Today's photo is of the Opawa, a tanker built by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow in 1964. Specification details available from clydebuilt database here. ...
Interesting article in i-on magazine about the restoration of Fairfield Shipyard offices by Govan Workspace. Read article here ...
Today's photo is a coaster called Onyx which I think was built by Scotts of Bowling either in 1910 or 1903. Without pictures to compare to on the Clydebuilt site, I find it pretty tricky to decide. Whilst doing some research on Scotts of Bowling for another collection we have recently received I came across this site which is interested in capturing knowledge people have about...
The harbour at Dunure is celebrating its 200th anniversary this week. The Dunure Harbour Committee Association's website has details about all the events being planned but they include on Friday 20th May crafts such as Knotting, Fishing Net making, Rope splicing and Lobster Pot making in the harbour and on boats. As well as games, stories and a quiz. Saturday 21st is the main day...
A great new resource for shipping research - the marine news contained in Lloyd's List has been indexed by the Guildhall Library in London (available here) And an academic called Michael Dun has recently scanned in the marine news and both it and the link to the index are available here {image of 1797 February 3rd edition from here} Thanks to Iain Flett for the posting to...
This week's photo is of a ship simply called 'No. 12' It looks to be a barge. ...
The Ballast Trust and Duncan in particular, was involved since late 2010 in working with Patricia Cain to understand the processes of technical drawing within shipyard offices using some of the collections we have here and Duncan's own knowledge of technical drawing. This has been a very interesting process and new experience for us and the exhibition Drawing (on) Riverside opened at Kelvingrove Museum last month on...
Today's photo is the Naiad built by Swans at their Kelvin Dock, Maryhill in 1875. Naiad She was built for and operated by Morris Munro & Co. who were coal merchants who had the contract to supply MacBrayne's steamers, taking cargos of coal from Ayrshire to, mainly, Oban. Return trips were often made profitable by them bringing slate back from the quarries on Luing,...
A belated Friday photo after the bank holiday weekend and one with a tenuous connection to the events of Friday. Duchess of Rothesay Originally uploaded by ballasttrust We unfortunately don't have any photographs of a Duke or Duchess of Cambridge ship to mark the Royal Wedding and the new Duchess of Cambridge but we do have several other ships named after Duchesses, including the...
