Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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Tuesday, February 12, 1963 @ 1050 		HMS ABERFORD (1952-1964 "Ford" class seaward defence patrol boat pennant number P 3102 and 117 feet long of Royal Navy, London : 1975 scrapped at Kenya) Own Page

H.M.S. ABERFORD towed from Roadstead to 10 Eglinton Basin, Ardrossan by tug SEAWAY
Arrived fromBarrow-in-Furness (England)Port of RegistryAdmiralty, London (U.K.)
Arrived in berth10 Eglinton Tidal Basin, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)

   Royal Fleet Auxiliary tug BUSTLER arrived at the

roadstead off Ardrossan Harbour having towed the

Royal Navy patrol boat H.M.S. ABERFORD from

Barrow-in-Furness, England.

   At the roadstead BUSTLER handed over the tow

to the Ardrossan Harbour tug SEAWAY which towed

ABERFORD to 10 Eglinton Basin, Ardrossan Harbour

  and then into the Ardrossan Dockyard.