Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Thursday, December 20, 1962 @ 1520
SEAWAY (1946 - 1969 Coastal and Harbour tug 114 feet long of Ardrossan Harbour Company, Ardrossan : 1969 Scrapped at Dalmuir, River Clyde) Own Page

Ardrossan tug SEAWAY assists Shell coastal tanker FRAGUM to leave Ardrossan Harbour

Ship's locationArdrossan HarbourPort of RegistryArdrossan
Gross Tonnage260

Ardrossan tug SEAWAY at the bow assists the 46-feet-beam Shell coastal tanker FRAGUM from the berth and through the 58 feet-wide Dock-gate of Ardrossan's Eglinton Dock and out of the Harbour to the roadstead

FRAGUM would have discharged her cargo of fuel oil to the nearby Shell Refinery at North Crescent, Ardrossan

Having released the tug and landed the Harbour Pilot FRAGUM left Ardrossan on passage to Heysham