"City of York (barque) City of York was a 1,194 ton iron ship which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island in the last few kilometres of its voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1899. The three masted, 68 metre (223 feet) long, iron hulled ship was built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders J. Elder and Company. The British owners were the 'Ship City of York Company'. It had only just been beaten by the famous ""Cutty Sark"" in the 1885 ""Great Race"", a race from China to London in which large profits were earned by"
"in the novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea"" by Jules Verne. On 13 April 1867 the ship is accidentally struck by the submarine : ""Two and a half metres below the water-line appeared a neat hole in the form of an isosceles triangle."" Thanks to its watertight compartments, ""Scotia"" makes it safely to Liverpool. In the second Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins book, the SS Scotia is the ship Sherlock and his accomplices travel on. RMS Scotia Scotia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1863 for the fastest westbound"
"sailing from Calcutta to St Helena in 62 days. Avon (ship) The Avon, formerly known as ""Dunolly"", was a 1,572 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 255.6 feet, breadth of 37.6 feet and depth of 22.6 feet. She was built by Charles Connell of Glasgow in 1884 for John Brown of Glasgow. The Nourse Line bought the ship in 1890 and renamed it the Avon after the River Avon in the south west of England. She was primarily used by the Nourse Line for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these"
"Avon (ship) The Avon, formerly known as ""Dunolly"", was a 1,572 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 255.6 feet, breadth of 37.6 feet and depth of 22.6 feet. She was built by Charles Connell of Glasgow in 1884 for John Brown of Glasgow. The Nourse Line bought the ship in 1890 and renamed it the Avon after the River Avon in the south west of England. She was primarily used by the Nourse Line for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows: Avon was a fast ship,"
"of Scotland. On paying off in 1993, the nameplate from ""Opossum"" was given to St Edmundsbury council in commemoration of the submarine's association with the town of Bury St. Edmunds. HMS Opossum (S19) HMS ""Opossum"" (S19) was an in service with the Royal Navy from 1964 to 1993. The ""Oberon"" class was a direct follow-on of the ""Porpoise""-class, with the same dimensions and external design, but updates to equipment and internal fittings, and a higher grade of steel used for fabrication of the pressure hull. As designed for British service, the ""Oberon""-class submarines were in length between perpendiculars and in"
"Great Britain II Great Britain II (also United Friendly, Norsk Data GB, With Integrity, Whitbread Heritage) is a Maxi racing yacht launched by Princess Anne on 21 May 1973 named after the , built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which was the world's first ""iron clad"" steam ship and whose salvage from the Falklands was underwritten by Sir Jack Hayward, who also funded the building of GB II. She was conceived to take part in the first ""Whitbread Round the World Race"" designed by Alan Gurney and built for Chay Blyth and a group of paratroopers who went on to be"
"shaft. The site is occasionally visited by sports divers. HHS Glasgow His Highness' Ship ""Glasgow"" was a royal yacht belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar. She was built in the style of the British frigate which had visited the Sultan in 1873. ""Glasgow"" cost the Sultan £32,735 and contained several luxury features but failed to impress the Sultan and she lay at anchor in harbour at Zanzibar Town for much of her career. The vessel was brought out of semi-retirement on 25 August 1896 when she participated in the Anglo-Zanzibar War and was soon sunk by a flotilla of British"
"HMS Scott (H131) HMS ""Scott"" is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS ""Hecla"". The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS ""Hecla"". She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs Carolyn Portillo, wife of Michael Portillo, the then-Secretary of State for Defence. She"
"achieved fame as the ""Red Bikini Girl"", and, amongst other things, was the first nude centerfold in Australia's edition of ""Penthouse Magazine"". By 1995, she was laid up. In 1999, the liner was brought to Alang, India and scrapped after a long and storied career. RMS Saxonia (1954) RMS ""Saxonia was a British passenger liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland for the Cunard Steamship Company for their Liverpool-Montreal service. She was the first of four almost identical sister ships built by Browns between 1954 and 1957 for UK-Montreal service. The first two of these ships, ""Saxonia"""
