Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Monday, December 17, 1962 @ 1515
SEAWAY (1946 - 1969 Coastal and Harbour tug 114 feet long of Ardrossan Harbour Company, Ardrossan : 1969 Scrapped at Dalmuir, River Clyde) Own Page

Tugs SEAWAY and WRESTLER assist the Shell tanker HALIA into berth at Ardrossan Harbour

Ship's locationArdrossan HarbourPort of RegistryArdrossan
Gross Tonnage260

Ardrossan tug SEAWAY at the bow and Steel & Bennie's tug WRESTLER at the stern assist the Shell "H-class" oil tanker HALIA bow-first from the Ardrossan roadstead into berth 12 - the ocean tanker berth - at Ardrossan Harbour

HALIA would discharge her cargo of fuel oil to the nearby Shell Refinery at North Crescent, Ardrossan