Ships pics

[radar]

Here is a photo taken from the shore at Cardross in the early 70s looking towards the hills in the north across the Tail o' the bank. Even in the 70s there were ships anchored on the Tail o' the Bank waiting to be taken up river or into Greenock.



The buildings in the middle distance are the Murray's Farm and behind it, Seabank Cottage. The area in-between was the location of the Air Defence Battery mentioned in the "Bombs over Glasgow" thread elsewher on the site.

[Local Hero]

I found this photo while browsing the net of the Waverley and it's sister ship the Queen of Scots at Anderston Quay in the mid 70s. Talk about big changes on the riverfront! Appears to have been taken from the southside of the river just below the Kingston Bridge.

http://www.clydeshipping.co.uk/images/albums/15_12_2002/1145.jpg

You probably already know the site but I liked this image since I frequent Springfield Quay on the south side of the river a lot and it's familiar to me.

[macca734]

Does anyone have any pics of the boat thats currently half submerge and floating inverted in the Clyde, near Port Glasgow / Greenocky way. I used to see it every morning on the train going to James Watt College in Greenock. Someone at the time told me it was an old sugar boat.

I also remember the ballsed-up demolition of one of the last massive in the same area but the name of the yard escapes me. One day I was passing and this big crane was perfectly triangular, looking like a permanent fixture and the next it was snapped off with one end on the ground and the other still attached.

[Pripyat]

I also remember the ballsed-up demolition of one of the last massive in the same area but the name of the yard escapes me. One day I was passing and this big crane was perfectly triangular, looking like a permanent fixture and the next it was snapped off with one end on the ground and the other still attached.

Scott Lithgow yard was the home to the Goliath crane, sadly
RIP 1997

A few pics

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~hfcampbe/crane3.htm

[allyharp]

Coincidentally I was looking at sites of the very same crane just 2 days ago. Here's 2 other links: http://members.aol.com/greenock/gol/Goliath.html http://www.portglasgow4u.co.uk/oldphotos/goliath.html

And there's another thread somewhere here about the sugar boat, just started a couple of days ago. Might be in the photography section?

[macca734]

Pripyat and Allyharp;

Aye, thats the monster. Used to look forward to seeing it every morning, like something hewn from the landscape itself. I liked the poem on one of the photo pages;

"....if they had treated this river better..........."

Somehow when I look at the photos in Times Past at the streets black with men and the yards churning out ship after ship, the idea of yet another shopping district with houses accessible to very few suddenly doesnt seem like the fitting tribute they herald it as.

Anyway, rant over, thanks for the linkies.

Wullie.

[Pripyat]

Oh Sh*t !!!!!! Get out my way ya wee tug. I'm coming through.... Perpare to die

[Vladimir]

What was that full of?

[Pripyat]

What was that full of?

Liquid Gas, Vladimir. Lovely stuff

[allyharp]

Liquid Gas

How the feck does that work?
Come to think of it, i think do have a (very) vague recollection of dual state materials from physics last year...

[macca734]

Liquid Gas

How the feck does that work?
Come to think of it, i think do have a (very) vague recollection of dual state materials from physics last year...

Yep, you cool a gas enough, it becomes a liquid.

[allyharp]

Liquid Gas

How the feck does that work?
Come to think of it, i think do have a (very) vague recollection of dual state materials from physics last year...

Yep, you cool a gas enough, it becomes a liquid.

But if it becomes a liquid it's no longer a gas any more, right?

[Pripyat]

And now for the science bit

http://www.ch-iv.com/lng/lngfact.htm

[Apollo]

But if it becomes a liquid it's no longer a gas any more, right?

Well... yes and no

Unfortunately, there's a cheeky little thing called the triple point, neatly defined as:

A term in physics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

In other word, you can have a pot (albeit a rather sophisticated pot) in whch you can have an amount of a substance, and within it, the substance exists simultaneously as a solid, a liquid and a gas.

The most common one is the water triple point cell, which can be made and maintained fairly easily in any decent lab, as it works at 0.01 C, where its assigned value on is 273.16 K (0.01 C), and is used to establish a temperature standard.

[macca734]

But if it becomes a liquid it's no longer a gas any more, right?

Well... yes and no

Unfortunately, there's a cheeky little thing called the triple point, neatly defined as:

A term in physics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

In other word, you can have a pot (albeit a rather sophisticated pot) in whch you can have an amount of a substance, and within it, the substance exists simultaneously as a solid, a liquid and a gas.

The most common one is the water triple point cell, which can be made and maintained fairly easily in any decent lab, as it works at 0.01 C, where its assigned value on is 273.16 K (0.01 C), and is used to establish a temperature standard.

And dont even get started on supercooling.

Triple point; havent heard that since my academic days.

But the best one by far was thermodynamic equilibrium. Glad to see other geeks, sorry engineers, here too.