Review - June 1965

MV Clan Robertson. Entering East London

Artist: Claude Muncaster

© Courtesy Caledonia Investments

Clan Robertson - Art Gallery

The Launch - May 1965   &   

Maiden Voyage - November 1965

Crew Exchange with HMS Finwhale - August 1969

HMS Finwhale (S05) was the fifth Porpoise class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 21 July 1959 and first commissioned on 19 August 1960. During her first commission she went further under the ice than any other submarine at the time.

She was recommissioned on 27 January 1964. In March 1965 on her second Arctic patrol she further eclipsed her first ice patrol, penetrating 95 miles into the ice. She was present at Portsmouth Navy Days in 1965 and 1966.

While in the Far East she was fitted with an oerlikon deck gun.

She was used as a harbour training vessel between 1979 and 1987. She left under tow for scrapping in Spain on 28 March 1988. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the Fin Whale.

Master

Date

Left

Destination

S S Davidson

11/1965

Liverpool

S Africa


2/1966

Southampton

S Africa


4/1966

Southampton

Montreal

J Browne

7/1966

Southampton

S Africa


9/1966

Liverpool

S & E Africa


2/1967

Hull

S Africa

H M Walden

5/1967

Southampton

S Africa

J Browne

8/1967

London

S & E Africa


12/1967

London

S & E Africa


2/1968

Hamburg

S Africa

A Stacey

6/1968

Birkenhead

S Africa & Mauritius

J Browne

10/1968

Birkenhead

S Africa & Mauritius


1/1969

Rotterdam

S Africa & Beira

R Harber

8/1969

Rotterdam

S Africa & Mauritius


12/1969

Genoa

S Africa & Beira


9/1970

Hamburg

S Africa & Beira

P S Eckford

2/1971

Birkenhead

S Africa


4/1971

Southampton

S Africa


7/1971

Cardiff

S Africa


12/1971

Birkenhead

S Africa


4/1972

London

S Africa

R MacIntyre

6/1972

Le Havre

S Africa

F King

8/1972

Antwerp

S Africa


12/1972

London

E Africa

N F Wray-Cook

5/1973

Southampton

S Africa

R Wilson

7/1973

Marseilles

S Africa

N F Wray-Cook

9/1973

Hamburg

S Africa & Beira


1/1974

Middlesbrough

S Africa


6/1974

Hull

S Africa


8/1974

Cardiff

S Africa

J Caley

11/1974



N F Wray-Cook

3/1975



J Caley

7/1975

Lourenco Marques


T Kirby

6/1976


Bordeaux


11/1976

Mombasa

Balmoral Castle

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Career Summary

1976 Transferred to Union-Castle renamed Balmoral Castle (3)

Vessel

Built

Tonnage

Official No

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

Clan Robertson (4)

1965

10541

307638

Greenock Dockyard

Greenock

J G Kincaid

Glasgow

Motor 7 Cyl

Burmeister & Wain

10350 BHP

1

Clan Robertson (4)

GMVE

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