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83 relations: Academy Awards, Apprenticeship, Battlecruiser, Bessemer process, Birmingham, Blockade runners of the American Civil War, Bouygues, Break-even, Buffer (rail transport), Cessnock, Glasgow, Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, Clydebank, Clydebank Blitz, Clydebank College, Confederate States of America, Coventry Ordnance Works, CSS Robert E. Lee, Cunard Line, Dalmuir, Draper, Dubai, East Kilbride, Firth Brown Steels, Gas turbine, George Thomson (shipbuilder), Govan, Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, Iron, Iron ore, Ironclad warship, Jackup rig, John Brown (industrialist), John Devonshire Ellis, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Kværner, List of ships built by John Brown & Company, Luftwaffe, Marathon Oil, Marine propulsion, Markham & Co., Merchant vessel, Modular design, Naval architecture, Naval ship, North Sea oil, Oil platform, Pacific Quay, Passenger car (rail), ..., Pipeline transport, Public company, Queen Elizabeth 2, River Cart, River Clyde, Robert Napier (engineer), Rolling (metalworking), Royal Navy, Scottish Enterprise, Seawards the Great Ships, Semi-submersible, Sheffield, Shipbuilding, Shipyard Sally, Sir William Arrol & Co., Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, Steam turbine, Steel, Submarine, Subsidiary, The Independent, The New York Times, Titan Clydebank, Track (rail transport), Trafalgar House (company), Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, USS Atlanta (1861), Vehicle armour, West Dunbartonshire, William Bragge, William Henry Ellis (engineer), Yarrow Shipbuilders, Yukos. Expand index (33 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Apprenticeship
An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).
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Battlecruiser
The battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.
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Bessemer process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Blockade runners of the American Civil War
The blockade runners of the American Civil War were seagoing steam ships that were used to make their way through the Union blockade that extended some along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and the lower Mississippi River.
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Bouygues
Bouygues S.A. is an industrial group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Break-even
Break-even (or break even), often abbreviated as B/E in finance, is the point of balance making neither a profit nor a loss.
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Buffer (rail transport)
A buffer is a part of the buffers-and-chain coupling system used on the railway systems of many countries, among them most of those in Europe, for attaching railway vehicles to one another.
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Cessnock, Glasgow
Cessnock is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, (12 May 1850 – 23 January 1934), known as Sir Charles McLaren, 1st Baronet, between 1902 and 1911, was a Scottish jurist and Liberal Party politician.
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Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway
Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, (16 April 1913 – 4 February 2003) was a British industrialist and horticulturalist.
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Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
CB&I is a large engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company with its administrative headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas. CB&I specialized in projects for oil and gas companies. According to one of the founder's heirs, "The old joke is that Chicago Bridge & Iron isn't in Chicago, doesn't build bridges and doesn't use iron." CB&I employed more than 32,000 people worldwide. In May 2018 the company merged into McDermott International.
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Clydebank
Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Clydebank Blitz
The Clydebank Blitz comprised two devastating Luftwaffe air raids on the shipbuilding town of Clydebank in Scotland which took place in March 1941.
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Clydebank College
Clydebank College was a further education college in Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.
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Coventry Ordnance Works
Coventry Ordnance Works was a British manufacturer of heavy guns particularly naval artillery jointly owned by Cammell Laird & Co of Sheffield and Birkenhead, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Glasgow and John Brown & Company of Clydebank and Sheffield.
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CSS Robert E. Lee
CSS Robert E. Lee was a blockade runner for the Confederate States during the American Civil War that later served in the United States Navy as USS Fort Donelson and in the Chilean Navy as Concepción.
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Cunard Line
Cunard Line is a British-American cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.
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Dalmuir
Dalmuir (Dail Mhoire) is an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Draper
Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing.
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Dubai
Dubai (دبي) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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East Kilbride
East Kilbride (Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the 6th largest settlement in Scotland.
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Firth Brown Steels
Firth Brown Steels was initially formed in 1902, when Sheffield steelmakers John Brown & Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons.
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Gas turbine
A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous combustion, internal combustion engine.
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George Thomson (shipbuilder)
George Thomson (25 March 1815 – 29 June 1866) was a Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder, born at Partick, Glasgow.
