News EventTuesday, May 17, 1955 @ 0800The date is correct but correct time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate |
RAYLIGHT (1938-1958 Steam engined Clyde puffer lighter 66 feet long of Light Shipping Company / Ross & Marshall, Greenock : 1958 scrapped at Smith & Houston Shipbreakers, Port Glasgow) |
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RAYLIGHT was having boiler cleaning and repairs at Ross & Marshall repair yard at Greenock |
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You may like to know of RAYLIGHT's excursion before her coming to the repair yard. On 3rd May the Puffer RAYLIGHT was at Ayr (Firth of Clyde) and loaded 113 tons 11 hundredweights of coal for R. Cameron at Applecross. Also loaded 10 tons 3 hundredweights of coal for her bunkers (remember she was a steam powered coaster and needed coal to power her engine.) 4th and 5th May brought high-force winds and the vessel was windbound in Ayr Harbour and could not leave. On 6th May the wind moderated and RAYLIGHT left for Applecross. It is not known whether she went around the Mull of Kintyre or through the Crinan Canal but it's more likely she rounded Mull of Kintyre. 9th May she was at Applecross and discharging the coal. It is very likely that the puffer would have to beach on the sandy shore and discharge her cargo of coal by the ships derrick and steel bucket into lorries and carts which came alongside the ship at low tide. RAYLIGHT finished discharging on 11th May and left for Greenock. On 12th she passed through the Crinal Canal and on reaching Ardrishaig replenished her coal bunkers. On 13th May arrived at the Ross & Marshall repair yard at Greenock for boiler cleaning and repairs. 18th May saw her back in operation at Troon to load a cargo of coal for Dunoon.
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