Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Monday, February 4, 1963 @ 1940 		KOSSMATELLA (1962-1972 Oil tanker of 556 feet long of "H-class" Shell Tankers Netherlands) Own Page

Tugs SEAWAY and STRONGBOW assist the Shell tanker KOSSMATELLA into the berth at Ardrossan Harbour
Arrived fromStanlow via BelfastPort of RegistryHague (Netherlands)
Arrived in berthArdrossan Harbour berth 12 (Ocean tanker berth)Gross Tonnage19,349
Master of vessel on arrivalH J Roncken
Draught aft on arrival22' 6"
Cargo carried on arrivalPetrol and gas oil
Ships agentT L Duff, Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan

Tug SEAWAY at the bow and the tug STRONGBOW at the stern assist the Shell tanker KOSSMATELLA bow-first from the roadstead into the tanker berth at Ardrossan Harbour. The tanker would pump her cargo of petrol and gas oil through the land pipelines to the nearby Shell Refinery at North Crescent Road, Ardrossan

KOSSMATELLA departed from Ardrossan for Belfast on 8th February.

KOSSMATELLA was built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle (England) in 1953 as HELIX for Shell Tankers U.K. as one of their large fleet of "H"-class oil tankers. She was 555'8" long x 69'5" breadth x 29'9ΒΌ" draft
In 1962 she was transferred to the Shell Dutch Fleet and renamed KOSSMATELLA and registered in s'Gravenhage (Hague, Netherlands) under the Dutch flag

Both as HELIX and KOSSMATELLA she made many calls at Ardrossan Harbour

She was sold for demolition in 1972 and was delivered to shipbreakers on 26th May 1972 at Hsin Kang (China) for scrap.