General view from WSW showing SS Torch moored with transit shed in background
SC 785657
Description General view from WSW showing SS Torch moored with transit shed in background
Date 31/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 785657
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Victoria Harbour, Greenock, Inverclyde This shows the harbour from the south-west, looking along the north-west quay to the north-east pier and the entrance. The cranes on the right are on the fitting-out quay of the Cartsburn Shipyard. The vessel is the Clyde Port Authority's lighthouse and buoy tender SS Torch. By 1971 commercial use of this harbour was restricted to the berthing of tugs to handle shipping using the James Watt Dock and the container terminal in Greenock and the Glasgow harbour, and of small cargo vessels. By 2003 it was being used to berth small ferries and workboats. This harbour was built in 1846-50 to designs by Joseph Locke, who was one of the engineers of the Greenock & Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1841, and which brought new business to Greenock Harbour. It is a roughly rectangular tidal basin, immediately to the east of the earlier East India Harbour. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/23/36
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