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Friday 14 June 2013

Tuesday 11 June 2013

HMS Queen Elizabeth













The bridge section of HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier at the Scotsoun yard in Glasgow.
She will be taken by barge to Rosyth on the east coast were it will be assembled with the rest of the carrier .
Click HERE for lower block four move.
A video of the move HERE

Sunday 9 June 2013

Saturday 8 June 2013

RRS James Cook


















Scientific research ship heading for KGV Glasgow.
Click HERE for some more pictures from a previous visit.

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Old Govan

A print of Old Govan from 1903,the paddle steamer is the Strathmore.
The ship is the Monmouth-Class armoured cruiser HMS Cumberland, fitting out after launching, at the Middleton Yard of the London & Glasgow Shipbuilding Company, Govan. She displaced 9,800 tons and was launched in late 1902.
 The Middleton shipyard (founded in 1842 by Smith & Rodgers) was situated where Harland & Wolf bought into around 1912, i.e. near the Govan Drydocks.

Monday 3 June 2013