, to position the ship for unloading, IRISH ELM shifted along the quayside to berth 2, her draught being unchanged.

   Clyde Navigation Trust began unloading the grain to the adjacent huge Meadowside Granary at 1300 on 20^th March and completed discharge at 1815 on 25^th March.

   On 22^nd March the harbour oiler SHELL MEX 5 came alongside and bunkered her with 300 tons of fuel oil and on 25^th March SHELL MEX 5 again came alongside, this time bunkering her with 220 tons of fuel oil.

   Assisted by two Clyde Shipping tugs, IRISH ELM left her berth light ship (= no cargo on board = empty of cargo) at 2155 on 25^th March and, drawing 11’ 00” forward and 18’ 00” aft, made her way down the River Clyde and out past Ireland and across the Atlantic Ocean to Key West in Florida, U.S.A. for orders.   Quite quaintly, the Dock Log-Book describes Key West as “Quay West.”

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Elder Dempster's PATANI closes at London for receiving cargo for West African Ports

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BLOEMFONTEIN CASTLE closes at London for receiving cargo for West, South and East Africa

Alfred Holt's TANTALUS closes at Birkenhead for receiving cargo for Far Eastern ports

Alfred Holt's PHEMIUS closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for Far Eastern ports

Alfred Holt's ATREUS closes at Swansea for receiving cargo for Far Eastern ports

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CLAN MACBETH left Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzaniya) for Zanzibar

PORT ALMA leaves Geelong (Australia) for Hobart (Tasmania, Australia)

Port Line's PORT ALMA leaves Geelong (Australia) for Hobart (Tasmania)

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