Collection of photographs of Clyde vessels taken from negatives belonging to Graham Langmuir, solicitor and steamer enthusiast, Glasgow, Scotland

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Photographs of vessels, groups of passengers, ship yards and harbours, 20th century

Photographs of vessels include ships built by the following Scottish ship yards:

Scott & Sons (Bowling) Ltd , Bowling, West Dunbartonshire
James & George Thomson Ltd , Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire
Wood & Reid , Port Glasgow, Inverclyde
Robertson & Co , London
Caird & Co Ltd , Greenock, Inverclyde
John Reid & Co ; Blackwood & Gordon
T Wingate & Co , Glasgow
H McIntyre & Co , Paisley, Renfrewshire, and Alloa, Clackmannanshire
Robert Duncan & Co , Port Glasgow, Inverclyde
A & J Inglis , Glasgow

Administrative / Biographical History

Graham Langmuir was born in 1910 in the Titwood parish of Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the University of Glasgow graduating MA in 1929 . He went on to study Law at the University, graduating LLB in 1933 . Graham Langmuir practised as a solicitor in Bearsden, Glasgow, but his passion was steamers and he wrote four books with GC Duckworth on this subject: Clyde River and Other Steamers , Clyde and Other Coastal Steamers , Railway and Other Steamers , and West Coast Steamers . He died c1994.