Ship yard stuff

[Wolfdog91 7,293]

Pretty cool out here at this lil ship yard. Few of welders have been cool to talk with.... basically need a translator though our tankerman for most of the conversation but still.

[mackem 27,197]

24 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Pretty cool out here at this lil ship yard. Few of welders have been cool to talk with.... basically need a translator though our tankerman for most of the conversation but still.

I was brought up in a town that at one time was the biggest ship building town in the world,over 400 registered shipbuilders in its history.

[Welsh_red 4,705]

What does that ship yard do exactly?

[Wolfdog91 7,293]

4 minutes ago, Welsh_red said:

What does that ship yard do exactly?

These guys specialize in tow boats so about anything they need , rebuilding the engines , repainting welding on additions ect. I know we just had our engines rebuilt, valley re done , drains snaked , more electrical stuff in the wheel house , just stripped the bilge, whole lotta stuff 

[Wolfdog91 7,293]

12 minutes ago, mackem said:

I was brought up in a town that at one time was the biggest ship building town in the world,over 400 registered shipbuilders in its history.

Damn thats pretty cool !

[mackem 27,197]

2 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Damn thats pretty cool !

The town died on its feet when the shipyards closed Wolfie,industry stopped,hasn’t been a ship built there for maybe 35 years?Place is a ghost town.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,131]

3 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Damn thats pretty cool !

Just don’t , just f***ing don’t 

[TOMO 26,548]

Funnily enough I've just spent the last two days working in that city....was looking for the pier where all the southern puffs were driven in to the North sea by men in donkey jackets and pit boots..lol

[Wolfdog91 7,293]

21 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Just don’t , just f***ing don’t 

Ummmmm ?

[mackem 27,197]

5 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Ummmmm ?

It's a standing joke Wolfie, long story, Weez keys a these like? And all that lol. 

[Lenmcharristar 9,867]

3 hours ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Damn thats pretty cool !

My family go back over 100 years in one of the best in the world too, Harland and Wolff, pity our most notorious boat lays 3800 metres below the north arlantic and still fascinates to this day. Ive worked in it myself, itr seems to be making a come back after almost complete closure, all thanks to maggie thatcher killing off our industry

[chartpolski 24,296]

4 hours ago, mackem said:

The town died on its feet when the shipyards closed Wolfie,industry stopped,hasn’t been a ship built there for maybe 35 years?Place is a ghost town.

Austin & Pickersgill SD14 shipyard in Southwick, Sunderland.

My dad, brother, uncle and cousin worked on building the covered dry docks.

A little bit of information that may appeal to Wolfie; my brother was labouring to the welders, who, for some strange reason, were all native Americans!

Cheers.

[WILF 47,400]

36 minutes ago, Lenmcharristar said:

My family go back over 100 years in one of the best in the world too, Harland and Wolff, pity our most notorious boat lays 3800 metres below the north arlantic and still fascinates to this day. Ive worked in it myself, itr seems to be making a come back after almost complete closure, all thanks to maggie thatcher killing off our industry

The exhibition is decent mate, you been ?

[pesky1972 5,326]

“If it wasn’t for the nips, being so good at building ships, the yards would still be open on the Clyde”. I’ve worked with a few old welders who remember  the Japs coming into yards on the Clyde and in Leith in the 60’s with their clip-boards, taking notes and going home to build them cheaper and quicker. 
Sad to see big industry die, be it ship building, coal mining, steel works, fishing etc., and take with it the heart and soul of community. We’ve definitely lost something as a society and a nation as a result. Oil will be next and I dread to think what Aberdeen will look like in a decade or two. Whether we like it or not, we’re all Maggie’s children now.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,131]