Titan Cranes and a "world first" Danish Ship & some Diesel history!
Finnieston Crane The Titan Crane at Finnieston (adjacent to the SEC complex) is one of four Titan cranes which have been preserved on the Clyde out of the numerous cranes which used to be seen on the Clyde. The Titans were the biggest! The Finnieston crane was used to load newly produced railway engines onto ships for shipping worldwide. If you look further down the river, you will see another Titan crane which was situated at the Barclay, Curle & Co. Clydeholm Yard at Whiteinch. In 1912, Barclay, Curle & Co. built ship called the Jutlandia , for the East Asiatic Company, a Danish business with headquarters in Copenhagen. Two sister ships were built in Denmark at the same time (the first was Selandia). These three were the first large sea-going ships in the world to have diesel engines. Rudolf Diesel , a German, patented his engine in 1892. Almost immediately the Glasgow shipbuilders negotiated a licence and by 1914 had the first works in...