Greenock, Belhaven Street, Glen Shipyard View looking SW of section of hull on transporter
SC 422918
Description Greenock, Belhaven Street, Glen Shipyard View looking SW of section of hull on transporter
Date 11/3/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 422918
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Prefabricated section of tanker hull on a transporter in the Glen Shipyard of Scott Lithgow Ltd., Greenock The Glen Yard was rebuilt in the late 1960s to build very large ships from large subassemblies made under cover in workshops at the nearby Kingston Yard. This shows one of these on a transporter. The transporter was a large flat-topped vehicle, carried on many rubber-tyred wheels. It was driven from a cabin under the deck as seen here. The subassembly here is a section of the bottom of a very large tanker. Because the slip at the Glen Yard was short, very large tankers were built here in halves and joined after launching. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/7/9
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