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1986

NS3174 : Ocean Alliance under construction

taken 39 years ago, near to Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland

Ocean Alliance under construction
Ocean Alliance under construction
At Scott Lithgow's Glen shipyard, circa 1986. The semi-submersible drilling platform for Britoil was the last vessel to be built there. The site is now a retail park, with the A8 dual carriageway running approximately left to right where the rig is standing, the big sheds are now the site of a Tesco supermarket.

See also NS3174 : The Glen Yard & NS3174 : The Glen Yard.

Scanned from a slide.
Site of Scott Lithgow's Glen and Kingston shipyards

Scott Lithgow's Glen and Kingston yards stood between Anderson Street and the Greenock boundary.

The east end of the vast site is occupied by a Tesco superstore. The west end (west of the realigned A8 dual carriageway) is now a housing estate which is still being developed at the time of writing in September 2013.

The central part of the site, east and west of the Glen Burn, has been in a brownfield state for many years, but is now being developed, with a B & Q store and a drive-through Costa Coffee currently under construction. This construction work required temporary realignment of the Glen Burn.

At the time of writing, one of the main Glen Yard gateways and a section of the perimeter wall still stand at Belhaven Street (which is now an overgrown cul-de-sac), although the gate is a wire mesh construction and not the original bright red solid design that I recall from the 70s and 80s. A few bricked-up "clocking-in" gates also survive. A fading hand-written sign showing the way to "Scotts" can also be seen.


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Geographical Context: Industry Estuary, Marine Primary Subject: Shipyard
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NS3174, 877 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Thomas Nugent   (more nearby)
Date Taken
1986   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 29 October, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 316 747 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.1536N 4:41.7645W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 326 739
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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