View from SE showing floating crane unloading 'Ropallo' on N side of central basin

Description View from SE showing floating crane unloading 'Ropallo' on N side of central basin

Date 6/8/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685846

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 1893-97. 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 motor vessel 'Rapallo' with the steam floating crane 'Newshot' in the middle basin of the dock. The crane is either loading or unloading the containers on its deck, which were too heavy or awkward for the quayside cranes to handle. 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 was the site of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. It is still being redeveloped. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/14/15

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