Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Wednesday, November 7, 1962 @ 1000 		CLOCH LASS (1963-1966 steam general cargo Clyde puffer lighter 66 feet long of William Burke, Greenock : 1966 scrapped at Dalmuir) Own Page

Puffer CLOCH LASS takes mails to Canadian Pacific's liner EMPRESS OF CANADA at Greenock
Ship's locationDATE shown is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our best estimatePort of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Sailing forEMPRESS OF CANADA anchored at Tail-of-the-Bank anchorage, GreenockGross Tonnage96
Sailed from berthPrince's Pier, GreenockDeadweght Tonnage140
Outward cargoMails for U.S.A.

The puffer CLOCH LASS was on hire to the United States Navy for the month of November 1962 and was engaged in removing "garbage" from U.S.S. PROTEUS and other U.S.Navy vessels.

This day she was at Prince's Pier, Greenock and loaded mails from the U.S. Navy Base and ships and took them to Canadian Pacific's liner EMPRESS OF CANADA which was anchored at the Tail-of-the-Bank anchorage and the liner would take them across the Atlantic to Canada for onward transmission to the U.S.