Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Monday, March 13, 1961 @ 0940 		HARMATTAN ( 1961 - 1972 General cargo ship 488 feet long of J & C Harrison, London) Own Page

J & C Harrison's new ship HARMATTAN docks in Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow
Arrived in berthElderslie Number 2 Dry-Dock, Elderslie, GlasgowPort of RegistryLondon
Sailed from berthElderslie Number 2 Dry-Dock, Elderslie, Glasgow

HARMATTAN was at Elderslie for drydocking by the builders Lithgows of Port Glasgow prior to being handed over to her owners.

In 1971 she was at anchor off Karachi (Pakistan) when she was struck by a missile fired from an Indian plane (India and Pakistan were at war at the time). She was badly damaged, and was scrapped in Pakistan shortly afterwards in 1972.