Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Greek tramp ship K HADJIPATERAS leaves Glasgow with 9650 tons of scrap for Osaka (Japan)

The Greek ship K HADJIPATERAS tied-up in Prince's Dock at 1645 on 12th March 1962 from Kelvin Dry Dock, Glasgow, to load scrap metal for Japan.

At 0700 on 19th March she shifted Westwards along the dock wall from berth 27 to berth 27/28 Prince's Dock. Her draught forward was 14' 8" and aft 22' 7"

The following afternoon, 20th March, at 1215, she shifted Eastwards along the dock wall to her previous berth 27 Prince's Dock, draught forward being 15' 6" and aft 24 feet.

At 0710 on 21st March when low water at Govan, the ship was sitting on the ground (sitting on the bottom sea-bed of the dock berth) her draught being 24 feet aft and 15' 9" forward.

On 21st March at 1425 she bunkered 125 tons of fuel oil from the harbour oiler INVERTEST

Having completed loading K HADJIPATERAS departed Prince's Dock for Osaka (Japan) with her cargo of 9650 tons of scrap at 1933 on 31st March 1962

Historical information about the ship.

K HADJIPATERAS was built in 1943 by Todd-Houston Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas,as a wartime Liberty ship, class EC2-S-C1, and completed in July 1943 as GEORGE C CHILDRESS and served the US Government from 1943 to 1947.
They sold her in 1947 to J & A Hadjipateras, Piraeus, Greece, who renamed her K HADJIPATERAS and employed her worldwide as a general tramp ship.
On 27th July 1967, whilst on a voyage from Calcutta to Rangoon (Burma) with a cargo of coal, she ran aground on a reef at Koronje Island, 35 miles north of Pagoda Point off Bassein, Burma and quickly sank.