View from ENE showing Royal Yacht 'Britannia' moored on NW side of basin
SC 796184
Description View from ENE showing Royal Yacht 'Britannia' moored on NW side of basin
Date 11/1997
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796184
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content HMY Britannia at Yorkhill Basin, Glasgow This view from the east-north-east, taken in November 1997 from Govan, shows the Royal Yacht 'Britannia' moored to the north-west side of the basin. This vessel was built in 1954 by John Brown & Co Ltd at Clydebank. It is seen here on a farewell tour before its withdrawal from service. The berth occupied by the vessel is that which has been used since the 1970s for visiting warships and other vessels. Before that it was used largely by ships carrying Scotch whisky to the United States. In 2003 the basin was threatened with infilling to make more land available for redevelopment. Yorkhill Basin was constructed in about 1908 at the west-north-west end of Yorkhill Quay. Both were used largely by the vessels of the Anchor Line, which served North America and the Far East. These services ended in about 1970, and both quay and basin were thereafter little used, except for visiting vessels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT144
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/796184
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
