The data entry part of our pacesetter project has been completed. This means that one of our volunteers has sucessfully inputted around 1500 entries to the Archivists' Toolkit to create an xml file that we will now pass onto the custodial repository for them to transfer to their database. If that all goes smoothly we will be able to return that section of...
Today's photo is of the HMS Loch Tralaig one of the Loch Class anti-submarine frigates built for the Royal Navy in 1945.The vessel was built at Caledon Shipbuilding in Dundee. ...
We had an enquiry looking for information about the boiler of the shipwreck of the Renown which ran aground in 1887 in South-West France.We looked through the Lloyd's register for 1884 which had 9 entries for Renown ships, a mixture of both iron and wooden built. I sent the following scanned image to the enquirer for them to go through and see which...
One of my favourite images in the Dan McDonald collection is this one of the Lord of the Isles with rowboats going out to it. The image today shows the same vessel on the Clyde I think from a different angle. She was built by uilt by D & W Henderson, Glasgow in 1891. Specification details available from Clydebuilt database here. ...
A little whimsy for a Thursday afternoon with a step back in time to the glamour of ocean liners in the 1960s. This website celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of The France which was the longest passenger ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1960. She was built at the Atlantic yard in Saint-Naizaire by the Compagnie Générale...
Today's photograph is of the Logan, a mystery vessel to me at least. We have 6 images of the Logan on flickr but I've been unable to find much information about it other than it was built by Swans, Maryhill in 1920. ...
Today's photo is of the Lairdsgrove.Built by A & J Inglis, Pointhouse in 1898 for the Burns and Lairds Line Ltd. Information about them below taken from here.This shipping line was an amalgamation of two Glasgow companies that had pioneered steam services between Scotland and Ireland. George Burns had been involved in the development of steam shipping around the British coast; his brother...
