Ships for All Nations

Author: Ian Johnston
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848322682
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 695

Book Description
“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

Glasgow and the Tobacco Lords

Author: Norman Nichol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The Shipbuilding Industry

Author: L. A. Ritchie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719038051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This work aims to facilitate the study of the shipbuilding industry by making available information on the present location of shipbuilding archives. The brief histories of about 200 businesses are offered.

Clyde Shipwrecks

Author: Peter Moir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951336625
Category : Clyde River (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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They Once Were Shipbuilders

Author: R. O. NEISH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849954433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
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.

Ships of the Clyde

Author: James A. Pottinger
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752489995
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Clydebank Battlecruisers

Author: Ian Johnston
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783469366
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
“Outstanding . . . anyone with an interest in the major ships of the grand Fleet or shipbuilding on the Clyde will want to own it.”—Warship 2012 Between 1906 and 1920, the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design, this represents every step in the evolution of these charismatic, and controversial, ships. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and detail; but unlike most shipyard photography, Clydebank’s collection has survived, although very few of the images have ever been published. For this book, some two hundred of the most telling of these were carefully selected, and scanned to the highest standards, depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the building and fitting out of Inflexible, Australia, Tiger, Repulse and Hood. Probably more has been written about battlecruisers than any other warship type, and as modelmaking subjects they have a devoted following, so any new book has to make a real contribution. This pictorial collection, with its lengthy and informative captions, and an authoritative introduction by Ian Johnston, offers ship modelers and enthusiasts a wealth of visual information simply unobtainable elsewhere. “A superb book combining some useful text on the ships and their construction with an amazing collection of pictures.”—History of War

Transactions

Author: Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Ships for the Seven Seas

Author: Thomas Heinrich
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421436852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.

Let us follow the Clyde

Author: James Denham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291691995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
This is a travelogue through the history of the communities on the flow of the River Clyde from the hills of South Lanarkshire, through the historic town of Lanark, the great industrial heartlands of Hamilton, Motherwell, Cambuslang and Rutherglen. Discover the great city of Glasgow then visit Renfrew, Clydebank, Dumbarton, Old Kilpatrick, Paisley and Port Glasgow. Learn of the greatest shipping river in the world.