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Cranes at UIE yard, 1987
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Doon the Watter - Clyde Tunnel to Erskine Bridge
Cranes at UIE yard, 1987. Formerly John Brown's shipyard, which became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968, then Marathon, then UIE (Union Industrielle d'Entreprise) bought the shipyard in 1980, built oil rigs for the North Sea such as this one - Conoco Vulcan - and closed it again in 2001. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
18 September 2007
Oil rig under construction, Marathon yard, 1975
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Doon the Watter - Clyde Tunnel to Erskine Bridge
An oil rig for the North Sea under construction at Marathon (the former John Brown) shipyard in Clydebank in 1975. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
