Photos by Stuart Cameron : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

If this bridge straddles the River Clyde, i presume this is quite close to Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base, anyone comment on this please, because ive seen the submarines from a distance on the Clyde? Thanks Ray

It was good to see your photos Stuart. Selami Ozgoren (ex-Babcock employee from Renfrew Nuclear Eng Dept 1976)

Went down there 5th August 2009 and yes it is still there...looks like it's high and dry though....

Jack mentioned Dewrance Dumbarton (above) Dewrance became a wholly owned subsiduary of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd when Sir James Dewrance died (1938 I think) (when Babcock & Wilcox was part of the Babcock International Group (BIG) at the time I believe)

Diamond Power then moved into the same Building and Babcock took a 38% share in this Sootblower business as it was equipment that was installed in the boilers that they built ( for cleaning off the soot fouling that effected performance) Babcock sold that stake Circa 1995 when Mitsui took over Babcock . There are Lots of views of the Building that was originally built for the Metallurgical Society which got involved in an Alchemy Scandal (Kosmoid). Then operated as Dumbarton WEeldless Tube Company owned by some the Denny Shipbuilding family who had lost money in Kosmoid, but salvaged the patented Tube making inventions of the discredited (and dead) Dr Shiels. (Business is boring these days)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22776031@N05/sets/72157621397372765/

Originally built by John Elder later Fairfield's, Govan Shipbuilders, Kvarner Govan, BAE Systems now BVT

These offices are no longer used

Scally

Some orders were 'knock-down' i.e. assembled with bolts first time, taken apart and re-assembled at destination with rivets. Not just the dredgers others were done like this from Inglis, Denny's, Yarrow's and Seath's yards to name a few. Alley & McLellan built up to 500 vessels as knock downs in their works at Jessie Street in Polmadie. Two of the last ships supplied by that means were Maid of the Loch (1953 from Ingls) as she was too large to go up the Leven as previous Loch Lomond stesmers had done, and the large Yarrow-built lake steamer 'Victoria' for shipment to Kenya. Pictures of her building at Yarrows and at Lake Victoria are at the following website Yarrow supervisers went out with the shipped parts and used local labour and rudimentary craneage to re-assemble her. Some other Clyde-built knockdown vessels also on this link

http://www.mccrow.org.uk/EastAfrica/EastAfricanRailways/MarineDivision/EARLakes.htm

Daring (nearest) and Diamond (Elderslie Drydock No 2)

I am afraid that no more Fifies will be built at Fairlie now, but as you see they still pay a visit

Isle of Bute in the near background - Kilchattan Bay and Suidhe Chatain

Did not know that the Duncan was the last. Stuart. It looks like there will be a gap for the sheet metal men, if they don,t o.k. these Carriers soon? :-( scally.