Edit Shipbuilding in Whiteinch

Launch Day for the Malaita at Barclay Curle's Clydeholm Yard in 1933

The industrialisation of Whiteinch resulted substantially as a result of shipbuilding and, perhaps in paricular, the presence of the Clydeholm Shipyard of Barclay Curle

  • Film footage of the handover of SS Nevasa is available from the Scottish Screen Archive - see http://www.scottish-screen.com/film/detail.php?id=50520001
  • Information about Barclay Curle's newbuild "Malaita" (see pictures on this page can be found at http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4072
By Robert Dixon

The Malaita successfully launched in 1933

 
 

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