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Beardmore had become a major warship builder and naval armaments manufacturer before the war, and the range of weapons and munitions produced at the firm's vast Parkhead Forge expanded rapidly after 1914. Among other things, the company built fifty tanks. The pedrail shoes (the treads) for the tanks were manufactured at Parkhead and the rest of the work was completed at the firm's Dalmuir works.
In 1899 William Beardmore decided to set up
a shipyard in Dalmuir. Work started in 1901
and by the time it was complete in 1906 they
were ready to launch the biggest warship so
far built on the Clyde, the battleship Agamemnon.
After the First World War when orders
for ships declined, Beardmore diversified into
cars, motorbikes, bicycles, locomotives, aeroplanes,
tanks and airships. In the 1920s, Beardmore
went into decline and finally closed in
1935.
Stone carvings commemorating the battleship
Agamemnon can be seen on the tenement
wall on Dumbarton Road at Agamemnon St.
5th Battle Squadron Channel Fleet.
February 1915 transferred to Dardanelles.
19 February 1915 onwards involved in various attacks on forts and support of landings. Hit by artillery on several occasions but no serious damage.
May-June 1915 refit at Malta.
2 December 1915 took part in destruction of Kavak Bridge.
January 1916 Eastern Mediterranean Squadron.
5 May 1917 shot down Zeppelin L85.
30 October 1918 Ottoman Empire signed Armistice on board.
November 1918 led Allied squadron through the Dardanelles to Constantinople.
Sold for scrap 1927.
HollowHorn wrote:
gap74 wrote:I know we've got it in the Dalmuir section of the cinema website, should we more accurately place it here on the Clydebank page?
I know there's often no exact definition, but what would you broadly define Dalmuir as in terms of the area bounded by given streets/rivers/etc?
I've a pic somewhere of the Atlantis that I took the day we did the interior shots of the Clydebank ABC shortly before the bingo shut. Fantastic looking building, looks perhaps about 1950s to me? Anyone know when it was built and if the interior has any interesting period detail?
Josef wrote:Cheers, HH. I've wondered where Agamemnon Street got its name from every time I've been at the Golden Jubilee.
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