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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

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