Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Movement

Thursday, August 11, 1960 @ 0140 		SOUTH AFRICAN PIONEER (1957-1966 General cargo ship 490 feet overall of South African Marine Corporation, Cape Town : 1972 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Own Page

SOUTH AFRICAN PIONEER leaves 1 Meadowside Quay to cant at entrance to Prince's Dock, Glasgow
Port of RegistryKaapstad (Pronounced ka pstet : Afrikaans for "Cape Town")
Net Tonnage5,785
Gross Tonnage9,684

At 0140 on 11th August SOUTH AFRICAN PIONEER left

berth 1 Meadowside Quay, Glasgow (with her head

east = towards the city) and moved upriver to the

entrance to Prince’s Dock where she canted (turned)

and returned downriver to the same berth 1 Meadowside

Quay, but this time with her head west (= facing downriver

= towards Greenock) and arriving at 0310 hours.