Memoirs Chart Decades in the History of Clyde ShipbuildingLeadbetter, Russell
A true giant : It survived the bombs of the Second World War and enabled the construction of some of the world's most famous ships. Ahead of the opening of an education centre in its honour, Fiona MacLeod traces the history of Clydebank shipbuilding and th ...
Suburban sprawl surrounds the two major northern cities of Inverness and Aberdeen. Glasgow is oriented around the Firth of Clyde, the focus of the declining shipbuilding industry. Its architecture reflects the investments of shipping and tobacco magnates. In the 1980s and 1990s the decaying town cen...
[Battle of Britain | England | CPC] British minesweeping trawler HMT River Clyde hit a naval mine off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom and sank, killing 12. [Aldeburgh, England | CPC]11 Aug 1940 United Kingdom Although the weather was fine, the German Luftwaffe did not start...
Scotland Between the Wars - as presented in the literature of the time. After the War: Steps Towards Independence - some of the false dawns and the 1997 referendum. Kings of Stratchclyde - list of the monarchs of this ancient kingdom. There is a similar list for Scots in Dalriada an...
During the 1940s, construction companies across both Australia and New Zealand felt the demands of war. Downer & Co, Evans Deakin Industries, John Walker & Co and Clyde Engineering were all pulled into large-scale projects to produce machinery required for battle, such as airfields, power stati...
She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. She was the youngest sister to the Lusitania and launched on 21 April 1913. Not long after her maiden voyage to New York, the First World War broke out and she became an auxillary cruiser and ...
From the Broomielaw Wharves on the north bank or from Clyde Place Quay on the south bank, we begin our journey down the River Clyde, or “Doon the Watter”, as Glasgow folk would say. This will be a journey through an industrial empire, past shipyards famous for building many of the ...
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. Sir William Pearce was the British shipbuilder who made Govan on the Clyde the largest shipbuilding place in the world in the 1880’s. Pearce and Pierce Numbers Today 60,000 in the UK (most numerous ...
In spite of the mishap, her completion was only delayed by only eight weeks. On April 29 and 30, 1951, she ran her speed trails on the Clyde reaching a respectable 23.23 knots. She was officially delivered to Orient Line at Tilbury on May 3, 1951 and she was made ready for her ...