Launch of the SS Pomaron at Grangemouth Dockyard.

Maker
Unknown
Production date
23 Aug 1907
 Description
View down the empty slipway showing the wooden blocks in the centre on which the ship's keel rested and the boards on either side down which the cradle has slipped. In the water, to the left, is the Pomeron and in the centre is the tug about to tow her to the fitting out basin..
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Production date
23 Aug 1907
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Subject place
Grangemouth Dockyard/Dalgrain Rd/Old Grangemouth/Grangemouth area
Subject notes
The tug will tow the ship (see other photographs of SS Pomeron) to a fitting out basin. SS Pomeron was a steamer of 1809 tons built in 1907 by the Grangemouth Dockyard Co for the Furness Withy Group.
Accession number
P09419

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