One of the mainstays of the great yards of the Clyde was the warship. Based on systematic research in the records of the yards involved, this is the first book to study the full impact of the growth, development and decline of the Royal Navy on the Clyde, its yards, and the people who lived on it. From the early days of 1859 and the Black Prince, to many of the pre-Dreadnought classes of battleship; from powerful superdreadnoughts of the Queen Elizabeth class to the ship many consider the apogee of British shipbuilding - the mighty Hood - the Clyde lay at the heart of British supremacy at sea.
This is not simply the story of the rise and fall of the Clyde, but of the rise and fall of British sea power and industrial might seen through the story of the great river which lay at its heart.
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