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Barclay Curle

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The Swan Hunter owned Barclay Curle ceased building ships in its Clydeholm Shipyard at Whiteinch, Glasgow in 1968, focusing its operations on its Tyneside yards. The Elderslie Dockyard, which lay further west on the other side of Scotstoun and operated by Barclay Curle, was acquired by
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In 1913, the North British Diesel Engine Works was built at the company's Clydeholm Shipyard in Whiteinch, a seminal modernist building designed by Karl Bernhard and supervised by John Galt that was influenced by
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from John Shearer & Sons, to take the excess orders that the firm's existing Clydeholm yard in Whiteinch could not handle. Barclay Curle itself was acquired in 1912 by
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during 1818. In 1862, the company built a large engineering works at Stobcross in Glasgow. In 1876, the company moved their yard down the river to
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to enable transfer of engines for fitting out of ships berthed alongside. It remains one of four examples to remain on the
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As part of the Seawind Group, the company is no longer based in Glasgow but retains ship repair facilities in
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in 1974. The North British Diesel Engine Works continued and was purchased by the marine engineering company
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for the Danish merchant fleet, the first British-built oil-engined vessel designed for ocean service.
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was constructed on the quayside adjacent to the engine works at the Clydehom Yard by
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The company records of the Barclay Curle company are held by Glasgow City Archives.
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On 11 November 1911 they launched from the Clydeholm yard MS
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The former North British Diesel Engine Works and disused
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and transferred production to naval weapon systems by
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of Glasgow Library. Includes Barclay Curle archives
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Index

Private
Shipbuilding
Plymouth
Devon
Naval ships
Merchant ships
marine engines
Parent
Swan Hunter
www.seawindmarine.com
shipbuilding

Titan Crane
Whiteinch
Stobcross
Glasgow
Scotland
Whiteinch
Scotstoun
Swan Hunter
Peter Behrens
AEG turbine factory
Berlin
Titan Crane
Sir William Arrol & Co.
River Clyde
Finnieston
Clydebank
Greenock
First World War

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