Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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Thursday, December 24, 1964 @ 1510 		VESTVARD (1955-1967 Oil products tanker 555 feet long of Kloster Rederi A/S ( Lauritz Kloster Oslo as manager ) Oslo Norway : 1968 scuttled in Caribbean Sea) Own Page

Kloster's Tanker VESTVARD arrives at Ardrossan Harbour with Fuel Oil from Thameshaven
Arrived fromThameshavenPort of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Arrived in berth12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Net Tonnage6,879
Master of vessel on arrivalA LaaneGross Tonnage11,916
Draught aft on arrival25' 03"Deadweght Tonnage18,178
Cargo carried on arrivalFuel oil
Ships agentT L Duff & Company, 13 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan Tel 29 and 40

   About 1430 Ardrossan tug SEAWAY and Steel

 & Bennie tug CHIEFTAIN (Master D McLaughlin)

 met the Norwegian tanker VESTVARD at the Roadstead,

about 2 miles off Ardrossan Harbour and connected their towlines, SEAWAY at the tanker’s bow and CHIEFTAIN

at the tanker’s stern.

   Both tugs then towed VESTVARD from the

Roadstead and through the Harbour entrance and

berthed her at berth 12 Ocean Tanker Berth, where

 she would discharge her cargo of Fuel Oil through

pipelines to the nearby Shell Oil Refinery at

North Crescent Road, Ardrossan.

   On being released by the Pilot at 1525, tug SEAWAY

returned to her berth in Ardrossan and CHIEFTAIN

left Ardrossan to return the 30 miles to her base

at Greenock.