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Clydebank served
as an early housing scheme for several shipyards Thomson's Ship
Builders (1871) and Beardmores (1860 Clyde Navigation Trust) when
they opened their shipyards between Yoker village on what is now
the western fringe of the city of Glasgow and the village of Dalmuir.
Their profound impact on the local population and effects on our
history have given us immense pride in our skills and abilities,
they have also left us with the legacy of industrial population
and many grave tales. We hope the following information and links
give you some idea of what scale and impact shipping had on this
very small town of 55,000 people.
Clydebank & District
Ship Yards:
Scott & Son's (Bowling) Ltd 1851 -1979 (Originally founded as
G Mills 1830's)
Alex Findlay & Co (Old Kilpatrick) - 1941 -1945 (Originally
founded as Napier & Miller 1906)
William Beardmore (Dalmuir) 1905 - 1930 (Originally founded as Clyde
Navigation Trust 1860)
John Brown & Co (Clydebank Central) 1899 -1968 (Originally founded
as J & G Thomson 1871). Final Ship Ailsa 1972 under the working
name UIE Shipbuilding Scotland. Ceased working under the name of
Kvaerner in 2001 as a turbine construction company.
Ships of Clydebank &
Dirstrict only:
(Ship type abbreviations:
S.S Single Screw Steam Ship - T.S.S Twin Screw Steam Ship -Q.S.S
Quadruple Screw Steam Ship - H.M.S His (Her) Majesty's Ship - HMRY
His (Her) Majesty's Royal Yacht)
Scott & Son's
SS Minard 1926
The Puffer Lascar 1939
J & G Thomson / John Brown & Co
SS Bothnia 1871
SS Servia 1881
TSS City of New York 1888
TSS City of Paris 1889
HMS Terrible 1896
TSS Saxonia 1900
QSS Lusitania 1907
QSS Aquitania 1914
HMS Tiger 1914
HMS Hood 1920
TSS Windser Castle 1922
QSS The Queen Mary 1936 (Known as the RMS Queen Mary - Royal Mail
Ship)
QSS Queen Elizabeth 1940
ORP Piorun 1940 (Free Polish Navy)
HMS Indefatigable 1944
HMS Vanguard 1946
HMRY Britannia 1953
TSS Queen Elizabeth II 1968 (still in operation)
Willaim Beardmore &
Co
HMS Agamemmnon 1908
HMS Benbow 1914
HMS Argus 1918
TSS Tyrrhenia 1920
HMS Raleigh 1921
TSS Conte Verde 1923
Links
The
Clydebank Story
Further
reading:
Ship Building & Industry
Ballantine, Ishbel et al The Singer
Strike: Clydebank 1911 Glasgow, Clydebank District Libraries 1989.
An excellent insight into the drama of working life and the housing
conditions of the early twentieth century ****Available from West
Dunbartonshire Libraries
Johnman, Lewis et al Down the
River Glendaruel, Johnman, Lewis et al 2001. A look back through
the eyes of the workers of the ship yards on the shipping history
of the Clyde.****Available from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
McKinlay, Alan Making Ships Making
Men: Working for John Brown's - Between the Wars Alexandria, Alan
McKinlay 1991. A great introduction to the lean years in ship building
between 1919 and 1939***Available from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
Castle, Colin Clydebank 100: Ships
from Clydebank & District West Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire
Libraries 1996. Colin Castle gives us in one book the key vessels
of the Clydebank Shipping Age, a pivotal pictorial catalogue of
shipping history****Available from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
Winter, C.W.R Long Live the Queen
Mary Isle of Wight, Forget-me-not Press 1994. Nothing sums up the
artistic and architectural excellence of Clydebank than the Queen
Mary. A floating palace that now rests in the USA, a great book****Available
from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
Johnstone, Ian Beardmore Built:
The Rise and Fall of a Clydeside Shipyard Clydebank, Clydebank &
District Libraries 1993. The tale of the forgotten yet compelling
story of Beardmore's works, from great ships to spectacular airships
like the No 24****Available from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
Johnstone, Ian Ships for a Nation
1847 - 1971: John Brown & Company Clydebank West Dunbartonshire,
West Dunbartonshire Libraries 2000. The book towers over all it
surveys. A colossal history of John Brown's Shipyard with outstanding
images of Clydebank.*****Available from West Dunbartonshire Libraries
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