View from NNW showing steam crane, Custom House Quay, Greenock.
SC 785433
Description View from NNW showing steam crane, Custom House Quay, Greenock.
Date 31/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 785433
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Boom defence depot, Custom House Quay (Steamboat Quay), Greenock, Inverclyde This view, from the west, shows part of the boom defence depot laid out in 1939 on part of the site of the West Harbours. The steam crane was built by Cowans Sheldon & Co Ltd of Carlisle in 1939 to handle the cylindrical buoys seen here. The transit shed is on the Steamboat Quay. In the distance in this view is the end of the transit shed on what was the west pier of the West Harbour. This depot was removed soon after this photograph was taken, and the whole area has now been redeveloped, with a large swimming pool on this site. During World War II the Clyde estuary and the Clyde ports were essential to the war effort. To protect vessels in the anchorage, a boom was constructed across the firth, with a wire-rope curtain suspended from steel buoys. The equipment was retained until the early 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/23/5
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