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Govan
Govan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway
Henry Duncan McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, CBE (16 April 1879 – 23 May 1953) was a British politician, horticulturalist and industrialist.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.
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Jackup rig
A jackup rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea.
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John Brown (industrialist)
Sir John Brown (6 December 1816 – 27 December 1896), British industrialist, was born in Sheffield.
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John Devonshire Ellis
John Devonshire Ellis (20 April 1824 – 11 November 1906) was a steelmaker in Sheffield, England.
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Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
The Journal of Scottish Historical Studies is a bi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland in May and November of each year.
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Kværner
Kværner was a Norwegian engineering and construction services company that existed between 1853 and 2005.
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List of ships built by John Brown & Company
This is a list of ships built by John Brown & Company at their shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
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Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in the Marathon Oil Tower in Houston, Texas.
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Marine propulsion
Marine propulsion is the mechanism or system used to generate thrust to move a ship or boat across water.
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Markham & Co.
Markham & Co. was an ironworks and steelworks company near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.
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Merchant vessel
A merchant vessel, trading vessel or merchantman is a boat or ship that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.
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Modular design
Modular design, or "modularity in design", is a design approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules or skids, that can be independently created and then used in different systems.
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Naval architecture
Naval architecture, or naval engineering, along with automotive engineering and aerospace engineering, is an engineering discipline branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures.
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Naval ship
A naval ship is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy.
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North Sea oil
North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid petroleum and natural gas, produced from petroleum reservoirs beneath the North Sea.
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Oil platform
An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed.
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Pacific Quay
Pacific Quay is an area south of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Passenger car (rail)
A passenger car (known as a coach or carriage in the UK, and also known as a bogie in India) is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers.
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Pipeline transport
Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.
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Public company
A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.
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Queen Elizabeth 2
The Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as QE2, is a floating hotel and retired ocean liner built for the Cunard Line which was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008.
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River Cart
The River Cart (Cart) is a tributary of the River Clyde, Scotland, which it joins from the west roughly midway between the towns of Erskine and Renfrew and opposite the town of Clydebank.
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River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.
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Robert Napier (engineer)
Robert Napier (21 June 1791 – 23 June 1876) was a Scottish marine engineer known for his contributions to Clyde Shipbuilding.
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Rolling (metalworking)
In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise is a sponsored non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government which encourages economic development, enterprise, innovation and investment in business.
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Seawards the Great Ships
Seawards the Great Ships is a 1961 British short documentary film directed by Hilary Harris.
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Semi-submersible
Semi-submersible may refer to a self-propelled vessel, such as.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.
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Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
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Shipyard Sally
Shipyard Sally is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden.
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Sir William Arrol & Co.
Sir William Arrol & Co. was a leading Scottish civil engineering and construction business founded by William Arrol and based in Glasgow.
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Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval
From 1909 until the Spanish Civil War, naval construction in Spain was monopolized by the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval - (SECN) also Spanish Society for Naval Construction (SECN).
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Submarine
A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Titan Clydebank
Titan Clydebank is a cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Track (rail transport)
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
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Trafalgar House (company)
Trafalgar House Public Limited Company was a British conglomerate with interests in property investment, property development, engineering, construction, shipping, hotels, energy and publishing.
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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde.
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USS Atlanta (1861)
Atlanta was a casemate ironclad that served in the Confederate and Union Navies during the American Civil War.
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Vehicle armour
Military vehicles are commonly armoured (or armored; see spelling differences) to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets, missiles or shells, protecting the personnel inside from enemy fire.
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West Dunbartonshire
West Dunbartonshire (Wast Dunbartanshire; Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland.
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William Bragge
William Bragge, F.S.A., F.G.S., (31 May 1823 – 6 June 1884)Stephen 1886:194 was an English civil engineer, antiquarian and author.
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William Henry Ellis (engineer)
Sir William Henry Ellis, GBE (20 August 1860 – 4 July 1945) was a British civil engineer and steel maker.
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Yarrow Shipbuilders
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.
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Yukos
OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (ОАО Нефтяна́я Компа́ния Ю́КОС) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia.
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