Burns & Laird's LAIRDSROCK leaves Greenock for Belfast and shelters from Gale in Loch Ryan

Anchor Line's CIRCASSIA closes at Birkenhead for cargo for Port Said, Aden, Karachi and Bombay

MAIDAN scheduled to leave Birkenhead for Eastern ports

Everard's coaster ACTUALITY at Princes Pier, Greenock for engine repairs by her own engineers

Burns & Laird's LAIRDSROCK leaves Belfast for Greenock

LAIRDSBURN leaves Greenock with a cargo of steel for the Harland & Wolff shipyard at Belfast

Advert in 1960 for ship repairs at Ayr (Scotland) and Dry Docks at Blackwall and Tilbury (London)

FISSER & v. DOORNUM (Shipowners in Emden, Germany) in 1960

FISSER  &  v.  DOORNUM  (EMDEN)

Offices  :  Ringstrasse  43,  Emden  (Ostfr.),  Germany

Telegraphic Address :  "Fissership"

Telephone  :   2341

Telex  :  027825              

Marine & Engineer Superintendent  :  Kapitan  JOHANN DE BUHR,  (Emden)

FLEET IN 1960

CARL FISSER,  Built  1951

ELISABETH HENDRIK FISSER,  Built  1953

FRANCISKA HENDRIK FISSER,  Built  1952

HENDRIK FISSER,  Built  1950

KLOSTERTOR,  Built  1954

BROOKTOR,  Built  1954

LAIRDSBURN arrives in Belfast with a cargo of steel for the Harland & Wolff shipyard

Lyle Shipping's CAPE SABLE departs London on maiden voyage carrying 1,000 cars

      In February the Lyle shipping Company took delivery of the cargo ship CAPE SABLE (10,900 tons) from William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, and she sailed from London on her maiden voyage with 1,000 cars, one of the biggest cargoes of this type ever to leave this country.

   In the CAPE SABLE, and in her sister ship CAPE WRATH, now being fitted-out at Dumbarton, the cargo space can be divided into motor-car platforms, six to a hold, about 900 tons of timber planking being laid on steel framework to augment the deck space.   When the cars are unloaded the planks can be arranged to make the ships grain-carriers and the steel supporting joists hinged into the ships’ sides.

   A further five ships in the Lyle fleet are also fitted for the carriage of cars. 

Cunard Line's ASSYRIA closes at London for cargo for Halifax, N.S. and Saint John, N.B.(via Havre)

Car ferry GLEN SANNOX rescues a man from the water off Isle of Arran

   The Caledonian Steam Packet car ferry GLEN SANNOX was on passage on her evening trip from Fairlie to Brodick (Isle of Arran)

and was nearing Brodick when a passenger rushed to the bridge telling of seeing a person in distress in the water off Corrie.

   GLEN SANNOX was immediately turned and saw a man wearing

a lifejacket and struggling in the freezing sea.

   A lifeboat was lowered and the man, aged 29 years, was pulled

from the water and brought onto the ship.

   He told of paddling his canoe off Corrie (a small village a few

miles north along the coast from Brodick) and the canoe filled

with water and sank.   He had been some time in the sea and

was suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia (a dangerous

drop in body temperature) and the water, even at that time of

year is very, even bitterly cold.

   When GLEN SANNOX arrived at Brodick the man was taken

ashore and removed by ambulance to the Cottage Hospital at

Lamlash for treatment.

The coastal tanker "Shell Driller" arrives with a cargo of Kerosene

Colin German, a canoeist, rescued by "Glen Sannox"

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" newspaper dated 4th March 1960.

Rescued by "Glen Sannox"

A 29 year old electronics engineer, Mr. Colin German, was rescued by the Clyde car ferry "Glen Sannox" after his canoe sank off Arran on Tuesday evening.

Mr. German, who works at the Marine Biological Station at Millport was taking his canoe from Corrie when the mishap occurred.

His Mae West kept him afloat, and a passenger on the "Glen Sannox" spotted him in the water.
The ship turned, and a lifeboat was lowered.

The rescue operation was carried out in a short time, and Mr. German, suffering from exhaustion and exposure, was taken to Brodick, where a Doctor and Ambulance were standing by.
He was removed to Lamlash Hospital.

"Shell Driller" leaves Ardrossan for Faslane