This weekend marks the traditional start of the Glasgow Fair Fortnight and an appropriate time to share some of the wonderful images of paddlesteamers and later ships that were used by holiday makers to get away down the Clyde to the coast. The ships shown above are Jeanie Dean, Glen Sannox, Waverley III, Lucy Ashton but there are lots more images here and a nice...
New merchant navy and warship images have been added to our Dan McDonald collection on Flickr, including this image, which shows the S.S. Melita being re-fueled with coal in 1924. Built by Barclay, Curle & Co, Whiteinch in 1918, the Melita was originally intended for the German Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG), but at the outbreak of World War I the unfinished ship was sold...
