Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Tuesday, October 31, 1961 @ 1024 		BOER (1941-1964 Steam general cargo Clyde puffer lighter 66 feet long of J & j Hay, Glasgow : 1965 scrapped at Troon) Own Page

BOER arrives at Queen's Dock, Glasgow from Ardrishaig to load a cargo of coal for Dunoon
Arrived fromArdrishaig (Kintyre, Scotland)Port of RegistryGlasgow
Arrived in berth8 Queen's Dock, GlasgowGross Tonnage72
Cargo carried on arrivalLight ship = no cargo on board
Ships agentJ. Hay & Sons Ltd., 45 Renfield Street, Glasgow, C. 2. Tel. CITy 6184

Two of Hay's puffers, BOER and INCA, were chartered by the film-maker to portray the puffer MAGGIE in the comedy film "The MAGGIE"
BOER, a single screw steel lighter, was 66 feet long,17.55 feet breadth and draught of 6.85 feet was built at Kirkintilloch (on the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow) in 1941, and was scrapped in 1965.