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Author : John Shields
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clyde Built written by John Shields and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Jeffrey
Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785301438
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Giants of the Clyde written by Robert Jeffrey and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is barely a corner of the five great oceans where Clyde-built is not recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. As late as the 1950s, around a seventh of the total of the world’s sea going tonnage was built on the Clyde. It is not a particularly wide river, nor spectacularly long – it is certainly no Mississippi or Amazon – but its fame is legendary. From the many yards on its banks, north and south, en route from the gentle hills of Lanarkshire to the Firth of Clyde, came engineering innovation and fabled names in shipping – iconic vessels like the Cutty Sark and the Delta Queen, fearsome warships like the mighty Hood, and the cream of the world’s great liners, the Cunard Queens and the beautiful white Empress vessels. All that and cargo carrying workhorses that opened up the world. More recent times have seen the phoenix-like revival of Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last remaining yard on the Lower Clyde, saved from closure by industrialist Jim McColl and now investing in the hybrid technology of the future that has thrown a lifeline to this once great yard. This is the fascinating, often turbulent, story of a great river, its great ships and the folk who built them.
Author : Fred M. Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Song of the Clyde written by Fred M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Pottinger
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752489995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ships of the Clyde written by James A. Pottinger and published by History Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the River Clyde held a premier place in the world of shipbuilding and engineering, pioneering many advances in both disciplines. While these days are long gone we should never forget the great contribution made by a range of companies, from those constructing luxury passenger liners and major warships, to those building a whole range of cargo ships, including numerous specialist types, and the smaller concerns concentrating on coasters, tugs, dredgers and puffers. This illustrated history reveals the whole gamut of Clyde-built types built on the river and celebrates the glory days of times past, now sadly only living on in old photographs and the memories of those who were there.
Author : Ian Johnston
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848322682
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ships for All Nations written by Ian Johnston and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A worthy tribute to the John Brown company and to British shipbuilding . . . a joy to enthusiasts of the great ships of the past.”—Australian Naval Institute The Clydebank shipyard built some of the most famous vessels in maritime history—great transatlantic liners like Lusitania, Queen Mary and QE2, and iconic warships like the battlecruiser Hood, and Britain’s last battleship, HMS Vanguard. Starting life as J & G Thomson in 1847, the business acquired its more famous persona when taken over in 1899 by the Sheffield-based steelmaker John Brown & Co, which enhanced the yard’s existing reputation for turning out first-class products, both naval and mercantile. This book charts the fortunes of the company in terms of its business development, its management and personnel, as well as the great variety of ships it built during the century and a quarter of its existence. It also tells a wider story of the rise to world domination of the British shipbuilding industry and its eventual decline and collapse in the post-war decades, as reflected in the experience of John Brown. Written by an acknowledged authority on Clydeside shipbuilding, the book was originally published in a limited edition in 2000, but this reprint is entirely new and revised, although it retains all the original photographs from the yard’s own unrivaled collection. “Essential to anyone’s maritime collection.”—Sea Breezes “The profusely illustrated, beautifully produced and very detailed story of John Brown & Company.”—Army Rumour Service
Author : Norman Nichol
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glasgow and the Tobacco Lords written by Norman Nichol and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johnston Fraser Robb
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ISBN 13 : 9781849270144
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truly Clyde Built written by Johnston Fraser Robb and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. O. NEISH
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ISBN 13 : 9781849954433
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book They Once Were Shipbuilders written by R. O. NEISH and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leith-Built Ships is a testimony to the skill of the men who built the ships and to the many men and women who may have sailed or served on them. This history is brought together in vol. I of a three-volume series about the almost-forgotten part that Leith played in our great maritime heritage and is the culmination of the author's lifetime experience of shipbuilding.Most people may well be aware of the part played by the great shipbuilding centres in the UK's history but many may be unaware of the part played by the shipbuilders of Leith. This port was once Scotland's main port with many firsts to its name. Leith had begun building ships some 400 years before the great shipyards of the Clyde and these vessels reached all corners of the globe, touching many people's lives. Some had sad histories while others took part in some of the great conflicts of the times; many were just ordinary working vessels that carried their crew safely through long working lives.With a pedigree of shipbuilding second to none going back over 660 years of recorded history, the ships built at Leith deserve their place in history and this book begins the story.
Author : Eric J. Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clyde Built written by Eric J. Graham and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contemporary accounts and individual case studies, 'Clydebuilt' presents an account of Scotland's involvement in the American Civil War Blockade, an involvement which almost certainly prolonged the conflict by several years.
Author : Douglas McGowan
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ISBN 13 : 9780752432281
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clydebuilt written by Douglas McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
