Scottish Maritime Museum

Russell Braes McFarlane wearing Merchant Navy junior office uniform

Robert McKinven and Paul Darragh unloading coal from the puffer Druid

The archives held by the Scottish Maritime Museum include Company records from builders and shipping companies, including builders such as the Fairlie Yacht Slip company, Scott Lithgow, and John Brown Engineering, and complete records of the Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, including technical data for all ships tested at the tank.

Other museum records include seamen’s papers, continuous certificates of discharge and wartime mariner’s documents. The museum also holds a large collection of original ship and yacht plans and drawings. These collections provide insight into the lives of sailors, engineers and shipbuilders during the heyday of Scottish ship and yacht building.

The Museum’s photographic collections cover shipbuilding on the Clyde and the Ayrshire coast, engineering and working lives. Photographic collections also give an encyclopaedic overview of shipping around Scotland, with over 17,000 individual ship photographs.

Clyde Shipping Co.'s Passenger Handbook for 1895

The repair yard shed at Smiths of Tighnabruich

Assembly of Doxford engines in the Alexander Stephen and Sons Linthouse Engine shop

Launch of Queen Mary in 1934, with tug Flying Eagle and Tug Tender Paladin in attendance

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