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Inverness, Thornbush Slipway, Shipbuilding Yard
Shipyard (Post Medieval)
Site Name Inverness, Thornbush Slipway, Shipbuilding Yard
Classification Shipyard (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Inverness Harbour; Thornbush Shipyard; South Kessock; River Ness; Inner Moray Firth
Canmore ID 13343
Site Number NH64NE 128
NGR NH 6610 4645
NGR Description Centred NH 6610 4645
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13343
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 128.00 centred 6610 4645
NH64NE 128.01 NH 6612 4641 crane
NH64NE 128.02 NH 65994 46556 sheerlegs
A large steel-frame, corrugated iron structure surrounded by a number of smaller, similarly built structures. There are two slipways, the larger being flanked both sides by a side slip-way. Also of note is the set of 24-ton sheer-legs (NH64NE 128.02), at the time of Hume's writing, the last in Scotland.
J R Hume 1977.
NH64NE 128 6610 4645
A large steel-frame, corrugated iron structure surrounded by a number of smaller, similarly built structures. There are two slipways, the larger being flanked both sides by a side slip-way. Also of note is the set of 24-ton sheer-legs (NH64NE 142), at the time of Hume's writing, the last in Scotland.
J R Hume 1977
