Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, September 10, 1971 @ 1700
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		FLYING MIST (1962-1981 Tug 111 feet long of Clyde Shipping Company, Glasgow) Own Page

Tug FLYING MIST tows Netherlands coaster CAREBEKA V from Brodick Bay to Ayr
Ship's locationFirth of Clyde, Scotland, between Ayr and Brodick, Isle of ArranPort of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Gross Tonnage184

 

 During the stormy weather on Wednesday a cargo ship had to be towed into Brodick Bay.

   The CAREBEKA V from Sfax in north Africa had been approaching Ayr when she developed rudder and propeller trouble.   The ship, with its cargo of phosphate, requested tug assistance.

   The tug WARRIOR arrived from Greenock but owing to weather conditions it was decided that Brodick would be the most convenient bay to which to tow the ship.

   The ship had to stay off the Isle of Arran until Friday when FLYING MIST, another Greenock tug, towed her to Ayr.

 

   ADDITIONAL NOTE  : By Hendrik Stoll.

   1986-06-27: Final Fate: On passage from Landskrona (Sweden) to Ghent (Belgium) with a cargo of stone, due to a collision in thick fog with Norwegian passenger ship "PETER WESSEL" in Skaw (Danish coast) sunk in pos. 57.44.N. - 10.47.E. Eight of the eleven people on board perished here.