A guide to the Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland, 1895
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A Guide to the Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland
HDC1643
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service2012, National Park Service
Title: Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland
Date: 1895
Identifier/Call Number: HDC1643 (SAFR 23141)
Publisher:
Ordnance Survey Office (Southampton, England)
Physical Description:
1 item
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: Photocopy of the Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland, displays the Scotstoun Shipbuilding
Yard where the BALCLUTHA was built by Charles Connell in 1886.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], HDC1643 (SAFR 23141), Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland, San Francisco
Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-01781
Gift of the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association.
Historical or Biographical Note
The BALCLUTHA was built in 1886 at the Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard on the River Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland.
In 1861, Charles Connell founded the Charles Connell and Company shipbuilders on the River Clyde near Glasgow, Scotland and
built the Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard. Over the next 107 years more than 500 ships were built at the yard, from sailing vessels
to steel freighters. One of the ships built at Scottoun Shipbuilding was the three masted, steel hulled, square rigged BALCLUTHA
in 1886. BALCLUTHA made seventeen voyages around Cape Horn to and from San Francisco. Later she would be involved in the Pacific
Coast lumber trade and the Alaskan Salmon industry. In 1954 she was purchased by the San Francisco Maritime Museum. Transferred
to the US Park Service in 1978, she was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1985.
This photocopy of the originally photozincographed map from the United Kingdom's Ordnace Survey Office, Southampton, England,
shows the shipbuilding yard and the surrounding countryside in 1895, only nine years after the launching of the BALCLUTHA.
Photocopy of the Ordnance Survey map showing Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow, Scotland, displays the Scotstoun Shipbuilding
Yard where the BALCLUTHA was built by Charles Connell in 1886.
The Ordnance Survey map is labeled Lanarkshire sheet v.8, second edition, and shows the Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, the River
Clyde, the town of Lanark, two other shipbuilding yards, a hydraulic foundry and slaughterhouses on the river. It is drawn
to a scale of twenty five and one third inches to the mile and was originally photozincographed and published at the Ordnance
Survey Office, Southampton, England in 1895.
Single item.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Balclutha (museum ship)
Connell, Charles
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. Historical Section
Maps
Maritime history
Shipbuilding
Design and construction