SailingWednesday, November 27, 1963 @ 2100 |
GLAUCUS (1963-1964 General cargo liner (formerly MONMOUTHSHIRE) 453 feet long of Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line, Liverpool) |
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Blue Funnel's GLAUCUS leaves Glasgow for Singapore and Manila via Birkenhead |
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Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel cargo liner GLAUCUS arrived at berth 1 King George V Dock, Glasgow at 1650 on 24th November 1963. She had come from Falmouth on the south coast of England via Elderslie Drydock, Glasgow, and was light-ship (had no cargo aboard) and was drawing 13’ 01” forward and 18’ 03” aft. Renfrew Stevedores started loading 1400 tons of general cargo at 0800 on 25th November and completed loading at 2030 on 27th November. GLAUCUS conducted engine trials from 1200 to 1300 on 25th November. The ship left her berth, drawing 15’ 10” forward and 20’ 00” aft, at 2100 on 27th November, and made her way down the River Clyde on passage to Birkenhead then Singapore and Manila. Interestingly GLAUCUS had been built in 1943 and at the end of the war was bought by Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel Line and renamed TELEMACHUS. In 1957 she was transferred to the associated company Glen Line and renamed MONMOUTHSHIRE. In 1963 she reverted to Blue funnel Line and was renamed GLAUCUS, but only lasted till 1964 when she was chartered to China Navigation Company who renamed her NANCHANG. She was scrapped in 1968. |
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