DUNDEE’s £80 million V&A design museum opened to the public on Saturday September 15 showcasing the history of design both in Scotland worldwide. Designed by
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Author: Hugh Dougherty
Waverley sails up the main street!
IT’S not every day that you come across PS Waverley steaming up the main street in Giffnock in East Renfrewshire, just outside Glasgow. Giffnock, in
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New Buoyancy benchmark for Maid of the Loch
LOCH Lomond steamer, Maid of the Loch, has been reunited with its buoyancy benches after the owners, Loch Lomond Steamship Company, joined forces with the
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Vintage transport in focus at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
SHIPS and boats are among the vintage transport in focus at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh in a new photographic exhibition, Planes, Trains
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BEM for puffer champion
NICK Walker, Puffer Preservation Trust director and skipper of Puffer VIC 32, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday
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Spartan’s hold to host puffer saga
THE history of the Clyde puffers is to be told in the hold of MV Spartan. The Scottish Maritime Museum’s puffer has had doors cut
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Vic steams on in 75th year
VIC 32, the last coal-fired Clyde puffer in service, is marking 75 years since she was launched in 1943 from Dunston’s shipyard in Thorne, Yorkshire,
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First art show at Scottish Maritime Museum
THE Scottish Maritime Museum is mounting its first maritime art exhibition, showcasing over 100 works collected by the Irvine museum over the last three years
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Maid appeals for volunteers
THE Loch Lomond Steamship Company Limited has issued a fresh plea for volunteers to come on board as the final pieces in the £5m funding
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