Today's photo is the Paladin. She was a tug built by Murdoch & Murray of Port Glasgow in 1913.
Full specification details are available from Clydebuilt.
With the opening of the Riverside Museum yesterday, there is now a ferry service running between Govan and the new Riverside Museum on the banks of Yorkhill Quay. The service is run by Clyde Cruises and details about the timetable are here.
The BBC has a great article on the history of the Govan Ferry.
Today's photo is of the Princess Kathleen built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank in 1924. She was owned and operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships.
We had a lovely comment this week from someone on flickr who saw it on our pages and mentioned that it was sunk in 1952. There are lots of pictures and information about the sinking on this blog and this great colour picture also on flickr from born1945 user.
Princess Kathleen from born1945 |
Found out about ScotRail's Adopt a Station scheme today via the Doors Open Days folks. The scheme finds community or start-up uses for vacant accommodation at ScotRail stations.
Perfect opportunity I thought for some shots of North Johnstone Station plans:
Johnstone Station (click to enlarge) |
Johnstone Booking Office (click to enlarge) |
Today's photo is of one of my favorite boats, the Pibroch. I've blogged other images of it unloading whisky and the later 1957 Pibroch transporting a van.
This Pibroch was built by Scotts of Bowling in 1923 and was one of a breed of Clyde Puffers.
This Pibroch was built by Scotts of Bowling in 1923 and was one of a breed of Clyde Puffers.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland have a very snazzy feature on the aerial section of their website that allows you to compare shipyards on the Clyde in 1947 with today.
Screenshot from here |
Thanks to their great twitter feed for the heads up.
Today's photo is a great up close view of the steam ship Pyrrhus which was built by Cammell, Laird & Co. in Birkenhead in 1949.
She was part of the fleet of ships belonging to the Ocean Steam Ship Company Limited which was formed from the Elder Dempster Line and later became the Blue Funnel Line
It is Annual Report time of year and I have attempted to make it look a bit snazzier with some pictures. You can read all about our past year (April 2010 to March 2011)
- Annual Report 2010/11 (large file, may take time to download)
- Annual Report 2010/11 (smaller file, poorer image quality)