Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Wednesday, September 14, 1955 @ 0800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		LIMELIGHT (1948-1963 steam general cargo puffer lighter Crinan Canal type 66 feet long of Light Shipping Company / Ross & Marshall, Greenock : scrapped at Dalmuir 1966) Own Page

Ross & Marshall's Steam Clyde Puffer LIMELIGHT on passage from Troon to Furnace (Loch Long)
Port of RegistryGreenock (UK)
Gross Tonnage96
Deadweght Tonnage140

 LIMELIGHT had delivered 3000 cases of Beer

 (52 tons 3 cwts) from Paisley to Belfast and had

brought empty cases from Belfast to Kingston Dock,

 Glasgow.    13th at Troon but her cargo was not ready

 and she was ordered to go to Furnace (Loch Fyne)

 and load Granite Chips for Custom House Quay,

 Glasgow (account of William Sim & Co. Ltd.).