View from ESE showing John Brown's Shipyard (with QE II on stocks) with TSS Shieldhall passing

Description View from ESE showing John Brown's Shipyard (with QE II on stocks) with TSS Shieldhall passing

Date 16/8/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 682171

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content John Brown's Shipyard, Kilbowie, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire This yard was founded in 1870 by J & G Thomson, whose earlier Clyde Bank yard at Mavisbank, Glasgow, was required for harbour extension. The name was eventually applied to the town. In the ownership of John Brown & Co Ltd it built the 'Queen Mary' and the 'Queen Elizabeth'. This shows the yard from the south-east, looking across the River Clyde, with the hull of the ship ultimately named 'Queen Elizabeth II' being built on the berth constructed for the building of the 'Queen Mary'. The ship passing the yard is the SS 'Dalmarnock', a sewage sludge dumping vessel. The 'Queen Elizabeth II' was the last passenger liner built at Clydebank, and the last ship was launched from the yard in 1971. It then became an oil-rig construction yard, which it remained until 2002. It has now been cleared for redevelopment. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/67/5/36

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/682171

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