Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Sailing

Wednesday, August 17, 1955 @ 1700
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		WARLIGHT (1919-1964 Steam engined general cargo Crinan Canal size Clyde puffer 86 feet long of Light Shipping / Ross & Marshall, Greenock) Own Page

Clyde puffer WARLIGHT leaves Furnace (Loch Fyne) with 160 tons of Crushed Granite for Glasgow
Sailing forCustom House Quay, GlasgowPort of RegistryGreenock (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)
Sailed from berthFurnace (Loch Fyne) Net Tonnage60
Outward cargoCrushed Granite 160 tonsGross Tonnage135

   On 13 August 1955 Ross & Marshall’s steam Puffer WARLIGHT had loaded 150 tons of Tarred Chips (used in road-making) at Bonawe – account of J & A Gardner Quarry at Bonawe) and brought the cargo to Salen (Loch Sunart, Ardnamurchan Peninsula).

   WARLIGHT discharged her cargo on 15 and 16 August with her crew shovelling the chips (a hard, strenuous job … your writer has done this on PIBROCH) into a large ship’s bucket which was hoisted by the ship’s derrick from the hold and tipped into lorries on the pier.

   The puffer then left Salen and steamed down the Sound of Mull, past Oban and through the Firth of Lorne to Crinan, and travelling through the Crinan Canal to Ardrishaig and making for Furnace (near Lochgilphead in Loch Fyne), arriving at Furnace on 17 August.

   There that afternoon WARLIGHT loaded 160 tons of Crushed Granite (for account of William Sim & Co. Ltd., Glasgow) from the local quarry then left Furnace making her way to Glasgow where she would discharge at Custom House Quay on 18 August.