Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Wednesday, November 7, 1962 @ 1000 		EMPRESS OF CANADA (1961-1972 Passenger liner 650 feet 198 metres of Canadian Pacific Steamships, Liverpool) 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 RegistryLiverpool
Arrived fromLiverpoolGross Tonnage27,284
Arrived in berthTail-of-the-Bank (the anchorage off Greenock, River Clyde)Deadweght Tonnage9,400

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.