Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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Wednesday, December 4, 1957 @ 1110
CITY OF GUILDFORD (1957-1979 General cargo ship 434 feet long of Ellerman Hall Line, Liverpool : 1984 scrapped at Chittagong, Bangladesh) Own Page

Her maiden voyage : CITY OF GUILDFORD arrives in Glasgow to load cargo for Bombay and Karachi

Arrived fromWallsend (North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK, at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall)Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)
Arrived in berth1 Prince's Dock, Glasgow (Scotland, UK) with her head west Net Tonnage2,517
Sailing forBirkenhead (England, UK) to complete loading, then for Bombay (India) and Karachi (Pakistan)Gross Tonnage4,945
Sailed from berth1 Prince's Dock, Glasgow (Scotland, UK) with her head west Deadweght Tonnage7,760
Draught forward on arrival11 feet 3 inches
Draught aft on arrival19 feet 2 inches
Cargo carried on arrivalSand Ballast 850 tons
Commenced discharge of inward cargo4 December at 13:00
Stevedore discharging inward cargoSmith Coggins
Completed discharge of inward cargo9 December at 10:00
Commened loading outward cargo5 December at 08:00
Outward cargoGeneral cargo 2,700 tons
Stevedore loading outward cargoSmith Coggins
Heavy lifts loaded11 December loaded 2 lifts total 10 tons from floating crane NEWSHOT
Completed loading outward cargo13 December at 16:40
Draught forward on sailing14 feet 2 inches
Draught aft on sailing22 feet 8 inches
Engine trials13 Decembe at 14:30 slow each way
Ships agentCity Line Ltd., 75 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, C.2. Tel. CENtral 9971
Sailed13 December at 18:00 for Birkenhead (England, UK) then for Bombay (India) and Karachi (Pakistan)

This was CITY OF GUILDFORD's maiden voyage (= the first voyage to be made by a brand new ship) as she arrives in Glasgow from her builders Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson's shipyard at Wallsend, River Tyne, England.

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