Summary
a steel block the size of a three-storey building and the length of three double-decker buses took more than an hour to move the two miles between Glasgow's two shipyards - but proved a new era for Clyde shipbuilding was under way.
It took an hour to hoist the 240-tonne block on to the deck of a 300ft barge at the BAE Systems yard at Govan before it travelled to its sister yard at Scotstoun.See the full content of this document
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Two-Mile Trip Signals Boom for Shipyards
The curved block - given a coat of protective deep red paint -...
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