This week's Friday Photo is of the Queen Empress. A paddle steamer built by Murdoch & Murray of Port Glasgow in 1912.
Specification details and career history are available on the Clydebuilt site here. More information about her can be found here and information about Murdoch and Murray here.
There's an interesting post over on the University of Glasgow Archive blog about the carpet designs used on luxury liners like the Queen Mary and Aquitania and created by James Templeton & Co.
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.
The Ballast Trust is a charitable foundation established in 1988 that provides a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs.
