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Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0207 		FILEFJELL (1961-1967 Motor ore carrier 605 feet overall of A/S Falkefjell & A/S Dovrefjell / Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo : 1986 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Own Page

FILEFJELL arrives at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow with Iron Ore from San Nicolas (Peru)
Arrived fromSan Nicolas (Peru)Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Arrived in berthGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (with her head east) ..Pilot MacCallum and 3 tugsNet Tonnage8,656
Sailing forMonrovia (Liberia, West Africa)Gross Tonnage17,622
Sailed from berthGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (with her head east) ..Pilot B Taylor and 4 tugsDeadweght Tonnage26,610
Draught forward on arrival31' 01"
Draught aft on arrival31' 00"
Cargo carried on arrivalIron Ore 24,000 tons
Commenced discharge of inward cargo0600 on 30th November
Stevedore discharging inward cargoColvilles Ltd.
Completed discharge of inward cargo1130 on 2nd December
Outward cargoLight-ship (= empty of cargo = no cargo on board) and oil bunkers
Draught forward on sailing13' 01"
Draught aft on sailing21' 02"
Vessel bunkeredSee note below
Ships agentBISCO (British Iron & Steel Corporation)

30th November FILEFJELL bunkered 320 tons of fuel

oil and on 1st December bunkered 110 tons of fuel

oil, both times from oiler CLYDE ENTERPRISE.


On sailing from General Terminus Quay the 605 feet

long  FILEFJELL (Pilot B. Taylor) was towed astern by

4 tugs, passing Queen’s and Prince’s Docks, Yorkhill,

Meadowside and Merklands Quays to King George V

Dock where her stern was put into the dock and she

was canted to port and then proceeded ahead going

downriver to Greenock and the Firth of Clyde and

then on passage to Monrovia, in Liberia, West Africa.