Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Sailing

Saturday, December 26, 1964 @ 0450
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 leaves Ardrossan Harbour for Dingle, River Mersey.

Sailing forDingle (River Mersey, England, U.K.)Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Sailed from berth12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Net Tonnage6,879
Outward cargoFuel oil remaining on boardGross Tonnage11,916
Draught aft on sailing22' 00"Deadweght Tonnage18,178
Master of vessel on sailingA Laane

   At 0430 Ardrossan tug SEAWAY at the stern

and Steel & Bennie tug CHIEFTAIN at the bow

towed the Norwegian tanker VESTVARD astern 

from the berth 12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan

Harbour, through the Harbour entrance to the

Roadstead where the towlines were released

and the tanker left on her 160 miles passage

to the Bar Light Vessel in Liverpool Bay then

to Dingle Oil Terminal in the River Mersey.