Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Sailing

Thursday, July 15, 1965 @ 0530 		VITAL SPARK (Temporarily renamed from SAXON) Clyde Puffer hired from Walter Kerr, Millport by BBC Television Own Page

VITAL SPARK leaves Glasgow for Millport
Sailing forMillport (Isle of Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde)Port of RegistryGlasgow
Sailed from berth21 South Basin, Queen's Dock, Glasgow
Outward cargoLight

The Clyde puffer SAXON of J & J Hay, Glasgow, had been hired from the Company by BBC Television to appear in a comedy series, and the vessel was temporarily renamed for the programmes as VITAL SPARK, and it was under this name that she left Glasgow for Millport.