Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Clyde Navigation Trust's launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

Clyde Navigation Trust launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS

  14 March 2019   @ 1239

Richard Danielson e-mails

 The Clyde Navigation Trust harbour launches: Newark, Garmoyle and

Dunglass have had little written about them. 

I have a photo showing two of them (which two I cannot tell) giving a

tow to the Duchess of Hamilton to help her turn at Bridge Wharf

  in 1969. 

Please ask anyone who knows about the work of the launches

to get in touch with me by email.

Thank You.

Richard Danielson.

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20 March 2019  @ 1604

Jim Howie  (Partick, Glasgow)

   I am replying to Richard’s query about the small boats at Glasgow.

   Sorry to disappoint you Richard but there was a small but bulky booklet produced possibly about 50 years ago that described in great detail all the Clyde Navigation Trust / Clyde Port Authority vessels.   I did have a copy but it’s been lost.

In 1960’s the Clyde Trust / Authority had quite a few vessels.

6 Dredgers : CESSNOCK, CRAIGIEHALL, ELDERSLIE, LENNOX 11, ROSSLYN and SIR WILLIAM H. RAEBURN.

12 Hopper Barges.

1 Dumb grab hopper barge.

1 Tug CLYDE.

4 high-level Vehicular Ferryboats : FINNIESTON, GOVAN and WHITEINCH.  The remaining one was a spare in case of breakdowns.

3 chain-operated ferries : RENFREW and ERSKINE.  The remaining one was a spare in case of breakdowns.

11 passenger ferryboats.

1 60-ton floating crane NEWSHOT.

1 Diving Bell barge.

2 Divers’ motor boats.

1 Oil Separating Barge PLOVER

3 motor launches NEWARK, GARMOYLE and DUNGLASS.

1 Hydrographic Survey launch CRANNOG.

And a number of very small rope boats which were used in the docks and piers to bring the mooring ropes from ships to the pawls on the dockside.

I think CRANNOG did an awful lot of the surveying for the placement for both Finnart and Hunterston jetties.

And around mid 1990s NEWARK was fitted with an A-frame at the stern and spent a week in Ardrossan Harbour dragging the bottom of Eglinton Dock to clear all debris prior to the construction of the Marina in the dock.

   The motor launches normally berthed at the Trust / Authority workshops at Renfrew although at odd times they laid alongside the dredgers and hoppers in Queen’s Dock.

   If you would care to put the photograph on this site I have a friend who may be able to identify the boats in question.

Jim Howie.

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22 March 2019  @ 1921

J.H. of Scotstoun (Glasgow) emails :

   I well remember reading that wee book a long time ago.   It told of all the wee boats working on the river and had lots of photos of them.   I don’t remember the book name but it gave lots of information on all the boats.

   There were other boats that Jim did not mention

The GARROCH HEAD, SHIELDHALL and DALMARNOCK of the Glasgow City Corporation, working from the Sewage plant near Shieldhall.

The Police boat SEMPER VIGILO.

And the HARRIER of the Clyde River Purification Board.

Another was Ben Parsonage’s MY FAIR LADY ??? of the Glasgow Humane Society and Ben and his son used the boat to search for and find and land the bodies of people who had drowned.

The shipyard D & W Henderson of Meadowside had a launch that towed their punts and painting punts to ships in the river.

And Pilot Boats from Gourock sometimes came up to Glasgow.

Don’t forget the Fireboat ST MUNGO, and there were decrepit old Clyde Puffers that worked from the coaling crane at Queen’s Dock and carried bunker coal to the coal powered steam Dredgers and Hoppers working up and down the river.

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