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Issue 16 – Winter 2013 A partnership to care for the Clyde: its environment, its people and its visitors Winter 2013/14 Issue 16 This Issue: Historical Aspects of the Clyde • Wreck of the Iona I • The Fife Regatta • SCH@RP reveal archaeological clues to the past • Denny Tank • The changing shape of commerce on the Clyde Firth of Clyde Forum Forum Focus Contents News Welcome to the winter 2013/14 edition of Clyde Breakers! Firth of Clyde Forum Projects The Clyde Forum is responsible for implementing actions from the Firth of Clyde Marine Spatial Plan which was This edition focuses on historical published in 2010. We are also keen to provide research for a sound evidence base and reference documents for any aspects of the Firth of Clyde, looking at future regional marine plan and to support coastal planning within Local Authorities. As such various projects have Forum Focus been agreed by the Core Group and supported by funding partners. how people are involved in protecting, restoring, remembering and celebrating • Marine Biosecurity Planning our heritage and historical relationship UPDATE: Marine biosecurity planning - best practice guide with the Clyde. As part of our ongoing commitment departments, developers, site managers • Sea Level Rise and Storm Surges to tackling the issue of marine and other small scale interests. In terms of Forum work over the last Invasive Non-Native Species, So far the team has completed a 9 months, as for everyone with an the Firth of Clyde Forum has thorough survey of available data and commissioned SAMS Research interest in marine affairs, the Forum has reports on the subject and have compiled Services Ltd (SRSL) and Robin a literature review which will feed directly been involved in responding to Scottish Payne to create a best practice into the final guide. guide to writing marine biosecurity The guide will include relevant case Government consultations. We have plans in response to the publication studies, separate boxes containing of the revised Wildlife and Natural Historical Issues Focus responded to ‘Planning Scotland’s Seas’ explanations of technical issues and a Environment (Scotland) Act. and the ‘National Marine Plan’ – please glossary to help the non-expert user The finished product will give practical work through the guidance step by step. see our website for details. advice about developing site based The work is funded by The Firth of Clyde biosecurity plans and provide a step Forum, Scottish Natural Heritage and • 4 The Scottish Maritime Museums – Various projects have also moved along by step guide which will demystify the Natural Resources Wales and the steering The Denny Tank non-native species terminology and walk apace and an update on these is provided group includes the project funders as people through the process of doing risk well as the Scottish Government, SEPA, on the opposite page. Leathery sea squirt, a non-native species assessment, helping to set priorities for Natural England, Cefas, Defra and Marine • 6 The Wreck of the Blockade Runner already present in the Firth of Clyde action. The aim is to create a user friendly, Welcome back to Fiona Mills who has Scotland. Iona I © Chris Woods/MCS non-specialist guide for use by planning returned from maternity leave and thanks • 8 SCH@RP – Archaeological clues to go to Sarah for covering by working full- the Clyde’s busy past time over the past year. Sarah and Fiona are once again sharing the project work Sea level rise and • 10 The Fife Regatta 0 of the Forum. storm surges Many people were shocked by the amount of havoc caused along the • 12 Peel Ports Clydeport – commerce on coast when high tide coincided with Best wishes, the Clyde storm surges around the UK this Isabel Glasgow winter. Firth of Clyde Forum Chair Future climate change is anticipated to • 4 Source to Sea cause sea level rise which could make this Fiona Mills and Sarah Brown type of event even more problematic. This Project Managers study will provide an evidence base of the known extent and associated risks of sea level rise and storm surges in the Firth of Clyde for habitats and communities. • 16 Seascape Assessment It will be used to inform development planning and strategies along the coastal strip of the Clyde. As well as a written Stormy seas © Lorne Gill/SNH report there will be maps to show where vulnerable areas are situated around the sea level in order to protect natural and SEASCAPE/LANDSCAPE coastline. The case study section of the structural assets. ASSESSMENT report will also analyse a section of the This project is funded by Scottish Natural This project has already been completed inner Clyde estuary from Dumbarton Heritage, Peelports-Clydeport, Glasgow in 0 and is available on the website at to Erskine Bridge on both the north & the Clyde Valley Strategic Development http://www.clydeforum.com/index.php/ Front cover photograph: Schooner Wreck at Newshot