Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Saturday, August 7, 1948 @ 1500 		FORAGER (1947 - 1962 IMO 180395 Harbour and coastal tug 107 feet long of Steel & Bennie, Glasgow : 1984 scrapped Naples, Italy)) Own Page

Tug FORAGER assists USS SICILY to berth in King George V Dock, Glasgow
Ship's locationKing George V Dock, GlasgowPort of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)
Gross Tonnage244

   The United States Navy escort aircraft carrier U.S.S. SICILY

had been towed from Greenock by four tugs of Steel & Bennie Ltd. of Glasgow, tugs WARRIOR and STRONGBOW at the bow and

tugs BRIGADIER and FORAGER at the stern, and was berthing in 

King George V Dock, Glasgow.

   It was quite fitting that the tugs, whose names have

military connotations, were used to handle the vessel.