Synopsis
The men, the docks, the yards and the ships: photographs, captions and text tell the story of the Clyde in this historical study. This photographic history of Britain's greatest industrial river takes the reader from the relatively humble workshops of the 1840s to the heyday of imperial shipbuilding between 1880 and 1920, when half of all steamships in the world were "Clydebuilt". The beginning of the decline is also charted, as the years of depression took their toll on the once indomitable shipyards. For decades, the Clyde was renowned for the quality and craftsmanship of its vessels, the skill of its men and the entrepreneurial flair of the yard owners. From Govan to Greenock, ships of every type and size were constructed with pride and expertise. As well as the legendary warships and great liners - "HMS Hood", "HMS Tiger", "Lusitania", "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary" - this book details the steamers and dredgers, merchant ships and ferries which helped forge the economic and military might of the British Empire. Michael Moss is the author of "Clyde Shipbuilding from Old Photographs" and "The Workshop of the British Empire".

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: a potentially excellent book spoiled by sloppy research, 2 Jan 2000 By A Customer The Clyde,Portrait of a River,is well laid out, readable, and profusely illustrated. It should be an excellent publication for anyone with an interest in the river, especially ship buffs like myself, for the history of the river's role in world shipbuilding has received much less coverage than it deserves. However, it doesn't take an expert to see the flaws in the book, which can only be put down to sloppy research. There are a number of glaring examples which spring to mind. The cruiser HMS Bermuda never carried a five-inch secondary armament; this was an American calibre. British cruisers carried four-inch secondary armament. If that seems like nit-picking, a photograph of a post-WWII Tiger-class cruiser is captioned as a WWI battlecruiser, while the battlecruiser HMS Repulse is captioned as a battleship. The battleship Barham is described as having been mined and towed to port upside down. She wasn't mined -she was torpedoed by a U-boat and blew up and sank in probably the most dramatic pieces of film of the second world war-in these circumstances she couldn't have been towed anywhere. I gave up believing that anything in the book could possibly be relied on as factual. Properly revised, this would be a worthwhile publication. As it stands, it's a waste of money.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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British & Irish history
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Shipbuilding industry
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United Kingdom, Great Britain
20th century
c 1800 to c 1900
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