Creek, © Steve Liscoe and south side of the river. It will look Planning Authority, Loch Lomond & The projects/seascape-landscape-assessment. at potential defence and managed Trossachs National Park and the Firth of See back page for full article. Printed on recycled paper realignment options to adapt to a rising Clyde Forum. Historical Issues Focus railway companies and the independence The Scottish of India and Burma meant the loss Maritime Museums of several loyal customers. Shipping companies were asking for larger cargo – The Denny Tank vessels and William Denny & Brothers could not compete. In the late 90s the yard was modernised, but the company The Denny Ship Model Experiment went into voluntary liquidation before the Tank was the world’s first costs of this could be recovered. commercial example of a test tank and was the starting point for The liquidation and closure happened many of William Denny & Brothers because the company was receiving great innovations. The idea of a fewer and fewer orders. In fact its last tank was first developed by William ship was built ‘on spec’, which meant that Froude who built a test tank for there was no intended buyer. This ship the Admiralty in Torquay in 1871. was Melbrook and after closure it was William Denny was impressed completed by Alexander Stephen & Sons. with this scientific technique and The next 0 years saw dramatic persuaded the firm’s partners to changes on the Clyde as almost all the construct a tank in which they could shipbuilding firms closed. The impact conduct their own experiments. of William Denny & Brothers’ closure The Tank was completed in 88 and on Dumbarton was dramatic and local was designed to test scale models to newspapers reported that the town determine the most efficient hull shape looked “blitzed” once the shipyard and power requirement for any particular was cleared. Commerce and leisure Children at claybeds preparing the mould for wax. vessel. These small-scale tests were has stepped in to fill the gap, and a All images courtesy of Scottish Maritime Museum. used to predict the behaviour of full- supermarket and football pitch now sized hulls. Throughout its working life stand on the land once occupied by the the Tank tested models of a variety of heavy seas. It works by using two fins of slow moving, high-pressure air ejected Leven Shipyard. The Denny Tank is the vessels and explored various propulsion which move up and down like the flaps downwards. last remaining part of this and stands methods, including propellers, paddles and of an aircraft wing to counteract the After a series of tests on models in the as a monument to a company which vane wheels. Experiments were carried effect of waves on the hull. The fins are Experiment Tank, a prototype made from made a huge contribution to shipbuilding out on models of the Denny-Brown controlled by a gyroscope and are housed plywood and sheet metal was built at technology. stabilisers and the hovercraft to gauge within the hull when not in use. Dumbarton. This vessel, known as D, Today, with the support of the Scottish their feasibility. The first ship to be fitted with Denny- managed a speed of over 8 knots during Government and West Dunbartonshire Today the Denny Ship Model experiment Brown stabilisers was the passenger trials on Gareloch on June nd 96. Council the Scottish Maritime Museum Tank, a grade A listed building, is all that ferry Isle of Sark in 98, and they were The company launched a full-sized continues to maintain and develop The is left of William Denny & Brothers but it soon fitted to naval and merchant ships passenger carrying version, D-00, and Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank to is now a superb and unique star visitor world-wide. In 9 stabilisers were in 96 this sidewall ‘hoverbus’ made the ensure that future generations will be attraction. Retaining all of the original fitted to Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, but 80 mile journey from Dumbarton to the aware of the major role that William features including the tank and carriage, not to Queen Mary because the owners River Thames where it was demonstrated. Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton and the the clay beds and Tracers office, as well thought she was too old. The result was This was not a great success as floating Clyde played in the history of shipbuilding as a host of displays that have been that people were reluctant to travel on debris damaged the vessel’s skirts and worldwide. sympathetically incorporated allowing Queen Mary because of her instability, so propellers, although it did show some visitors to enjoy an immersive experience she too was fitted with stabilisers in 98. promise. Article courtesy of David Mann, Scottish into one of Scotland’s most innovative Stability was very important at this time This was one of the firm’s last major Maritime Museums shipyards.
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