Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

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Tuesday, May 10, 1955 @ 0800
The date is correct but correct time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate 		LIMELIGHT (1948-1963 steam general cargo puffer lighter Crinan Canal type 66 feet long of Light Shipping Company / Ross & Marshall, Greenock : scrapped at Dalmuir 1966) Own Page

LIMELIGHT caught a rope around her propeller at Brodick (Arran) and was towed to Ardrossan
Ship's locationBrodick Pier, Brodick (Isle of Arran, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, UK)Port of RegistryGreenock (UK)
Ships agentRoss & Marshall Ltd., 98 West George Street, Glasgow, C.2. Tel DOUglas 4294Gross Tonnage96
Deadweght Tonnage140

LIMELIGHT was on hire from 9 May to around 22 May 1955 to British Railways (Scotland) and on 10 May, while working at Brodick Pier, had caught a rope around her propeller. and had to be towed to Ardrossan Harbour to free the propeller.