Bay Shipbuilding Yard
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WorksName and dates
Bay Shipbuilding Yard (-1960)Description
This ship building yard was on the south side of the Port Glasgow Wet Dock (just east of Port Glasgow West Harbour and Port Glasgow East Harbour). The yard now longer exists, and the wet dock has been filled in (the green to the west of the Newark Shipyard.
1840 Opened by Peter Murchie
1856 To Thomas Wishart
1863 To Kirkpatrick and McIntyre
1865 To McFadyen
1874 To Russell & Co. (Yard leased by Joseph Russell, Anderson Rodger and William Todd Lithgow).
1878 SV Falls of Clyde built.
1892 To Rodger & Company
1911 To Lithgow
1938 Closed (Minor use afterwards)
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ShipyardAliases
Dock Shipbuilding Yard03/10/2022
| Nearby stations Port Glasgow Upper Port Glasgow Woodhall Bogston Cartsdyke Cardross Whinhill Greenock Central Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Upper Greenock Greenock West Kilmacolm Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Drumfrochar | Dock Shipbuilding Yard Newark Shipyard Gourock Rope Works [2nd] Port Glasgow Wet Dock Port Glasgow Harbour Port Glasgow East Dock Port Glasgow Goods Port Glasgow Graving Dock Port Glasgow West Dock Castle Yard Port Glasgow Junction Fyfe Park Shipbreaking Yard Port Glasgow East Yard Brown Street Yard Tourist/other Newark Castle [Port Glasgow] |
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