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type engine rated at 85 hp, with 49in piston diameter, and 50in stroke. This directly drove the 16 ft diameter paddle wheels, which were 5 ft 8in wide. Running at 31.5 revolutions per minute this gave a speed of 13.5 miles per hour. After the deaths of both David Tod and John
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carrying out marine engineering work. In 1844 an account is given (complete with drawings) of the engine they built for the river steamer Invincible. This was a
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Macgregor, the shipbuilding business was sold and renamed D and W Henderson and Company. After the First World War it was taken over by
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was built in steel for a Scottish challenger syndicate in 1887. She was unsuccessful in the Cup and was sold to German Emperor
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The office buildings existed until 2017 and were used by haulage businesses: initially by Duncan Barbour Ltd and then by
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had a steel frame, a wooden hull, and a pine deck. She challenged unsuccessfully for the America's Cup in 1893.
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and challenged unsuccessfully that year for the America's Cup in a contest surrounded by controversy.
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Tod and Macgregor yard built around 145 ships and D&W Henderson built around 377 ships, including
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/pictures-glasgows-abandoned-buildings-set-3050555
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on the River Clyde, Scotland in 1893 for owner Lord Dunraven of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
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and designed by George Lennox Watson. She was a near sister ship to the Watson-designed
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The company office buildings can be seen here under the heading Scotway House.
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Map of the Glasgow docks in 1909 showing D & W Henderson & Co
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https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSW00019
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Index


marine engineering
shipbuilding
Clydeside
River Clyde
River Kelvin

Clyde Port Authority
David Tod
John Macgregor
'steeple'
Harland & Wolff
Loch Sloy
PS Terranora
SMS Loreley (1885)
USS Christabel
SS Saint Ninian
USS Alcedo
SS Caledonia (1904)
SS Ancona
SS California (1907)
SS Taormina (1908)
SS Verona (1908)
PS Duchess of Richmond (1910)
SS Cameronia (1911)
HMS Arabis (1915)
HMS Tonbridge (1924)
Dee Why and Curl Curl
MV Henry Stanley
America's Cup

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