Field Visit

Date 5 July 2017

Event ID 1117885

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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Aerial Defences of the Clyde

What may be the last vestiges of the outer circumference of a ship turntable (NS 32623 74493) were noted in the car park SSE of some temporary offices of Ferguson Marine. This turntable is depicted on an aerial photograph (CPA/Scot/UK/0235 FFO 0007) flown on 5 July 1947, when seven sheds were arranged radially upon it, with a slipway in the gap between them sloping gently down to the dock on the WNW. It is also shown on an aerial photograph (SC 1438083) flown on 6 June 1953, when only the foundations of the sheds remained.

An earlier, undated photograph (A29942), taken by Lieutenant E.A. Zimmerman (a Royal Navy Official photographer during the Second World War) is in the ‘Admiralty Official Collection’ curated by the Imperial War Museum. The caption reads, ‘The Landing Craft Maintenance Base at Port Glasgow seen from the East end’.

Visited by HES (ATW, ARG) 5 July 2017