Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Sailing

Wednesday, October 3, 1962 @ 2015
ALFONSO TERCERO (1960-1969 General cargo coaster length 70 metres of Cia. Maritima Golfo de Viscaya, Bilbao, Spain) Own Page

ALFONSO TERCERO leaves Ardrossan Harbour for Liverpool

Sailing forLiverpoolPort of RegistryBilbao (Spain)
Sailed from berthArdrossan Harbour (Eglinton Dock)Reg Tonnage387
Outward cargoGeneral cargo ROB = Remaining on boardGross Tonnage692
Master of vessel on sailingA Mordaras
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