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Pages in category "Ships built in Leith" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Unable to afford the installation of a dry dock in his Leith shipyards, Morton "resorted to the process of hauling up [ships] on greased ways". [2] As this method was both dangerous and time-consuming, in 1818 he invented and installed the first patent slip; a slipway with cradle to haul ships out of the water
The company was founded on 1 April 1918 by Henry Robb, a former yard manager for Ramage & Ferguson shipbuilders, which lay around 1 km to the east. [1] Robb was born in Partick, Glasgow in 1874 to Henry Robb (1843-1894), a ships caulker, and his wife Martha Simpson (1840–78).
Abortive attempts were made to revive racing in Leith in 1839 and 1840 [7] and even into the 1850s Leith Races were still remembered with affection by elderly residents of Edinburgh. [ 2 ] The gold teapot awarded as the King's prize at Leith is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland , [ 13 ] and was the subject of a poem in the ...
The North Carolina State Fair is an American state fair and agricultural exposition held annually in Raleigh, North Carolina. [3] Founded in 1853, the fair is organized by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. [4] [5] It attracts around a million visitors over eleven days in mid-October. [3] [6]
The landowner, Julian S. Carr, raced horses, and built a half mile horse racing track on the site. [3] Bill France noticed the horse racing track and expanse of open land while piloting his airplane. [3] On the site of the earlier horse track, he built a 0.9-mile dirt track in September 1947, two months before NASCAR was organized.
SS Sirius was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship built in 1837 by Robert Menzies & Sons of Leith, Scotland for the London-Cork route operated by the Saint George Steam Packet Company. [1] [2] The next year, she opened transatlantic steam passenger service when she was chartered for two voyages by the British and American Steam Navigation ...
British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. [4] In the late 1820s, Forth , master, sailed between Great Britain and Mauritius . On her first convict voyage , under the command of J. Robertson and surgeon J. Cook, she sailed from Cork , Ireland on 3 June 1830, and arrived at Port Jackson on 12 ...