"north-east buttress. Several pubs in Scotland were named after Jeanie Deans, including Jeanie Deans Tryste in Edinburgh, and three in Glasgow. A number of ships have been named Jeanie Deans. Two Clyde steamers, PS ""Jeanie Deans"" (1884), built by Barclay Curle & Co in 1884 for the North British Steam Packet Co, and PS ""Jeanie Deans"" (1931), built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1931. Two sailing ships, ""Jeanie Deans"", a four-masted sailing ship, recorded in 1843 as having sailed from Port Glasgow to Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and ""Jeannie Deans"", a 49.3 ft wooden schooner, built in New"
"sailing ship with square sails on each mast (i.e., a clipper). It was commissioned by Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate Sir Hugh Allan for his Allan Shipping Line with freight service between Britain and the States, and named by Allan after his mansion in Montreal, which had been named, in turn, after Ravenscraig Castle in Scotland. The ship was built for Allan in 1866 by Robert Steele & Co. at their Cartsdyke shipyard in Greenock, Scotland (Yard No. 52), and owned by J. & A. Allan & Company of Glasgow, Scotland, an Allan Line subsidiary that was overseen by Sir Hugh's older"
"Kyarra The Kyarra was a 6,953 ton (7,065 t) steel cargo and passenger luxury liner, built in Scotland in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company. The ""Kyarra"" was built at Dumbarton by William Denny and Brothers, and launched on 2 February 1903 on the River Clyde, Scotland. Her name was taken from the aboriginal word for a small fillet of possum fur. For ten years ""Kyarra"" sailed between Fremantle, Western Australia, where she was registered, and Sydney, New South Wales carrying cargo and passengers. She sailed under the flag of the United Steam Navigation Company Limited of London."
"HMS Blackwater HMS ""Blackwater"" was a Laird-type ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1902–1903 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Blackwater in southern England near London she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 27 August 1902 at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead and launched on 25 July 1903. She was completed in March 1904. Her original armament was to be the same as the turtleback torpedo boat destroyers that preceded her. In 1906 the Admiralty decided to upgrade the armament by landing the five 6-pounder naval guns"
"clinging to the boat, which had righted itself. After climbing back into the boat and he found no one aboard except the corpse of a lady passenger dressed in black silk. M'Gartland drifted for several hours before being rescued by the SS ""Enterprise"". Four lifeboats were found empty at the Giant's Causeway, while the stern of the ship drifted ashore at Islay, Scotland. SS Cambria (1869) SS ""Cambria"" was a British cargo-passenger steamship wrecked off the north-west of Ireland on 19 October 1870 with the loss of 178 lives. The iron-hulled ship was built at the Robert Duncan & Co."
"SS Scillin SS ""Scillin was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1903, passed through a succession of owners of various nationalities and had a succession of different names. She was built as H. M. Pellatt but was successively called Memling, Nicole Le Borgne, Giuliana Pagan and Scillin Secondo"" before becoming ""Scillin"" in 1937. By the time of the Second World War the ship was in Italian ownership. In 1942 a Royal Navy submarine sank her in the Mediterranean Sea when she was transporting over 800 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) from North Africa to Italy, killing nearly"
"were sunk in action during the war. ""Saxifrage"" was built at the shipyard of Lobnitz & Company, Renfrew, Scotland, as yard number 827 and launched on 29 January 1918. She was named ""Saxifrage"" after the flower also known as ""London Pride"". HMS ""Saxifrage"" escorted convoys in UK waters during 1918, and engaged nine U-boats, as recorded in her logbooks held in the National Archives at Kew. In 1922 she was permanently moored on the Thames, and renamed ""President"". Other members of the class served as patrol vessels throughout the world during the peacetime years between the wars, but almost all"
"boats. One additional 12-pounder 8 cwt gun could be dismounted for service ashore. ""Hermes"" also carried six 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and two submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes. The ship's protective deck armour ranged in thickness from . The engine hatches were protected by of armour. The main guns were fitted with 3-inch gun shields and the conning tower had armour 6 inches thick. ""Hermes"", named after the Greek god Hermes, was laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering at their shipyard in Govan, Scotland on 30 April 1897, and launched on 7 April 1898, when she was named by Lady Kelvin."
