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Desk Based Assessment
Date 14 August 2017
Event ID 1026814
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1026814
The tidal basin at William Denny and Brothers Ltd was situated at the southern end of the shipbuilding yard (NS47SW 91), on the west bank of the River Leven directly north of Dumbarton Rock. Rectangular on plan, it is first depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 25-inch map (Dunbartonshire 1898, Sheet 022.06) and measured 200m from ENE to WSW by 62m transversely. Launched vessels were towed here to be fitted out with machinery and other internal furnishings. William Denny and Brothers Ltd. went in to liquidation in 1963 and the yard was later demolished, but a sawmill company later utilised the fitting-out basin. It has since been filled in and its site is now occupied Dumbarton Football Stadium (NS47SW 134), built in 2000.
Information from HES Survey and Recording (AMcC) 14 August 2017.
