Archive for: February 2011

23/02/2011

Clyde steamer 2

Filed under: Island - 23 Feb 2011
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Clyde steamer 2

Similar to the last one – you can see the funnel and some detail on the paddle wheel here.

18/02/2011

Sy ‘carola’

Filed under: Island - 18 Feb 2011

Sy  ‘carola’

A small steam yacht/ tender The vessel was designed and built in 1898 at Scott and Co’s Shipyard, Bowling, as a yacht, but used as a tender in the winter. She was reboilered in 1952, and remained at Bowling until 1964, when she was sold to a Mr Manning of …

15/02/2011

1888 allan royal mail steamers, 70 great clyde street, glasgow

Filed under: Island - 15 Feb 2011

1888 allan royal mail steamers, 70 great clyde street, glasgow

Allan Royal Mail Steamers, 70 Great Clyde Street, Glasgow. The Allan Line Ocean Steamship Company Founded in 1819 by Alexander Allan, the Allan Line provided the first regular service between the Clyde and Canada. It was said that Allan Line ships carried more young Scots emigrants to Canada than any …

14/02/2011

Mv “kyles” at braehead

Filed under: All - 14 Feb 2011

Mv

A coastal cargo steamship/motorship, built 1872. This vessel was built by John Fullarton and Co, Merksworth Yard, Paisley, with engines by William King and Co, Dock Engine Works, Glasgow. The first owner was Stuart Manford, as a tender for the Clyde fishing fleet. From 1881 she was used by a …

06/02/2011

Loch ness and foyers pier

Filed under: River - 06 Feb 2011

Loch ness and foyers pier

Pack of vintage souvenir photographs of Loch Ness and Glen Urquhart. Date unknown – probably purchased in the late1940s or early 50s, though the photographs themselves are clearly earlier than that. I have seen one of the pictures dated by another website to the 1920s, but there is a 19th …