SPW042225 SCOTLAND (1933). Portuguese Douro Class Destroyer, Rothesay Dock, Clydebank. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.

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Details

Title [SPW042225] Portuguese Douro Class Destroyer, Rothesay Dock, Clydebank. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
Reference SPW042225
Date 1933
Link Canmore Collection item 1259481
Place name
Parish OLD KILPATRICK (CLYDEBANK)
District CLYDEBANK
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 249956, 669658
Longitude / Latitude -4.3998863172325, 55.896658935906
National Grid Reference NS500697

Pins

Whitecrook Street.

Weechookieburdie
Tuesday 28th of October 2014 09:25:30 PM
Bridge over the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Line (Clydebank Riverside to Kilbowie Stations) carrying the Glasgow, Yoker & Clydebank Line. L & D trackbed now incorporated into Argyll Road, Glasgow Yoker & Clydebank Line still operational.

Weechookieburdie
Tuesday 28th of October 2014 09:24:01 PM
John Brown's Shipyard main gate

bankie
Thursday 1st of May 2014 07:19:50 PM
Empire Cinema burned down 1958/9

bankie
Thursday 1st of May 2014 07:17:42 PM
clydebank riverside station

daz
Sunday 10th of February 2013 09:57:24 AM
Looks like torpedo tube installation although these vessels were reputedly equipped as minelayers

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:24:03 PM
Anti-aircraft gun under covers

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:14:12 PM
Two anti-aircraft guns under covers

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:13:38 PM
Main armamament - four Vickers Armstrong 4.7 inch guns

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:11:03 PM
'... Prince'. Possibly a dredger

MB
Sunday 23rd of December 2012 10:38:46 PM
Foremost Prince. Later worked at Newhaven before being towed across the oceas to New Zealand. Later worked at Singapore and in Turkish ports to circa 1985. Source:

www.ournewhaven.org.uk/page_id__2271_path__0p69p87p63p.aspx

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:02:56 PM

User Comment Contributions

the railway station behind the ship is the now closed clydebank riverside. the station building survives as private housing

daz
Monday 4th of February 2013 10:37:56 AM
This is probably the Vouga which was launched at the end of January 1933 and commisioned on 12 June. Lima wasn't commissioned until 9 October that year

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:20:20 PM
The Douro class vessel was modelled on the British destroyer Ambuscade and is probably either 'Lima' or 'Vouga'. Both these vessels were built by Yarrow shipbuilders. Four other Douro class destroyers were built in Portugal but engined by Yarrow

MB
Monday 24th of December 2012 01:05:54 PM