Shipbuilding
Was your forebear one of the skilled workers in this key industry?
During the 19th century the likes of Denny’s Shipyard in Dumbarton, John Brown’s Shipyard at Clydebank and Glasgow’s Govan Graving Docks made Strathclyde a global centre of shipbuilding. Denny’s Shipyard alone built more than 1,500 ships between 1844 and 1963, not least the first steamship to cross the Channel which managed the feat in 1814. This online guide from the National Records of Scotland has good advice about researching relations who worked in the industry: bit.ly/nrs-shipbuilding.