CALTEX TANGANYIKA leaves Botany Bay for Gladstone

Bank Line's SPRINGBANK arrives at Melbourne from Geelong

AMERICAN ANGLER arrived at New York (USA) from Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium)

Captain Gun Cunninghame of KENYA is appointed Commodore Commander of British India S.N.Co

ST ARVANS closes Antwerp for receiving cargo for Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires

Royal Mail's BALANTIA closes at London for receiving cargo for Caribbean Ports

Pacific Steam's SANTANDER leaves London for South American ports

Houlder Brothers BARTON GRANGE leaves Swansea for Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Rosario

Ben Line's BENDORAN closes at London for receiving cargo for Singapore and Bangkok

BEN   LINE

TO

FAR   EAST

(r)  BENDORAN  ….  Closing London March 24

for Singapore and Bangkok

‡  BENWYVIS  …. 

Closing Antwerp Mar 25  ..  London Mar 29  ..  Southampton Apr 2

for  Penang,  Singapore,  Port Swettenham,  Hong  Kong

BENATTOW

Closing Hamburg Mar 25,  Antwerp Apr 1,  London Apr 8

for Singapore,  Bangkok,  Manila,  Cebu

‡  BENLAWERS

Closing Hamburg Apr 6  ..  Middlesbrough Apr 12  …  London Apr 17

for Penang,  Port Swettenham,  Singapore,  Hong Kong

BENALBANACH

Closing Hamburg Apr 15  …  London Apr 23

for  Singapore,  Port Swettenham,  Bangkok

‡ Keelung with transhipment    (r) Refrigerator space

London Loading Berth :  C Shed, Victoria Dock

KILLICK MARTIN & CO. LTD. (Brokers)

20 Mark Lane, E.C.3.    MINcing Lane 3100  (32 lines)

WM. THOMSON & CO., EDINBURGH  Managers

Sailing Notice for Osaka Shosen Kaisha in March and April 1957

ANDES MARU leaves Hamburg for Far East Ports via Panama

LISSY SCHULTE on Furness Withy charter opens at London for receiving cargo for Great Lakes

MANCHESTER PROSPECTOR opens at Manchester for receiving cargo for Toronto and Hamilton (Canada)

SHELL MEX 5 comes alongside IRISH ELM and bunkers her with 220 tons of fuel oil

IRISH ELM bunkers 220 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.”