View from SW showing 1894 steam crane with cranes and goods sheds in background
SC 685836
Description View from SW showing 1894 steam crane with cranes and goods sheds in background
Date 6/8/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685836
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Prince's Dock, Glasgow This dock, originally known as Cessnock Dock, was built for the Clyde Navigation Trust in 1893-7. It had three basins, approached from the River Clyde via an entrance basin large enough for vessels to cant, or turn, and hence known as the canting basin. This shows the 130-ton steam crane installed on the west quay of the canting basin in 1894 for installing heavy machinery and boilers in hulls, and for loading heavy machinery. It was built by Cowans, Sheldon & Co of Carlisle, and rebuilt in 1920. Latterly it had the reduced capacity of 95 tons. The dock, though incomplete, was opened in 1895 by the Prince of Wales, and was thereafter known as Prince's Dock. It declined in use throughout the 1970s, and was eventually closed and infilled. It is still being redeveloped. This crane was scrapped in 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/14/6
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685836
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]