Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

List Arrivals, Sailings and Events


What/When Ship

Ship Event

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 0800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		ATHLONE CASTLE (1934-1965 Passenger / cargo liner of Union Castle Line, London) Own Page

ATHLONE CASTLE at Cape Town 6 October for Durban
Port of RegistryLondon (England, UK)
Gross Tonnage25,564

Ship Event

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 0800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		HERTFORD (1948-1976 Refrigerated cargo ship 561 feet long of Federal Steam Navigation Company / P & O, London) Own Page

Federal Steam's cargo ship HERTFORD at Auckland 6 October for Dunedin (New Zealand)
Port of RegistryLondon (U.K.)
Gross Tonnage11,276

Arrival

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1100 		INVERTEST ( 1920 - Harbour oiler - steam tanker, 127 feet long of Esso Petroleum, London) Own Page
Arrived fromDunglass oil depot, River ClydePort of RegistryLondon
Arrived in berthGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (alongside KNOB LAKE)Net Tonnage111
Cargo carried on arrivalFuel oilGross Tonnage259
Deadweght Tonnage308

INVERTEST arrived to bunker KNOB LAKE with fuel oil

Ship Event

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1100 		KNOB LAKE Own Page

KNOB LAKE bunkers fuel oil from INVERTEST
Ship's locationGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow

INVERTEST arrived to bunker KNOB LAKE with fuel oil

Sailing

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1130 		CLAN MACDOUGALL (1944-1971 cargo liner 508 feet long of Clan Line Steamers) Own Page

Clan Line's CLAN MACDOUGALL undocks at Elderslie Dry-Dock, Glasgow
Sailed from berthElderslie Number 2 Dry-Dock, Elderslie, GlasgowPort of RegistryGlasgow
Gross Tonnage9710

Sailing

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1155 		INVERTEST ( 1920 - Harbour oiler - steam tanker, 127 feet long of Esso Petroleum, London) Own Page
Sailing forRothesay DockPort of RegistryLondon
Sailed from berthGeneral Terminus Quay (alongside KNOB LAKE)Net Tonnage111
Outward cargoPart same cargoGross Tonnage259
Deadweght Tonnage308

INVERTEST had bunkered KNOB LAKE with fuel oil

Arrival

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1255 		CITY OF SYDNEY ( 1960 - 1971 Cargo liner 511 feet long of Ellerman Line, London) Own Page

Ellerman Line's CITY OF SYDNEY docks at Elderslie Dry-Dock, Glasgow
Arrived in berthElderslie Number 2 Dry-Dock, Elderslie, GlasgowPort of RegistryLondon
Gross Tonnage10,242

CITY OF SYDNEY was a brand new ship built by Barclay Curle at their Clydeholm shipyard in South Street, Whiteinch, Glasgow, and was being dry-docked prior to being handed over to her owners

Sailing

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1545 		POLYTHENE (1953- General cargo coaster 140 feet long of ICI Chemical Company) Own Page
Sailing forWinnington, Cheshire, EnglandPort of RegistryLiverpool
Sailed from berth11 Kingston Dock, GlasgowNet Tonnage153
Outward cargoLightGross Tonnage330
Deadweght Tonnage372

Sailing

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		QUEEN MARY (1936-1940 Passenger liner 1,019.4 ft (310.7 m) of Cunard Line: 1940-1946 Troopship: 1946-1967 returned to service with Cunard Line, Liverpool) Own Page

QUEEN MARY left Southampton 6 October for New York
Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)

Sailing

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 1800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		ORONSAY (1951-1975 Passenger liner 708 feet long of P & O-Orient Line, London) Own Page

ORONSAY left Melbourne 6 October for Sydney
Port of RegistryLondon (England, UK)

Arrival

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 2040 		CERIUM ( in 1960 Conventional general cargo coaster of ICI Company) Own Page
Arrived fromFleetwood
Arrived in berth10 Kingston Dock, Glasgow
Cargo carried on arrivalSoda Ash

Ship Movement

Thursday, October 6, 1960 @ 2100 		KNOB LAKE Own Page

Ore carrier KNOB LAKE shifted westwards 200 feet in Terminus.Quay, Glasgow

Ore carrier KNOB LAKE shifted westwards 200 feet in Terminus.Quay, Glasgow to make space for the imminent arrival of ore carrier ADAK at the eastern end of General Terminus Quay.

News Event

Friday, October 7, 1960 @ 0130 		ADAK (1959-1976 Ore carrier 490 feet overall of Trafik A / B Grangesberg-Oxelosund, / Erland Waldenstrom, Stockholm, Sweden : Scrapped 1984) Own Page

Swedish Ore carrier ADAK arrives at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow from Oxelosund (Sweden)
Arrived fromOxelosund (Sweden)Port of RegistryStockholm (Sweden)
Arrived in berthEast end of General Terminus Quay, Glasgow (Pilot Conway and 2 Clyde Shipping Company tugs)Net Tonnage4,716
Sailing forNarvik (Norway)Gross Tonnage10,812
Sailed from berthEast end of General Terminus Quay, Glasgow (Pilot Graham and 3 Clyde Shipping Company tugs)Deadweght Tonnage14,070
Draught forward on arrival28' 06"
Draught aft on arrival28' 06"
Cargo carried on arrivalIron Ore
Commenced discharge of inward cargo1400 on 7th October
Stevedore discharging inward cargoColvilles Ltd.
Completed discharge of inward cargo1330 on 9th October
Outward cargoLight-ship (= empty of cargo = no cargo on board)
Draught forward on sailing14' 00"
Draught aft on sailing18' 00"
Vessel bunkered7th October bunkered 370 tons of fuel oil from oiler APEXITY
Vessel on ground7th October at 0810, forward 23' 04" aft 25' 05" and 3 feet off wall with even strain on moorings
Ships agentBISCO (British Iron & Steel Corporation)

When sailing she was towed astern from General Terminus Quay

to the entrance to Prince’s Dock where she was canted

(turned around) and then moved ahead downriver to

Greenock and then left the Clyde on passage to

Narvik, Norway

Harbour Event

Friday, October 7, 1960 @ 0900 		Own Page

Ardrossan Harbour now has automatic telephone exchange

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated 7th October 1960

The Post Office Engineering Department have completed the installation of the latest type of private automatic branch exchange at Ardrossan Harbour.

Incoming calls will be dealt with by the switchboard operator as in the past, but all interdepartmental calls can be dialled by the extensions without coming on to the switchboard.

It was explained that one of the main benefits of this arrangement is that a 24-hour service is now available to every department, both internally and to the public exchange, thus increasing the efficiency of the Port organisation.

Harbour Event

Friday, October 7, 1960 @ 0900 		Own Page

1960 Summer Season Passenger and Vehicle Numbers

From "The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald" dated 7th October 1960

Mr. Hamilton, Stationmaster and Goods Agent, Ardrossan, informs that the number of passengers from Ardrossan to Arran during the summer season was 89,749, and the number who returned from Arran via Ardrossan was 76,094.

The number of vehicles shipped from Ardrossan to Arran was 3,906 and the number shipped back to Ardrossan was 3,812.

The number of passengers who sailed from Ardrossan to Belfast this season was 20,806 and the number who returned via Ardrossan was 24,299.

Passengers from Ardrossan to the Isle of Man numbered 27,421 and the number who returned via Ardrossan was 26,769..

The seamens' strike cut out a full week of the Belfast run, and consequently affected the returns.