HMS Indefatigable being launched at Clydebank. John Brown and Company of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, was a pre-eminent shipbuilder, responsible for building many notable ships. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1086x836, 109 KB)The Implacable-class aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable being launched on 8 December 1942. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1086x836, 109 KB)The Implacable-class aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable being launched on 8 December 1942. ...
The old coat of arms for Clydebank, adopted in 1930 The red saltire on the white field is for the ancient province of Lennox and for the towns more recent historic links to Ireland which previously used the same flag. ...
The old coat of arms for Clydebank, adopted in 1930 The red saltire on the white field is for the ancient province of Lennox and for the towns more recent historic links to Ireland which previously used the same flag. ...
West Dunbartonshire (Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Iar in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary authority areas in Scotland. ...
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Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ...
Origins
The shipyard was founded by the Thomson Brothers at Finnieston, Glasgow, in 1847. The company moved to Clydebank in 1871. The location at the confluence of the River Clyde, with the tributary River Cart at Newshot Isle, allowed very large ships to be launched. Finnieston is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. ...
Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city and unitary council, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The River Clyde, looking eastwards upstream, as it passes beneath the Kingston Bridge. ...
The River Cart is a tributary of the River Clyde, Scotland, which it joins from the west roughly midway between Erskine and Renfrew. ...
Golden Age A Sheffield steel-making company took over the yard in 1899, and it became one of the leading shipbuilding yards in the world. Many notable warships and liners were built here including: This article is about the city in England. ...
The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ...
USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ...
A liner is a big passenger ship where the passengers can sleep onboard. ...
RMS Mauretania, the Lusitanias sister ship The RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines. ...
The Aquitania was a British ocean liner built by the Cunard Line. ...
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Hood (left) and HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ...
HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1913, the most heavily armoured battlecruiser of the Royal Navy in World War I. A sister ship, Leopard, was planned but not completed. ...
HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser, the second to last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Barham was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy named after Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, built at the John Brown shipyards in Clydebank, and launched in 1914. ...
HMS Victory in 1884 HMS Dreadnought the first all-big-gun battleship. ...
Interwar recession
 RMS Queen Mary arriving in New York Harbor, June 20, 1945, with thousands of U.S. troops. The end of the war, and the subsequent famine of naval orders hit British shipbuilding extremely hard, and John Brown only just survived. Two great ships saved the yard, they were the giant Cunard Liners: original source: National Archives. ...
original source: National Archives. ...
New York Harbor is a geographic term that refers collectively to the bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson and adjacent rivers in the vicinity of New York City. ...
RMS Queen Mary was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. ...
RMS Queen Elizabeth was a steam-powered ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. ...
World War II and After The yard made a valuable contribution to the war effort, building amongst others: - HMS Duke of York - battleship
- HMS Vanguard - the last battleship built in the world
- HMS Indefatigable - aircraft carrier
The immediate post war period saw a severe reduction in warship orders which was balanced by a prolonged boom in merchant shipbuilding. By the end of the 1950s, however, the rise of other shipbuilding nations, recapitalised and highly productive, made many European yards uncompetitive. At Clydebank, a series of loss-making contracts were booked in the hope of weathering the storm. By the mid 1960s, John Brown & Co, warned that its shipyard was uneconomic and potentially faced closure. HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, and the second of the name, the predecessor having been a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1766. ...
HMS Vanguard was a Fully Armoured Battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Indefatigable (R10) was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy. ...
An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting as a sea-going airbase. ...
// Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the the baby boom from returning GIs who...
A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
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The last passenger liner order came from Cunard with RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, but the yard had since merged into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, which collapsed amidst much controversy in 1971. The last true ship to be built at the yard, the bulk carrier, Alisa, was completed in 1972. The Clydebank facility continued to operate under various owners until 2001, constructing oil platforms in support of the North Sea oil fields. The Queen Elizabeth 2, often called the QE2, was the flagship of the Cunard Line from 1969 until she was succeeded by RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004. ...
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was a group which amalgamated the major shipbuilders of the River Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
An oil platform is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. ...
UK North Sea Oil Fields North Sea oil refers to oil and natural gas (hydrocarbons) produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea. ...
The Future A comprehensive regeneration plan for the site is currently being implemented by West Dunbartonshire Council and Scottish Enterprise. The masterplan is based around making the Clydebank waterfront more accessible to the public, and the plans include; restoring the historic Titan Crane originally designed by William Arrol for the Clyde shipyard, the construction of a new campus for a local college, and even more ambitious proposals mooted for the eventual return of the QE2 to the river of her birth when she is retired as a tourist attraction, in a similar arrangement to her older sister, the RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, California. West Dunbartonshire (Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Iar in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary authority areas in Scotland. ...
The old coat of arms for Clydebank, adopted in 1930 The red saltire on the white field is for the ancient province of Lennox and for the towns more recent historic links to Ireland which previously used the same flag. ...
The Queen Elizabeth 2, often called the QE2, was the flagship of the Cunard Line from 1969 until she was succeeded by RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004. ...
RMS Queen Mary was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. ...
County Los Angeles County, California Area - Total - Water 170. ...
Royal Yacht Britannia and other notable ships built by John Brown and Company  HMY Britannia at pierhead on the River Mersey, Liverpool. Britannia at Leith harbour HM Yacht Britannia was the 83rd Royal Yacht since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660 (Charles II himself had 25 Royal Yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831). ...
Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh, Scotland is a shopping centre, designed by Terence Conran. ...
Edinburghs location in Scotland Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ...
HMS Enterprise was an Emerald-class light cruiser designed and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, who laid her keel down on June 28, 1918. ...
HMS Lynx (F27), was a Leopard-class anti-aircraft frigate of the Royal Navy, named after the lynx. ...
HMAS Australia was an Indefatigable class battlecruiser laid down by John Brown and Company of Clydebank at Glasgow in Scotland on 26 June 1910, launched on 25 October 1911 by Lady Reid, wife of Sir George Reid, the Australian High Commissioner in London and former Prime Minister. ...
HMAS Australia, launched in 1927, was a County-class heavy cruiser in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). ...
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Icarus, after the Icarus of Greek mythology. ...
HMS Icarus (D03) was an I-class destroyer laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 9 March 1936, launched on 26 November 1936 and commissioned on 1 May 1937. ...
References - http://www.theclydebankstory.com/story_TCSC03.php - A summary of the history of the company.
- R.D. Thomas, B.Patterson, Drednoughts in Camera 1905-1920, 1998, Sutton Publishing
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