This is a photo of the paddle steamer Iona built by J G Thompson in Govan in 1864. She has a very long career, serving until she was scrapped in 1936.
Full specification details are available here from the Clydebuilt site.
Lots of snow across Scotland so thought it was time for the christmas snow widget to appear for the festive season.
In my haste to rush off and get married two weeks ago I forgot to schedule any Friday photo posts which is a shame because I'd been busy uploading the 'Is' so you've missed out on the Irma, Isle of Arran and the Ivernia among others. But they are all available on flickr so head over to there to see them!
So, instead I offer some views of Jura taken by Dan McDonald on one of his holidays onboard the puffer Pibroch. These two were taken in 1951 and we were able to look at the same view from our venue all weekend in glorious November sunshine.
Normal (non-wedding) blogging to resume this week!
Although there's not many car ferries running in today's weather, I thought I'd put this image of the Isle of Cumbrae up.
She was a car passenger ferry built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company in Troon (1976) for Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd to work the Largs-Cumbrae route in 1977.More specification details are available here.
Today is follow an archive day on twitter, its a chance for archives who are using twitter to promote themselves and their collections and get everyone tweeting about archives.
The Ballast Trust isn't on twitter (flickr and this blog are enough web 2.0 for us) but I'll be posting some links to our pictures and blog posts on it from my own account and keeping an eye out for interesting new archives.
Some organisations on twitter that might interest fans of the Ballast Trust are:
But there are loads more on there so check out #followanarchive
Today's photo is of the Isle of Arran, a paddlesteamer built by Thomas B Seath of Rutherglen in 1892.
I've chosen it for the detail of the people on the pier more than anything else but full specification details are available from the Clydebuilt site here.