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The contract for the new ship was awarded to the Newport News Ship Building & Drydock Co. on January 22, 1925, and the ship, also to be named Mohawk, soon was laid down at the shipbuilder's yard in Newport News (yard number 287) and launched on 21 October 1925, with Miss Margaret Denison of Rye, New York, daughter of J. B. Denison, First Vice ...
Ships built by Harland and Wolff (1 C, 340 P) Pages in category "Ships built on the River Clyde" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,445 total.
At the time of her construction Mohawk was the largest and finest ship ever built for the Clyde Line and was laid down at the William Cramp & Sons' Kensington Yard in Philadelphia (yard number 349) and launched on 28 July 1908, with Mrs. J.S. Raymond, wife of the treasurer and assistant general manager of Clyde Steamship Company, serving as the ...
How a fierce storm, a heroic rescue and an insurance dispute created an unlikely Clyde landmark. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. She was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, but deregistered in 2024 due to her condition.
The Clyde: from its source to the sea, its development as a navigable river.... (1888) The Clyde: From Its Source to the Sea, Its Development as a Navigable River ... Shields, John. Clyde built: a history of ship-building on the River Clyde (1949) Walker, Fred M. Song of the Clyde: a history of Clyde shipbuilding (1984), 233 pages; Williamson ...
Moshulu arrived in Queenstown (Cobh, Ireland) on 10 June 1939, after 91 days at sea, winning the last race of square-rigged sailing ships between Australia and Europe. The ship was seized by the Germans in 1940 when she returned to Kristiansand, Norway, again under the command of Captain Mikael Sjögren and with a cargo of wheat from Buenos Aires.
RMS Victoria was built in Scotstoun in 1960 [6] and reassembled at the Kenyan port of Kisumu on the lake in 1961. [7] The train ferries Umoja and Uhuru were built in Scotstoun in 1965 [8] [9] and reassembled at Kisumu in 1965 and 1966. In total Yarrow built approximately 400 ships on the Clyde – these can be traced in detail in the Clyde ...