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Friday 21 July 2023
Sunday 9 July 2023
Lucy Ashton
Lucy Ashton was built by T.B. Seath & Co. at their Rutherglen shipyard for the North British Steam Packet Co. to serve on the Craigendoran to Kilmun route. She continued the tradition of naming steamers after characters in Sir Walter Scott’s novels, being named after the main character in the novel The Bride of Lammermoor.[ Over the years she sailed on a number of different routes visiting piers in Greenock, Garelochhead, Clynder, Gourock and Dunoon.
Info courtesy of Wikipedia
Friday 7 July 2023
Thursday 6 July 2023
HMS Cardiff
HMS Cardiff is the second Batch 1 Type 26 frigate to be built at BAE Govan.
In the back ground you can see work taking place for the shed of the new the frigate factory.
Saturday 1 July 2023
Sunday 25 June 2023
MV Maid of Cumbrae
MV Maid of Cumbrae was a British passenger ferry operated by Caledonian Steam Packet Company from 1953. In the face of the car ferry revolution, in 1972, she was converted to a 15-car ferry for the Dunoon to Gourock crossing. Sold to Italian owners in 1978, she operated, as Capri Express in the Bay of Naples until 2006, when she was scrapped.
Maid of Cumbrae was the last of a quartet of passenger vessels ordered in 1951 to modernise the Clyde fleet. She was built by Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd. As demand switched from short cruises to car ferries, in 1972, she was converted to operate as a 15-car ferry. She operated in this configuration for three years and was then sold in 1978, for a new career in the Adriatic.
Information courtesy of Wikipedia
Friday 23 June 2023
Monday 19 June 2023
Wednesday 14 June 2023
Friday 9 June 2023
Wednesday 7 June 2023
TS Queen Mary
TS Queen Mary at the quayside of Govan Dock (Dock 2).
Queen Mary will be berthed at Dock 2 until May 2024, during which period some £1M of structural works above the waterline will be undertaken.
Friday 5 May 2023
SS Uganda
SS Uganda was a British steamship that had a varied and notable career. She was built in 1952 as a passenger liner, and successively served as a cruise ship, hospital ship, troop ship and stores ship. She was laid up in 1985 and scrapped in 1992.
Barclay Curle and Company of Whiteinch, Glasgow built Uganda for the British-India Steam Navigation Company (BI). She was a passenger and cargo liner .
Notes courtesy of wikipedia.
Monday 1 May 2023
Wednesday 29 March 2023
EMERALD
Emerald a Steel Steam Turbine with 2 Masts
Built in 1903 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan Linthouse