View from SSW showing tugs 'Wrestler', 'Bantry Bay' and 'Campaigner' moored in harbour
SC 796196
Description View from SSW showing tugs 'Wrestler', 'Bantry Bay' and 'Campaigner' moored in harbour
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796196
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Victoria Harbour, Greenock, Inverclyde This view from the south-west, taken in 1981, shows three tugs berthed on the north-west side of the harbour, the 'Wrestler', 'Bantry Bay' and 'Campaigner'. All are motor vessels. The tall bridge of the 'Bantry Bay' is fitted with a 'monitor' for directing a stream of water on to a fire. With the decline in the volume of shipping using the River Clyde, the use of this harbour for berthing tugs ended in the mid-1990s. It is now in marginal use as a base for small craft. The tug names 'Wrestler' and 'Campaigner' are typical of the former Steel & Bennie tugs, one of two rival firms of Clyde tug owners. The Victoria Harbour in Greenock was constructed in 1846-50 to designs by Joseph Locke, probably to take advantage of the recently-opened Glasgow & Greenock Railway, which Locke was also involved in designing. For many years it was used for berthing tugs, puffers and other small craft. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT153
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