Archaeology Notes

Event ID 751820

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS47SE 75 centred 483 707

For (integral) hammerhead crane, see NS47SE 232.

(Location cited as NS 483 707). Shipyard, Dalmuir, built 1905 for William Berdsmore and Co. Some single-storey brick workshops and the fitting-out basin, now used for shipbreaking, are the principal remains of this once great yard.

J R Hume 1976

The works covered an area of some 90 acres when constructed, the river frontage measuring nearly a mile in length. The design and erection of the berth (with its jib travelling cranes) for battleship construction, the boiler and engine shops was carried out by Sir William Arrol and Co. Ltd.

William Arrol & Co 1909.