Blog at the Ballast

Christmas greetings from all of us here at the Ballast Trust! Our Christmas E-card above shows the Empress of Britain sailing past a faint iceberg in 1922 from our Dan McDonald collection.  She was built in 1906 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.  Specification details are available from the Clydebuilt site. We are going to be closing...

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A picture of a lovely wee tug the Warrior built by Built by Scotts of Bowling in 1935. Specification details available from clydebuilt database here and lots more information about its career here. ...

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This weeks Friday photo is appropriate given yesterday's crazy weather.  It is the ship Weather Observer.  She was built as HMS Marguerite by Hall Russell & Co. Ltd in Aberdeen in 1940. The Weather Observer was the first of the post-war UK Ocean Weather Ships.  She was converted to the Weather Observer at H.M. Dockyard Sheerness and renamed on 31 July 1947 by...

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On a Thursday... I got waylaid this week with holidays and the crazy weather so here is a very belated Friday photo which is a scan of one of the plans used to build the replica PS Comet in 1962. I've been uploading some different photos to the flickr stream as resources for a history of the Ballast Trust that we are getting...

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