Wm Denny & Bros' shipyard nestled behind Dumbarton
Rock and castle where the River Leven meets the Clyde estuary.
All that remains now is the Test Tank, now part of the Scottish
Maritime Museum, but the first privately-owned experimental facility
of its kind when built in 1883. The fitting-out basin has recently
been filled in and is the site of the new Dumbarton football stadium.
The company were pioneers in the construction of turbine-powered
passenger ships, beginning with TS King Edward in 1901 and later
were early adopters of marine diesel propulsion through a cooperation
arrangement with the Sulzer company of Switzerland. Denny's, in
partnership with Brown's, developed a design for vessel stabilisers
widely adopted throughout the industry. They also were early experimenters
with hydrofoils and jet propulsion. The company closed in 1963.
26 of Denny's original ship plans
relating to yard Number 1262 are held in the archive of the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich. Click here for details
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