Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Wednesday, October 3, 1962 @ 0645
ALFONSO TERCERO (1960-1969 General cargo coaster length 70 metres of Cia. Maritima Golfo de Viscaya, Bilbao, Spain) Own Page

ALFONSO TERCERO arrives in Ardrossan with a cargo of Woodpulp from Bayonne (France)

Arrived fromBayonne (France)Port of RegistryBilbao (Spain)
Arrived in berthArdrossan Harbour (Eglinton Dock)Reg Tonnage387
Master of vessel on arrivalA MordarasGross Tonnage692
Draught aft on arrival11 feet
Cargo carried on arrivalWoodpulp
Ships agentRennie & Watson, Glasgow

Hans Hasse writes : The end for ALFONSO TERCERO was both sudden and dramatic when, on 11th March 1969 on voyage from Antwerp to Bilbao with a general cargo and textiles and in dense fog near the NOORD HINDER Lightship off the Netherlans's Zeeland coast she was in collision with the Swedish ship BRASILIA and sank