Scottish Maritime Museum

The Scottish Maritime Museum is an industrial museum thit hauds a Collection Recognised as Nationally Significant to Scotland (Scots: Collection Kent as Signeeficantly National-like tae Scotland). It is fund at twa site in the Wast o Scotland in Irvin an Dumbarton, focusin maistly on Scotland's shipbiggin heritage.

Scottish Maritime Museum

The Linthoose biggin
Established	1991
Location	The Linthoose, Harbour Road, Irvin, Ayrshire KA12 8BT Scotland
Coordinates	55.60953°N 4.67684°W / 55.60953; -4.67684
Scottish Maritime Museum The Dumbarton building Established 1983 Location Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, Castle Street, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire G82 1QS Scotland Coordinates 55.94342°N 4.56312°W / 55.94342; -4.56312 Teep Maritime museum Collection size Buildings, ship testing tank, historic vessels, artefacts, art, personal items, shipbuilding tools and machinery Director David Mann Curator Abigail McIntyre Wabsteid www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org

Irvin - The Linthoose

The museum's Linthouse biggin is fund at Irvine Harbour, seetiuait in the category A listit umwhile Ingine Shop bi Alexander Stephen and Sons, thit wis taen an pit awa fraw thair abandont Linthouse shipyaird in Glesga in 1991. Nou the Linthoose ingineerin shop is hame tae a collection wi signeeficant vessels includin MV Kyles and MV Spartan thit are listit on the National Historic Ships UK register. A verra signeeficant vessel biggit fae airn in 1872 in Paisley, MV Kyles is the auldest airn Clyde biggit vessel still afloat in Breetain. It wis pit intae the museum's collection in 1984. The museum haes a collection o marine ingines an industrial machine tuils an aw, an awns a reduin 1920s wirker's tenement flat at Irvine Harbour. The museum haes a signeeficant collection o artwork fund bi the Heritage Lottery Fund forby. In 2020 the museum managed tae heeze funds tae keep MV Kyles as a floatin vessel.

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  Leukin seaward taewarts the museum's pontoons, wi the closed 'Big Idea' biggin an fuitbridg in the backgrun
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  The Scottish Maritime Museum wi the auld ICI Explosives tug MV Garnock tae the richt
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  The ship exhibits at the pontoons
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  The Clyde Puffer MV Spartan at the slipway
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  The A-listit Linthoose biggin is the main exhibeetion haw at the Irvin Museum

Dumbarton - Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank

The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, in Dumbarton, pits a focus on the naval architect warld. Shipbigger William Denny Jr fae William Denny and Brothers wis inspired bi the wirk fae weel-forrit naval architect William Froude an completit the tank for his shipyaird in 1883. It wis the warld's first commercial exemple o a ship testin tank. Re-appent as a museum in 1983, it hauds lots o its oreeginal featurs, includin the oreeginal 100-meter-lang tank. The museum tells the story o the test tank's oreeginal awners, William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton, an aw. Ae o the maist new-fangelt shipbiggin companies in the warld until thay closed up shop in 1963.

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  The A-listit 100m Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank is the centrepiece of the Dumbarton collection
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  Early side-lever ingine designed bi Robert Napier, frae PS Leven (1823), on display at Dumbarton
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  Anither marine ingine at Dumbarton
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  William Froude memorial on the ooter pairt o the biggin
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  The Dumbarton biggin frae the side

Trust structur

The museum is an independent museum operatit by a chairitable trust: the Scottish Maritime Museum Trust (Scots: The Scots Maritime Museum Trust). It stairtit operations in 1983. The first trust chairperson wis Clydeside shipbigger Ross Belchm an he haud on tae the post until 1998. The foondin Director wis Dr Henry C. McMurray.

Faurer Readin

• Douglas McGowan, Clydebuilt: A Photographic Legacy, 2005, Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0-7524-3228-1
• John Shields, Clyde Built: A History of Shipbuilding on the River Clyde, 1949, William MacLellan

Freemit Airtins

• Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine and Dumbarton (in Inglis)
• Scottish Maritime Museum on AboutBritain.com (in Inglis)