Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

CLAN FRASER engine trial and a rope across King George V Dock, Glasgow

4 November 2019 

Jim McGoogan e-mails :

   Your article of CLAN FRASER of 8^th January 1964 says a rope

was put across King George V Dock, Glasgow while the ship was

making an engine trial.

   Why put a rope across the dock and where would the rope

be attached to the ship and also attached to the dock ?

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