Interesting article in i-on magazine about the restoration of Fairfield Shipyard offices by Govan Workspace.
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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 company, particularly for the years 1958-1965.
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 with many different activities including a re-enactment of the charter of ownership being landed by boat and formally presented to Thomas Kennedy of Dunure.
You can read an article about it in the Ayrshire Post here.
The Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments also has some photos of the harbour taken in the 1970s I think - view them here.
The Ballast Trust has some great photographs of Dunure Harbour and Boats as part of our Dan McDonald collection which we scanned in response to an enquiry. Here is a selection all of which were taken in 1939. (click to enlarge)
We also have some older mystery photos of the Harbour and Castle which we have scanned and uploaded to our flickr page.
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
Thanks to Iain Flett for the posting to archives-nra about this.
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
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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 14 April and will be available until August. From the Kelvingrove site:
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 14 April and will be available until August. From the Kelvingrove site:
Patricia Cain is the Glasgow-based lawyer turned artist who recently won both the prestigious Threadneedle Prize and the Aspect Prize for her forensically detailed studies of the construction of Glasgow's Riverside Museum. Now she brings these studies together in Drawing (on) Riverside, an exploration of the different phases of the museum's construction, through the mediums of drawing, painting and sculpture.Patricia collaborated with others to create the exhibition and this video from Ann Nisbet's blog tells you more about the process of the construction of the architectural installation part of the exhibition.
Today's photo is the Naiad built by Swans at their Kelvin Dock, Maryhill in 1875.
**Update** The information we gave above was for a different ship. This image of the Naiad is for the schooner built in Wales in 1867 by the Lanelly Iron Shipbuilding Company. She was built for C. W. Nevill & Co. and used to transport copper ore from Cornish Ports. She survived until 1931 and saw service during the First World War.
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
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 rather lovely Duchess of Rothesay built by J & G Thompson of Clydebank in 1895 (specification details here)