SPW035647 SCOTLAND (1931). Gare Loch, general view, showing Shandon and merchant shipping. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.

Title	[SPW035647] Gare Loch, general view, showing Shandon and merchant shipping. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
Reference	SPW035647
Date	1931
Link	Canmore Collection item 1259435
Place name
Parish	MARITIME - ARGYLL AND BUTE
District	MARITIME
Country	SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing	224643, 687517
Longitude / Latitude	-4.815876213489, 56.048392911189
National Grid Reference	NS246875

Merchant ships laid up because of downturn in world trade caused by the Depression Report as Inappropriate	yes	Monday 6th of December 2021 08:56:28 PM
Shandon pier, used by Clyde passenger steamers until 1915 and demolished for road widening in 1969. Report as Inappropriate	mannidaze	Sunday 20th of January 2019 06:53:29 PM

Accoding to the President of the Board of Trade, giving an answer to a question in the House of Commons on 15 September 1931, 743 British vessels of 2,018,000 tons were laid up in Great Britain and Ireland on 1 July 1931. A tenth of those, of 251,000 tons, were laid up in the river Fal estuary in Cornwall. The slump in trade began in 1929	MB	Thursday 20th of September 2012 09:42:07 AM
Given the "attitude" of the various ships and the location I think it is fair to assume that these are idle, laid-up ships waiting for better times in order to resume trading.	Onthecoast	Wednesday 19th of September 2012 04:56:03 PM