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 the Secretary of State for Air in Shadwell Docks, London and sailed in 1947 to take up her station in the North Atlantic.
You can read more about the history of weather ships online here and also in this book.
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 designed and printed at the moment.
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 designed and printed at the moment.
Today's photo is of HMS Vanguard built by John Browns in 1944.
Specification details are available from Clydebuilt.
Specification details are available from Clydebuilt.
Today's photo is the first of a new batch of 'Us' and 'Vs' and is the Vehicular Ferry No. 2.
I have no idea who the builder is or the date so any suggestions would be welcome.
There is some information about the vehicular ferries on this site which states that in the 1950’s when vehicular ferries provided the cross-river service on the Clyde their odd appearance is explained:
"by the fact that they were essentially large floating lifts. The vehicle deck could be raised or lowered according to the tidal level at fixed docking points."
I have no idea who the builder is or the date so any suggestions would be welcome.
There is some information about the vehicular ferries on this site which states that in the 1950’s when vehicular ferries provided the cross-river service on the Clyde their odd appearance is explained:
"by the fact that they were essentially large floating lifts. The vehicle deck could be raised or lowered according to the tidal level at fixed docking points."
Today's photo is of the Talisman a paddlesteamer built by A & J Inglis, Pointhouse Glasgow in 1896.
Specification details available on-line from Clydebuilt.
Specification details available on-line from Clydebuilt.