what you mean Gingyer.....my daughter is seeking a sponsored cadet ship with Calmac, studying at Fleetwood nautical college...............we think they are wonderful.
and thanks for posting the pics david....
we tried getting into CL to take pictures but they flatly refused because of the MOD connections, leaving my daughter very sad and frustrated.........these pics have made up for that........she worships the ground ( or sea) that Calmac work on.
neil.
Ha ha. Back in the 90s before health & safty went big buisness, I once got into Cammell Laird for a 'photo session'. I just picked up the phone book and rang, I think the personel officer and the security guard on the gate were the only guys left. The yard was defunct of ship-building, they had the start of the ship-repairers in bits of it, and British Nuclear Fuels were in another part building a top-secret 'x' in another building (ask me how I know this and that photographs of this 'x' were verboten?)
'blinking!' interesting afternoon. All the wooden forms & patterns used for the Type 2400 were left propped against a wall. Those for the diving-planes and bits of the stern were the noticable bits I could make out . It looked like they'd launched the last boat and took the tools and hardware and went, the wooden slipway was just left as-is full of gease.
And that big hall, where they let Branson pump his balloons up, huge!!!
Still, nothing as depressing as a deserted shipyard with the men sat at home.