Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Sunday, March 17, 1957 @ 1000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		HOLLAND (1952-2000 IMO 5153462 Ocean salvage tug 57m long of NV Scheepvaart Mij G.Doeksen & Zonen) Own Page

Netherlands tug HOLLAND stands by tanker BARON KILMARNOCK in distress with engine trouble
Port of RegistryNetherlands
Gross Tonnage570

 

   The Glasgow owned Hugh Hogarth / Baron Line tanker

BARON KILMARNOCK broadcast that she was in distress

with engine trouble.


   She reported her position as 50 miles north-west of

Terschelling, Netherlands, and on passage light-ship

from Oslo (Norway) to Texas (USA).


   The Dutch salvage tug HOLLAND of  NV Schheepvaart

Mij G. Doeksen & Zonen attended from Harlingen and

stood by the tanker whose crew were attempting to make repairs.

  

    BARON KILMARNOCK was built in 1953 by the Caledon

Shipyard at Dundee and is registered in Ardrossan, Scotland.