Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Wednesday, September 7, 1955 @ 0800
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate
RAYLIGHT (1938-1958 Steam engined Clyde puffer lighter 66 feet long of Light Shipping Company / Ross & Marshall, Greenock : 1958 scrapped at Smith & Houston Shipbreakers, Port Glasgow) Own Page

Ross & Marshall's Clyde Puffer RAYLIGHT discharging a cargo of coal at Dunoon

Port of RegistryGreenock (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)
Net Tonnage38
Reg Tonnage73
Gross Tonnage96

RAYLIGHT was at the Coal Pier, Dunoon, discharging a

cargo of coal (for the account of A Blackwood, Esq.)

which she had brought from Troon.    After discharging

RAYLIGHT left for Glenarm in Northern Ireland to load

a cargo of Limestone for Glasgow, but, owing to

weather conditions in the North Channel, she had to

divert to Campbeltown for shelter, and remained

windbound in Campbeltown for six days before being

able to continue on passage to Glenarm.