A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City.
The crane is no longer operational, yet its arm still bears the name of its former ownersClydeport.
They are the cherished symbols of the city’s engineering heritage.
In the early 1900s, one out of everyfive shipslaunched was built on the River Clyde.
Shipbuilding was the pride of Scotland, and the envy of the world.
Back then, conditions on River Clyde were not exactly conducive to shipbuilding.
This town became Port Glasgow, and for a while it was the main customs port for the Clyde.
The Finnieston crane, Glasgow.
As soon as this work was completed, a number of shipbuilding companies rapidly establishing themselves on the river.
During the two World Wars, the shipbuilders of the Clyde became theleading suppliersof the Royal Navy.
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Clydes downfall as a major industrial center came during and after World War II.
Queen Elizabeth launch on the river Clyde, pulled by tug The Flying Eagle in 1938.
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The River Clyde in the early 1900s.
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A Glasgow shipyard in 1944.
A work in progress at the Govan Yard in 1971.
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