Shipping
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 340 items and more than 3000 photographs that relate to shipping. These date from the 19th and 20th centuries. This collection comprises items that relate to the working life of vessels and the companies that owned them, with the finest of the material relating to Glasgow-based shipping companies. Objects include merchant and Royal Navy items such as uniforms, gun muzzle tampions, honours boards, paintings, prints, drawings, posters, house flags, bells, tableware, guidebooks, ephemera and ship fittings. The collection has significant items representing early steam services on the River Clyde. This includes the bell, compass and last logbook of the paddle steamer Comet from 1819–20, and a poster for the PS Leven from 1827. Other material ranges from a full-size boat to photographs, ship portraits and tableware. Many items relate strongly to the ship model collection. For example, the builder’s model of the pioneering turbine steamship King Edward of 1901 is complemented by the vessel’s bell, a poster advertising her first season and timetables detailing her sailings over subsequent years. A fine model of the battlecruiser HMS Hood is complemented by personal effects such as photographs, a crossing the line certificate and a cap tally.
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