Today's photo is the first of the new batch of 'T' vessels that I've scanned and put up on flickr. It is the Thunderer built by Bow McLachlan & Company of Paisley in 1920.
Specification details available from Clydebuilt.
Specification details available from Clydebuilt.
Today's photo is of the Spartan, a lovely wee puffer built by J and J Hay, Kirkintilloch as VIC 18 in 1942.
This great puffer can now be seen at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine where she is on display.
Specification details are available here.
The next batch of photographs for October will appear next week.
This great puffer can now be seen at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine where she is on display.
Specification details are available here.
The next batch of photographs for October will appear next week.
A belated Friday photo showing a fairly small ship with a long name. The dredger Sir William H Raeburn built by Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow in 1928.
The dredger was built for the Clyde Navigation Trust and Sir William Raeburn was the deputy chairman of the Trust which explains its name. More information about Sir William can be found here, including his links to many other shipping organisations.
Specification details available from Clydebuilt.
I will be back from my holiday in New York today and to link up with that have decided to include this image of the City of Rome built by the New York Shipbuilding Company in 1911.
She was built for the Merchants & Miners Transport Company as the Suwannee and sold to the Savannah Line in 1917.
She was built for the Merchants & Miners Transport Company as the Suwannee and sold to the Savannah Line in 1917.
Today's photo is the St Mungo, a fire boat built by H McLean, Renfrew in 1959.
The boat provided firefighting cover for Glasgow Harbour and was owned by Glasgow Fire Service Marine Division until 1975. Specification details available from clydebuilt database.