Date: 26/05/2023

A £1m contract to repair the 90-year-old TSS Queen Mary has been awarded to Marine Projects Scotland. On Friday, the vessel was moved from its current berth at Glasgow Science Centre to Govan Graving Docks “ the first to be berthed at the facility in almost 40 years.

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Restoration work on historic Clyde steamer set to begin

STV

A £1m contract to repair the 90-year-old TS Queen Mary has been awarded to Marine Projects Scotland.

Work to begin on TS Queen Mary steamer restoration

BBC News

TS Queen Mary moves to the Govan Graving Docks after a £1m contract is awarded to revive the ship.

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TS Queen Mary II at Dunoon in September 1955.
Location: Dunoon Pier
Company: Piers on the Firth of Clyde
25/09/1955 A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Queen Mary (II) back in Glasgow. Compare and contrast with the image from 1963 at Rothesay see image [[55116]]. She's just a shell. (I have made the funnels buff, their true colour -  when I took this they were yellow which is quite wrong.)
Location: Princes Dock
Company: Princes Dock Joint Railway (Caledonian Railway, North British Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway)
28/06/2017 Colin Miller

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