SS Kinneil loaded with timber at Bo'ness Docks

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1910
 Description
SS Kinneil has a single funnel and bridge amidships, a foremast and mainmast from which flies a company flag showing 'L & S' (Love & Stewart). The ship is laden with timber stacked high above the hull both forward and aft of the bridge.
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Maker
Production date
Circa 1910
Subject person
Subject place
Bo'ness Docks/Bo'ness town centre/Bo'ness area
Subject notes
When long wall coal mining replaced the stoop and room method, the roof was kept up by timbers rather than columns of coal. George Stewart, a Bo'ness cashier, saw the efficiency of importing ready cut timber in various sizes. Soon Bo'ness was nicknamed 'Proptown' and smelt of resin. George Stewart went into partnership with a Glasgow businessman, James Love. So successful was the pit-prop business that Love & Stewart set up its own shipping company to import the timber from Russia and Scandinavia and to export coal.
Accession number
P13711

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