"dispute continued for some time. The Scottish vessels were renamed ""Edinburgh"" and ""Glasgow"" since the Royal Navy already had vessels named ""Royal William"" and ""Royal Mary"". Ships under these names still operate in the Royal Navy today. A third Royal Scots Navy ship was allowed to retain her name of ""Dumbarton Castle"". Their absorption into the English navy was unpopular with many Scots seamen. One hundred of Gordon's men mutinied at Leith having got it into their heads that they would be sent to the West Indies or elsewhere outside of home waters. They were used to serving in Scottish"
"service, taken out into deep water and scuttled. SS William Mackinnon SS ""William Mackinnon"" was a steamboat on Lake Victoria in East Africa. She was named after Sir William Mackinnon, founder of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC). Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built her in 1890 for the IBEAC. She was a ""knock down"" vessel; that is, she was bolted together in the shipyard at Paisley, all the parts marked with numbers, disassembled into many hundreds of parts and transported in kit form by sea to Kenya for reassembly. However, once the kit reached"
"SS Sir Walter Scott SS ""Sir Walter Scott"" is a small steamship that has provided pleasure cruises and a ferry service on Loch Katrine in the scenic Trossachs of Scotland for more than a century, and is the only surviving screw steamer in regular passenger service in Scotland. It is named after the writer Walter Scott, who set his 1810 poem Lady of the Lake, and his 1818 novel Rob Roy around Loch Katrine. In 1859 Loch Katrine became Glasgow's main water supply, connected by aqueducts and tunnels to the city more than away through a hilly landscape. The Trossachs"
"upper deck were protected by 4.5-inch armour plates on the sides of the hull and a 4.5-inch transverse bulkhead to their rear protected them from raking fire. The armour was backed by of oak and the iron skin of the ship. ""Lord Clyde"", named after the recently deceased Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, was ordered on 3 July 1863 from Pembroke Naval Dockyard. She was laid down on 29 September 1863 and launched on 13 October 1864. The ship was commissioned in June 1866 to run her sea trials and completed on 15 September, for the cost of"
"PS Slieve Donard PS ""Slieve Donard was a United Kingdom passenger paddle steamer that in different periods of her history was also called PS ""Albion and HMS ""Albyn"". ""Albion"" is the name she bore the longest and may be the one by which she is better known in England. ""Slieve Donard"" was her original name and the one by which she will be best known on the island of Ireland. J&G Thomson launched ""Slieve Donard"" in 1893 for the Belfast and County Down Railway (B&CDR). In 1900 she joined P&A Campbell's White Funnel Fleet of pleasure steamers and was renamed"
"her. One may still find nails and timber at the site. Two Admiralty Pattern anchors from the ""Conway"" survive; one at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool and one at Victoria Dock, Caernarfon, outside the former Maritime Museum. HMS Nile (1839) HMS ""Nile"" was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 June 1839 at Plymouth Dockyard. She was named to commemorate the Battle of the Nile in 1798. After service in the Baltic Sea and the North America and West Indies Station, she was converted to a training ship and renamed"
"off Dungeness in the English Channel at position . She was not awarded a battle honour for her service. She was assigned a pennant number during her career. HMS Blackwater HMS ""Blackwater"" was a Laird-type ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1902–1903 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Blackwater in southern England near London she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 27 August 1902 at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead and launched on 25 July 1903. She was completed in March 1904. Her original armament was to"
"her armour was . HMS ""Audacious"" was ordered on 29 April 1867 from Robert Napier in Govan, Glasgow. She was laid down on 26 June 1867 and launched on 27 February 1869 in a gale. The winds caught the rear of the ship as she was about halfway down the slipway and twisted her enough that some plates and frames of her bottom were damaged. The ship was completed on 10 September 1870 and commissioned the following month. She cost £256,291 to build. Upon completion she became guard ship of the First Reserve at Kingstown, Ireland (modern Dún Laoghaire), but"
