Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Titan Crane, Clydebank A giant overhead rotating cantilever steel crane designed by Sir William Arrol and Company and erected by the firm in 1907 at John Brown’s shipyard. It is about 160 ft high, has cantilever frames 150 ft and 90 ft long and a capacity of 150 tons. This type of crane was much used in ship construction and for loading heavy items such as locomotives into ships.

Other surviving Titans in Scotland are at Rosyth (1917), 250 tons capacity; Finnieston, Stobcross Quay, 150 tons

capacity; and at Greenock.

R Paxton and J Shipway 2007

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.