Ship: Lairdsfield
| Port of Registry: |
Glasgow |
| Net Tonnage: |
272 |
| Reg Tonnage: |
- |
| Gross Tonnage: |
504 |
| Deadweight Tonnage: |
760 |
A cargo ship, completed in 1953 at Deest, Holland, for Dutch owners, and named "Coolsingel."
Length 53.2 metres, beam 8.6 metres, and her diesel engine drove a single propeller to give a service speed of 11 knots.
Sold in 1955 and renamed Greenfield.
Sold in 1966 to Glasgow shipowners Burns & Laird and renamed Lairdsfield.
A tragic end came about 6.30 pm on 6th February 1970 when, with a cargo of steel plates on a voyage from Middlesborough to Cork, she capsized one mile east of Tees fairway buoy, England, and all of the crew were drowned.
She was raised and broken up at Middlesborough in March 1970.
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Lairdsfield leaving Ardrossan, passing Winton Pier, Courtesy of Colin Campbell |
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Lairdsfield : Courtesy of Colin Campbell |
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Lairdsfield leaving Ardrossan on 9th May 1967 : Courtesy of Bill Hamilton |
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