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Tuesday, September 18, 1962 @ 0400 		CERRO BOLIVAR (1955- 1968 Ore carrier 582 feet 177.6m overall, 21.3m breadth of Skips-A/S Vorma ( Torvald Klaveness Rederi A/S Oslo Norway : 1992 scrapped at Bombay, India) Own Page

CERRO BOLIVAR arrives at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow with Iron Ore from Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela)
Arrived fromPuerto Ordaz (Venezuela)Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Arrived in berthGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow ..Pilot Hamilton and 3 Steel & Bennie tugsNet Tonnage7,263
Sailing forPuerto Ordaz (Venezuela)Gross Tonnage12,380
Sailed from berthGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow ..Pilot MacKenzie and 3 Steel & Bennie tugs, canted KG5 DockDeadweght Tonnage18,650
Draught forward on arrival30' 03"
Draught aft on arrival30' 06"
Cargo carried on arrivalIron Ore 18,106 tons
Commenced discharge of inward cargo0600 on 18th September
Stevedore discharging inward cargoColvilles Ltd.
Completed discharge of inward cargo1545 on 19th September
Outward cargoLight-ship (= empty of cargo = no cargo on board) and oil bunkers
Draught forward on sailing13' 07"
Draught aft on sailing14' 05"
Vessel bunkered18th September bunkered 225 then 75 then 60 tons of fuel oil from oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISE
Vessel on groundAt 1040 on 18th September, vessel alongside and draught forward 23' 03" and aft 22' 08"
Ships agentPatrick Henderson & Co., 95 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2. Tel CENtral 9467

At 0400 on 18 September 1962 Pilot Hamilton and 3 Steel & Bennie tugs berthed the 582 feet long ore carrier CERRO BOLIVAR at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow, bringing 18,106 tons of Iron Ore from Puerto Ordaz (Venezuela) for the Colville's Steelworks in Lanarkshire, Scotland.   The ship was on long-term charter to Navios Corporation who had a contract from the US Steel Corporation to carry the Ore from Puerto Ordaz, and, with her draught of 30 feet, she had very little clearance under her in the river channel, and was, as the Pilots and tug crews would describe "smelling the bottom of the river" on her way to Glasgow.