Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Thursday, June 3, 1948 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		HMS MOORLAND (1938-1970 Mooring Vessel 145 feet long of Royal Navy, London : 1970 sunk as target) Own Page

Admiralty Mooring Vessel H.M.S. MOORLAND finds an empty canoe off Wemyss Bay. Firth of Clyde
Ship's locationFirth of Clyde, Scotland, near the Skelmorlie BuoyPort of RegistryAdmiralty (London, UK)

   An 11-feet long plywood and canvas canoe was found drifting in the Clyde near to the Skelmorlie Buoy off Wemyss Bay by the Admiralty Mooring Vessel H.M.S. MOORLAND.

   There was no sign of any person and no oars were aboard, and the canoe was taken aboard H.M.S. MOORLAND and taken to the Admiralty Mooring Base at Greenock