ArrivalMonday, December 17, 1962 @ 1515 |
WRESTLER (1957-1979 tug 114 feet long of Steel & Bennie, Greenock / Cory Towage)) |
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Tugs SEAWAY and WRESTLER assist the Shell tanker HALIA into berth at Ardrossan Harbour |
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Tug-master Docherty brought the the Steel & Bennie's tug WRESTLER from Greenock to Ardrossan Roadstead and connected to the stern of the Shell "H-class" oil tanker HALIA, and assisted as the Ardrossan tug SEAWAY towed the tanker bow-first from the Ardrossan roads 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 When HALIA was all-fast on the berth, the Ardrossan Pilot released WRESTLER and the tug left the Harbour to return to Greenock |
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