Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, January 3, 1964 @ 0900
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		CENTAUR (1964- 1975 Passenger / cargo ship 481 feet long of Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel / Ocean Transport & Trading Company, Liverpool) Own Page

New ship CENTAUR at 1 King George V Dock, Glasgow bunkers 30 tons fuel oil from CLANITY
Arrived fromTail-of-the-Bank anchorage off Greenock on trials (being a new ship from John Brown's, Clydebank)Port of RegistryLiverpool
Arrived in berth1 King George V Dock, Glasgow (with her head South)
Sailing forSingapore via Liverpool
Sailed from berth1 King George V Dock, Glasgow (with her head South)
Draught forward on arrival18' 07"
Draught aft on arrival25' 08"
Cargo carried on arrivalLight-ship (= empty of cargo = no cargo on board)
Commened loading outward cargo1500 on 30th December
Outward cargoGeneral cargo 100 tons
Stevedore loading outward cargoRenfrew Stevedoring Company Limited, King George V Dock, Glasgow, S.W.1. Telephone GOVan 2241
Completed loading outward cargo1500 on 31st December
Draught forward on sailing21' 02"
Draught aft on sailing25' 03"
Engine trialsHauled off quay from 0710 to 0745 on 4 January 1964
Vessel bunkered3 January 1964 bunkered 30 tons of fuel oil and on 6 January 30 tons fuel oil, both from CLANITY
Ships agentRoxburgh, Colin Scott & Co. Ltd., 69 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, C. 1.

From 0645 to 0745 on 3rd January 1964 CENTAUR

 was hauled 60 feet off the Quay for stabilizer

 tests.