News EventMonday, October 6, 1969 @ 1100DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only |
MASKELIYA (1954-1969 General cargo ship 472 feet overall of Thos & Jno Brocklebank / Cunard Brocklebank, Liverpool : 1972 Scrapped) |
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Anchor Line Purser drowns at Glasgow despite efforts by Engineer from MASKELIYA to save him |
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62-year old Mr. Andrew Young of Glasgow, a Purser with Anchor Line, drowned at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow when he was reversing his car and it accidentally went over the quayside and fell about 30 feet (10 metres) into the water. Mr Young and a companion had arrived at the Brocklebank Line cargo ship MASKELIYA and the companion had boarded the ship when he saw the car reversing at the quayside and topple backwards over the edge. The 28-year old Mr. James Gannon of Huyton, Lancashire, Third Engineer on MASKELIYA heard the shouting and rushed to the quayside and jumped into the water, trying four times to reach the submerged car but without success as the water was too deep. The Glasgow Fireboat ST MUNGO from her station at the other end of Yorkhill Quay and the Police Launch SEMPER VIGILO were on the scene within minutes and a fireman jumped into the water and attempted to hook a rope line to the sunken car but was unsuccessful. The car had somersaulted as it sank and was resting on its roof on the riverbed with some of the windows broken. A diver from Clydeport recovered the body about an hour later and a crane lifted the car from the water,
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