"and ""Atlantis"" were used in its assembly. NASA chose, on cost grounds, to build ""Endeavour"" from spares rather than refitting ""Enterprise"" or The orbiter is named after the British HMS ""Endeavour"", the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771). This is why the name is spelled in the British English manner, rather than the American English (""Endeavor""). This has caused confusion, including when NASA itself misspelled a sign on the launch pad in 2007. The Space Shuttle carried a piece of the original wood from Cook's ship inside the cockpit. The name also honored"
"Rhone (ship) The Rhone, formerly known as ""Gilroy"", was a 1,768 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 259.2 feet, breadth of 39.9 feet and depth of 23.2 feet. The ""Rhone"" was built by John Elder of Glasgow, Scotland in 1875 for Gilroy, Sons & Company of Dundee. The Nourse Line bought the ship in 1889 and renamed it the Rhone after the River Rhone. She was primarily used by the Nourse Line for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. She was also used to repatriate 132 former labourers from St Lucia back to India. The"
"but far-seeing naval officer Captain (later Admiral) Charles Napier, who had conceived the idea of a fleet of steamships for service on the River Seine. The ship was named after the master of the Horseley Ironworks, Tipton, Staffordshire, where she was pre-fabricated to a design jointly formulated by Captain Napier, Aaron Manby and his son Charles. She was then shipped in pieces to Rotherhithe on the Thames and assembled there. Of 116 tons burthen, the ship was 120 feet (36.6 m) long. Her flat-bottomed hull was made of iron plate fastened to angle-iron ribs. There was one deck, of wood,"
"Underground is the world's first underground railway. Running along the East Coast Main Line between Edinburgh and London, the ""Flying Scotsman"" has been ranked the world's most famous steam locomotive. Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, another major figure of the Industrial Revolution, was placed second in a 2002 BBC nationwide poll to determine the ""100 Greatest Britons"". He created the Great Western Railway, as well as famous steamships including the ""SS Great Britain,"" the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, and ""SS Great Eastern"" which laid the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable. Josiah Wedgwood pioneered the industrialisation of pottery manufacture. In 1820,"
"Historic Shipwreck. Falls of Halladale The Falls of Halladale was a four-masted iron-hulled barque that was built in 1886 for the long-distance bulk carrier trade. Her dimensions were 83.87m x 12.64m x 7.23m and she displaced and . Built for the Falls Line (Wright, Breakenridge & Co., Glasgow, Scotland) at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Greenock on the River Clyde, she was named after a waterfall on the Halladale River in the Caithness district of Scotland. The ship's design was advanced for her time, incorporating features that improved crew safety and efficiency such as elevated bridges to allow the"
"HMS Wear HMS ""Wear"" was a Palmer Type River Class Destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Wear a river flowing through Sunderland on the East Coast of England, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 7 March 1904 at the Palmers shipyard at Jarrow and launched on 21 January 1905. She was completed on 1 August 1905. Her original armament was to be the same as the Turtleback torpedo boat destroyers that preceded her. In 1906 the Admiralty"
"Falls of Halladale The Falls of Halladale was a four-masted iron-hulled barque that was built in 1886 for the long-distance bulk carrier trade. Her dimensions were 83.87m x 12.64m x 7.23m and she displaced and . Built for the Falls Line (Wright, Breakenridge & Co., Glasgow, Scotland) at the shipyard of Russell & Co., Greenock on the River Clyde, she was named after a waterfall on the Halladale River in the Caithness district of Scotland. The ship's design was advanced for her time, incorporating features that improved crew safety and efficiency such as elevated bridges to allow the crew to"
"Genoa in 1916. She was sailing between Genoa and Barry Roads when she was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic off the coast of Spain on 4 May 1917 by ""UC-69"". There were no casualties. SS Sagamore SS ""Sagamore"" was the only British built whaleback freighter. She was built in 1893, in Sunderland, England by the William Doxford & Sons shipyard; she was built under license from Scottish-American Captain Alexander McDougall (1845–1923). Whalebacks had a rather unique design. They had an unusual cylindrical, cigar shaped hull that when fully loaded resembled the back of the whale, hence the name. Their"