Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, November 30, 1962 @ 0900
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		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 at General Terminus Quay, Glasgow bunkers 320 tons of fuel oil from CLYDE ENTERPRISE
Ship's locationGeneral Terminus Quay, Glasgow (with her head east)Port of RegistryOslo (Norway)
Vessel bunkeredSee note belowNet Tonnage8,656
Gross Tonnage17,622
Deadweght Tonnage26,610

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.