![]() Goliath being completed in 1969 and Samson, in 1974. Owing to its great size the rig occupied three slips of the Musgrave yard. The entire structure was 320 feet (98 m) high and weighed 150,000 tons, including three legs each 35 feet (11 m) in diameter and 160 feet (49 m) long. The first structure of this nature and size in the world to enter the water in one peice.īuilt for BP at a cost of 3.5 million pounds and launched on 8 January 1966. The largest oil rig launched in in the UK. To reduce topside weight, her superstructure was made from 1000 tons of aluminium which also improved stability and permitted a greater volume of public rooms to be available 'up top'. She adopted a new turbo-electric propulsion system with distinctive Twin funnels. Delivered in 1961, was the largest passenger liner to be built in the UK since the Queen Elizabeth. ![]() 1621 she was launched by Dame Pattie Menzies. ![]() Now part of the Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast is the first warship since HMS Victory to be preserved for the nation. The cruiser HMS Belfast is Europe's largest surviving Second World War warship, now permanently moored in the River Thames, close to London Bridge. 1000 she was launched March 1938 by Mrs Neville Chamberlain On 3rd April 1912 the largest ship in the world was handed over and on 10th April she commenced her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with calls at Cherbourg and Queenstown(Cobh). Titanicīuilt in 1912 with a tonnage of 46329grt, a length of 883ft, a beam of 92ft 6in and a service speed of 21 knots. In July 1894 she was wrecked on the coast of Chile after sailing from Valparaiso. Powered by a 2 cylinder engine she also had a lifting steel screw so that she could use her sails to the best advantage. The first ship to be built at the yard, she was launched on 30th July 1859 and delivered to J.
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