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Google Street View Photographs of Piers, Docks and Ships Online
On, March 11, 2010, over 99% of the United Kingdom's roads, including those around Kintyre and on Gigha were added to Google's 'Street Views'.
Google 'Street View' technology is indeed some...
Puffers - The Supreme Marine Achievement of Man's Invention
A complete history of the Clyde puffers, from the old sailing gabbarts to the Admiralty-built WWII VIC's and to the diesel 'puffers' - The puffer was a descendant of two vessels, the scow and the g...
Futility - The Wreck of The Titan - Morgan Robertson - 1898
Given the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some may be interested in reading Futility, or The Wreck of The Titan an 1898 short story written by Morgan Robertson (1861 - 1915). The s...
Trip Aboard The Dalriada
On an early summer morning sometime in the 1930's, between 1932 and 1936, an unknown figure, bound for Campbeltown, begins to film a record of his trip on board the 1926-built, single screw, "Dalri...
Clyde Lighthouse Trust 1755 - 1965
For a relatively small service, The Clyde Lighthouses Trust more than punched its weight in innovation, it the first lighthouse authority in Great Britain or Ireland to be allowed to build lighth...
In the Wake of The Maggie
"The Maggie", made in 1954, is in many ways superior to the later, BBC-made, television comedies about Para Handy and the "Vital Spark", these largely studio-based and much of "The Maggie" sho...
Kitchen Rudders - Their Inventor and Some Applications
This document is essentially a supplement to "Kitchen Rudders Going Full Circle", which can be found online on scribd.com - Contrary to the persuasions of many writers and texts, 'Jack' Kitchen was...
Kitchen Rudders Going Full Circle
During The Second World War and in early post-war years, many of the warships visiting Rothesay Bay, The Holy Loch and The Clyde used 'picket' and 'liberty boats' to ferry crews and supplies to and...
David Napier, Engineer (1790 - 1869)
This is an important account of the development of steam-powered ships, from the time of the little river steamers, Fulton's "Claremont" and Henry Bell's 1812 "Comet", through to the first true ...
Paulsen's Broompark
With The Fall of Paris in May 1940 and France facing defeat, Dautry, the French Armaments Minister who, with British support, had negotiated with Norway's Norsk Hydro Rjukan, a Norwegian company la...
All About Steamers - The Boilers and Engines
A short 'enthusiasts' guide to the basic parts of steam engines, the fuel systems, the water-feed system, the boilers and condenser, the cylinders, turbines, the coupled shafts to the paddle-wheels...
All About Steamers - Ship Handling Principles
A short 'enthusiasts' guide to shiphandling and berthing paddle steamers, turbines and motor ships e.g. Because of their ‘fixed’ paddle-wheels, only being able to go ‘forward-or- backwards’, paddle...
Lochinvar and the Donna Nook
The story of MacBrayne's "Lochinvar", launched at Scott's of Bowling on Thursday, April 16, 1908 and, largely due to what might in hindsight be called 'arrogance', wrecked, with the loss of all her...
M'Andrew's Hymn - The Marine Steam Engineer's Hymn - Rudyard Kipling - c
It is indeed a great pity that this 'monologue', the musings of a ship's Scottish chief engineer as his ship approaches port, has never, to the best of the present writer's knowledge, ever been rec...
Yachting Wrinkles - Captain A. J. Kenealy - 1899
Captain Kenealy's 'Wrinkles', gleaned from 'practical experience, observation and study, were published in the hope that they might prove of interest and value to lovers of sailing craft', this fas...
Steam Yachts and Launches - Their Machinery and Management - 1887
Essentially a 'companion volume' to the 1852 Marine Steam Engineers' Manual, which can also be downloaded from this archive, the work here should be of great interest to anyone unfamiliar with the ...
From the Clyde to Sandy Hook - The Amateur Emigrant Robert Louis Stevenson
Given the "Titanic" disaster and the tragic loss of her steerage-fare passengers, it may be a matter of curiosity for some to understand the conditions in which such passengers, most emigrating, tr...
Down to See the Engines on the Waverley
A well known feature of the British paddle steamer was the open engine room, where the public could stand and see the engines at work as well as some of what goes on to keep them running smoothly, ...
Highland Seabird - The Story of Western Ferries Catamaran
In April 1976 Western Ferries announced that it was going to carry out trials on The Clyde with a Norwegian Westermoen catamaran, the "Highland Seabird", designed by Toralf Westermoen and essential...
Sound of Islay - The Irish Ferry - Now and Then
Entering service on April 7, 1968, the "Sound of Islay" was placed on a new twice-daily service between a newly-built Kennacraig terminal in West Loch Tarbert and Port Askaig on Islay, a daily call...
