Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Bergen Line's passenger ship METEOR leaves Ardrossan on a seven-day “Gardens Cruise”

9^th October 1964

    The National Trust for Scotland have announced that they have arranged three cruises for next year on the passenger ship METEOR of the Bergen Line of Bergen, Norway.

   The first, called the “Western Coasts Cruise” will leave Southampton on 8^th May and will visit Breton Chateaux in France, then Dublin and Inverary and ending at Ardrossan on 14^th May.

   The next cruise, a “Gardens Cruise” starts at Ardrossan on 15^th May and will visit Gardens in Ireland and Scotland and returns to Ardrossan on 22^nd May.

   The final cruise, appropriately called “Islands Cruise” leaves Ardrossan on 22^nd May and will visit Arran and islands of the Western Isles of Scotland, including the remote St. Kilda, and should visit 12 islands in total before finishing at Oban on 29^th May.