Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Sailing

Wednesday, June 13, 1962 @ 0835 		RIEVAULX (pronounced Ree- voh as in "Oh Dear" 1958-1973 Ore carrier 505 feet 154m long of Bolton Steam Shipping Company, England : 1984 scrapped China) Own Page

Pilot Taylor using 2 Steel & Bennie tugs sails RIEVAULX from General Terminus Quay, Glasgow
Sailing forPepel (Sierra Leone, West Africa)Port of RegistryMiddlesbrough, England
Sailed from berthGeneral Terminus Quay, GlasgowGross Tonnage10,974
Outward cargoLight ship - no cargo on boardDeadweght Tonnage15,608
Draught forward on sailing7' 00"
Draught aft on sailing22' 02"
Ships agentBISCO (British Iron & Steel Corporation Ltd.)

 

   With Pilot Taylor in charge and assisted by two Steel & Bennie tugs, RIEVAULX left General Terminus Quay, Glasgow and was towed astern the short distance downriver and, stern first entered Prince’s Dock where she turned and then left the Dock and, now moving ahead, started on her journey down the River Clyde on her passage to Sierra Leone, West Africa.