Vintage Collection Of Yarrow & Co Related Ship Hull Testing & Designs Ephemera / Photographs
Dated around 1903 - 50's
41 items in total
Yarrow & Co Shipyard, was originally located in London, but to Scotland (Clyde) in 1906.
Fascinating collection of mostly original research photographs related to ship hulls, on the hard and also the testing of model shallow draught ships, which Yarrow developed.
Numerous photograph images of the shallow draught steamer test tank, with the Yarrow Patent hinged flap
Yarrow boiler image.
Paper print image of yacht Titan, built by Yarrow in the 1930s
Various period images of shallow draft ships, such as Adama - Lagos.
Hull image, on the hard, marked to the back, Yarrow & Co, Research Department, 1949, plus other related images.
Numerous photographs with Crown Copyright - National Physical Laboratory, printed to the back and one marked Trans. Inst. Naval Arch, 1903.
HMS Laforey original negative and print. A built by Yarrow in 1939.
Underwater, test tank images of propeller action analysis, with the screw-locked and rotating.
Laforey was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in and served during the Second World War, and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in 1944. She had been adopted by the civil community of Northampton in November 1941.
Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited (YSL), often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipbuilding firm based in the Scotstoun district of Glasgow on the River Clyde. It is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships, owned by BAE Systems, which has also operated the nearby Govan shipyard (formerly Fairfield) since 1999.
The company was founded by Alfred Yarrow, later Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1st Baronet, in the year 1865 as Yarrow & Company, Limited. Originally it was based at Folly Wall, Poplar, then in 1898 as the company grew, Yarrow moved his shipyard to London Yard, Cubitt Town. Hundreds of steam launches, lake and river vessels, and eventually the Royal Navy's first destroyers, the Havock class, were built at Yarrow's London shipyards between 1869 and 1908. Yarrow was also a builder of boilers, and a type of water-tube boiler developed and patented by the company was known as the "Yarrow boiler", first used in a torpedo boat in 1887 and later used for a number of applications, from the propulsion plant of RMS Queen Mary to the LNER Class W1 locomotive. The diversification into boiler manufacturing, including large boilers for electricity generation, meant that the company survived the lean years for shipbuilding. Alfred Yarrow was an inventive naval engineer, and was responsible for several novel introductions into service which led to the development of increasingly fast warships. Ultimately in the Royal Navy and abroad it became known that a "Yarrow ship was a fast ship", with the company building the first naval vessel globally to exceed 30 knots and then, later, 40 knots. Sir Alfred Yarrow was knighted for services to the war effort in 1916. He was a notable benefactor to many charities.
Good condition for age, with some superficial wear and marks.
Nautical box 10