Arrival
Wednesday, November 22, 1961 @ 0025
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LIMELIGHT (1948-1963 steam general cargo puffer lighter Crinan Canal type 66 feet long of Light Shipping Company / Ross & Marshall, Greenock : scrapped at Dalmuir 1966) |
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Puffer LIMELIGHT arrives in Glasgow with a cargo of crushed granite from Loch Fyne |
| Arrived from | Furnace (A village in Argyll, Scotland, on North bank of Loch Fyne = pronounced "fine") | Port of Registry | Greenock (UK) |
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| Arrived in berth | 10 North Quay, Queen's Dock, Glasgow | Gross Tonnage | 96 |
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| Cargo carried on arrival | Granite chips (often used to make extremely hard-wearing doorsteps for buildings) | Deadweght Tonnage | 140 |
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LIMELIGHT had berthed in Queen's Dock in the night-time to wait for early morning daylight before moving upriver under the low City bridges to Custom House Quay at Clyde Street, Glasgow to discharge her cargo of crushed granite |