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View of newly built cargo liner at Princes Pier, Greenock
SC 704320
Description View of newly built cargo liner at Princes Pier, Greenock
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 704320
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cargo liner at Princes Pier, Greenock, Inverclyde Princes Pier was originally built as the terminus of a branch line from Elderslie, constructed to give the Glasgow & South Western Railway a steamer pier on the lower River Clyde. It closed as a steamer pier in 1959 and the pier was then briefly used by tenders to liners calling at the Tail of the Bank. This shows a newly-built cargo liner constructed by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd for the Leith-based Ben Line, berthed at the pier. By that time the elaborate pier buildings had been demolished. Princes Pier was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for the Clyde Container Terminal, which opened in 1969. Containerisation also greatly reduced the demand for general cargo ships like the one in this view. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/302/2C
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/704320
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