Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Thursday, March 21, 1963 @ 0715 		SEAWAY (1946 - 1969 Coastal and Harbour tug 114 feet long of Ardrossan Harbour Company, Ardrossan : 1969 Scrapped at Dalmuir, River Clyde) Own Page

Tug SEAWAY assists at bow in docking Shell tanker HINEA at Ardrossan Harbour
Ship's location12 Ocean Tanker Berth, Ardrossan Harbour (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryArdrossan
Gross Tonnage260

 Ardrossan Harbour tug SEAWAY at the bow and

Steel & Bennie tug CAMPAIGNER (tugmaster G Cronk)

at the stern  towed the “H”-class Shell UK ocean tanker

HINEA from Ardrossan Roadstead through the Ardrossan

Harbour entrance and berthed the tanker at berth 12

Ocean Tanker berth at 0715am.

   At 0725am when HINEA was all fast at the berth the

Harbour Pilot released both tugs and CAMPAIGNER

left Ardrossan to make her 28 mile passage back to

Victoria Harbour in Greenock.