View from SSW showing MV 'Juno' moored on pier

Description View from SSW showing MV 'Juno' moored on pier

Date c. 1990 to 1994

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

Catalogue Number SC 796076

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content MV 'Juno' at Pier, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute This view from the south-south-west, taken in the early 1990s, shows the MV 'Juno', one of a group of three side- and end-loading vehicle ferries introduced in 1974 on the Gourock-Dunoon and Wemyss Bay-Rothesay services. The foam on the right shows that the vessel's bow thruster is being used to keep her in position. By the late 1970s the popularity of excursions to Dunoon had waned, and the south steamer berth at Dunoon was little used. The pier was however, repaired in 1980-1 by Strathclyde Regional Council, as seen here. The 'Juno' and her sisters are still in use. Dunoon is on the east coast of the Cowal peninsula, and owed its growth in the 19th century to the development of Clyde steamer services. Until the 1960s it was a very popular holiday resort. Its steamer pier was rebuilt several times, most substantially in 1896-8. A promenade balcony was added in 1937. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT114

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