She was a car passenger ferry built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company in Troon (1976) for Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd to work the Largs-Cumbrae route in 1977.
I've chosen it for the detail of the people on the pier more than anything else but full specification details are available from the Clydebuilt site here.
The story of the British shipbuilding industry, told with rare archive and interviews with the people who worked in it. The programme features the original 1980s documentary on the industry, followed by a new film which brings the story of our shipyards right up to date.It can be viewed on the iplayer until the 24 October here.
A great picture of the Glenfinlas surrounded by cranes. Check it out on flickr for a bigger version.
She was built by John Brown & Co in 1966 and was the fourth Glenfinlas built and operated by the Glen Shipping Line.
Specification details available from clydebuilt database here.
The other Glen Sannox ships are a 1957 one built by Ailsa Shipbuilders and a 1892 one by J & G Thompson.
No ship this week but instead a great picture from the Dan McDonald collection of Glasgow dock works. Not sure which docks this was taken at so any suggestions would be welcome.
Patricia Cain trained as a lawyer before becoming a fulltime artist in 2004, going on to complete her PhD at Glasgow School of Art. She lives and works in Glasgow, and her work is focused largely on regeneration of the city. Building the Riverside Museum explores the physical construction of the Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, designed by architect Zaha Hadid. Cain uses pastel, often considered a difficult medium, to create large-scale industrial drawings, where broad and confident lines of colour build a structure into the work that replicates its subject matter. Earlier this year, Cain won the Aspect Prize 2009/10.
I had originally struggled to find anything for this ship as she is labelled the FLYING FULMER in our database but thanks to the power of flickr, I received a correction from Neil F King.
These pictures are from when it first arrived, it is now nicely arranged on our new shelves and will need to be laid out and sorted before we can start cataloguing. When we do start to catalogue it, it will be the first collection to go straight into our new database using Archivists' Toolkit. 
"Operating out of Weymouth, Dorset for nearly 150 years, Cosens’ fleet of pleasure paddle steamers were once a familiar sight serving numerous towns along the south coast, the Channel Islands and France. Cosens were also coal and ice merchants, yacht builders, mast makers, smiths, millwrights, iron and brass founders. The Cosens collection consists of 26 boxes. The panel was impressed by the potential benefits this collection will make to the wider community by supporting Dorset History Centre’s Family Learning project based around seaside holidays, and its relevance in giving historical background to the 2012 Olympics, in which Weymouth will host the sailing elements of the event."
"The National Railway Museum’s collections covered by the grant comprise 60 small archives ranging from a few files or volumes up to two boxes. The panel was impressed by the national importance of these items and their benefit to researchers in helping them better understand the birth and growth of railways. The famous names of 19th century engineering business feature, including reports, accounts and letters by George and Robert Stephenson, I.K. Brunel, and John Rennie, and a unique commonplace book by Daniel Gooch, containing significant accounts of lines and locomotives they built."
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| From The Ballast Trust Hopefully they'll be getting filled up at the end of the week with a new accession... Stay tuned to find out what we are getting. |
I also ordered some postcards with a blurb about what we do and who we are on the back to give to people when they visit or when we're at things. They look a lot better in real life, lovely quality and feel to them and a nice way to show off some my favourite Dan McDonald pictures.
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| From Blog at the Ballast |
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| From Blog at the Ballast
They're not fancy mobile shelving but are perfect for what we need them for and will give us more room to store collections in the "nice" building. I will post some pictures of them in location hopefully next week, so keep your eyes peeled for that bit of excitement!!
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She worked the Gourock to Kyles run for the Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
