Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Tuesday, September 18, 1962 @ 1300
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		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 at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow bunkers 75 tons of fuel oil from CLYDE ENTERPRISE
Ship's locationGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Vessel bunkered18th September bunkered 225 then 75 then 60 tons of fuel oil from oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISENet Tonnage7,263
Gross Tonnage12,380
Deadweght Tonnage18,650

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.