READERS will hopefully be able to help with three appeals I have received.

Two relate to schools and the other is to do with a Greenock-built sailing ship.

Former Port Glasgow resident Drew Anderson is keen to find out what happened to a plaque carrying the names of dux pupils at the town’s Jean Street School, pictured in 1996 during its conversion into flats.

Drew attended Jean Street School and was a dux in 1963.

He worked with IBM at Spango Valley and later got a company move to Leeds where he still lives.

The second appeal with a school connection comes from a gentleman who has asked that I do not give his name.

He was a member of a Greenock and district under-15s football team who in 1963 achieved an amazing result against their Dundee counterparts in a competition involving schools from across Scotland.

The Greenock team were 5-1 behind at half time but won the match 6-5.

Members of the Greenock squad included two boys who went on to become legends in the professional game – Joe Harper and Eddie Morrison.

The match was held on the playing fields of the old Port Glasgow High School in Southfield Avenue.

The gentleman who contacted me would love to read a report of the game which he thinks took place in March, 1963. He believes one appeared in the Telegraph but I have as yet been unable to trace it.

Please get in touch if you were a member of the Greenock team and can remember the date of the match.

Unfortunately, the Greenock boys got knocked out in the next stage of the competition.

My third appeal is on behalf of someone wishing to trace a photograph of the Lord of the Isles, an iron sailing ship built by Robert Steele & Company of Greenock in 1864. The vessel was later renamed Paul Albert