Glasgow, Pointhouse Shipyard View showing details of sheerlegs

Description Glasgow, Pointhouse Shipyard View showing details of sheerlegs

Date 25/11/1964

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 634928

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pointhouse Shipyard, Glasgow This yard, at the mouth of the River Kelvin and launching into it, was founded in 1862 by A & J Inglis, marine engineers, to build hulls for the engines and boilers they were building in Anderston. They added a boiler works in 1873-8. This shows one of the engines of the steam-powered sheerlegs installed to hoist heavy equipment on to vessels being fitted out. This engine at the base turned a screw to move the foot of the back leg (on the right) forwards to tilt the other two legs so that the hook was over the floating vessel. This was one of the last sheerlegs on the River Clyde. They were, until about 1900, the standard heavy lifting gear in shipyards. This yard, which built and repaired many Clyde steamers, was taken over by Harland & Wolff during World War I. They closed it in 1962, and it was demolished in 1965-6. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/64/6/29

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/634928

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