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William Denny and Brothers 
Former type Private Industry Shipbuilding Fate Liquidation Founded 1840 Defunct 1963 Headquarters Dumbarton, UK William Denny and Brothers Limited, and often referred to simply as Denny, were a Scottish shipbuilding company.
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History
TS King Edward (1901) on sea trial
Type 41 frigate HMS Jaguar (1957)The Company was founded by Peter Denny in 1840 and based in Dumbarton, on the River Clyde. Although the Denny yard was situated near the junction of the River Clyde and the River Leven, the yard was on the Leven.[1] The founder developed the company's interests in ship owning and operation with interests in the British & Burmese Steam Navigation Company, the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and La Platense Flotilla.[2]
The Company built all types of ships but were particularly well known as producers of fine cross-channel steamships and ferries. It was a pioneer in the development of the ship's stabiliser in conjunction with Edinburgh-based Brown Brothers & Company. In 1913 the Channel steamer Paris was one of the first ships to use geared turbine engines utilising new Michell tilting-pad fluid bearing.[3] It also undertook experimental work in hovercraft and helicopter-type aircraft.
A subsidiary company, Denny & Company, also based in Dumbarton, manufactured a wide range of types of steam and diesel marine engines.
Dennys were always innovators and were one of the first commercial shipyards in the world to have their own experimental testing tank: this is now open to the public as a museum.[4] William Denny & Company went into voluntary liquidation in 1963.[4]
Denny-built vessels
Main article: List of ships built by William Denny and BrothersSome Denny-built vessels remain in existence, including:
- Cutty Sark (1869); completed by Denny's after the liquidation of her contracted builders, Scott & Linton; preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London
- SS Coya (1892); a Lake Titicaca steamer and now a floating restaurant
- SS Sir Walter Scott (1900); excursion steamer on Loch Katrine, Scotland
- TS King Edward (1901); excursion steamer and the first commercial vessel powered by steam turbines
- Delta Queen (1924–26),[5] currently an hotel at Chattanooga, Tennessee
- TS Queen Mary (1933); formerly a Clyde turbine steamer, now a floating restaurant, previously in London
- PS Ryde (1937); built for the Southern Railway, and the World's last coal-fired sea-going paddle steamer when withdrawn from service in 1969.[6]
- MV The Second Snark (1938); a former Denny-owned tug and tender on the Clyde
- MV Lymington (1938), an Isle of Wight ferry that in 1974 became the Clyde ferry MV Sound of Sanda
- MV Royal Iris (1950); a former Mersey ferry berthed at Woolwich, London
- HMS Jaguar (F37) (1957); Leopard class frigate, now BNS Ali Haider in Bangladesh Navy
- Denny D2 Hoverbus; an early attempt to build a hovercraft for use as a passenger vehicle
Company flag
A white flag, with a blue elephant. The flag was unusual in having for its emblem an elephant. This image was taken from the civic arms of Dumbarton, and it also served to symbolise the strength and solidity of the company's products.
See also
References
- ^ "The Leven-built CUTTY SARK". Shipping & Shipbuilding News, Ayr. 22 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20071009043505/http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item624_leven.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ D Dowson; C M Taylor; M Godet; D Berthe (1987). fluid film lubrication - Osborn Reynolds centennary: proceedings of the 13th Leeds-Lyon symposium on Tribology. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 51. ISBN 0444428569.
- ^ a b "Dumbarton - Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank". Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine. http://billward.eu/pages_denny/default.html.
- ^ "Campaign to save paddle steamer", BBC News Scotland, 19 September 2007
- ^ Clydebuilt Ships Database - ships and shipbuilders on the River Clyde Clydebuilt Ships Database
External links
- Clyde built ships data base - lists all ships built on the Clyde
- PS Princess May
- SS Taroba
- Delta Queen steamboat
- SS Mayaro
- Denny of Dumbarton
- Scotland on film clip Denny's. (BBC)
- History of Denny's Shipyard - Clyde Waterfront Heritage
Shipyards of the ClydeModern timeline of British shipbuilding companies, 1960-presentCategories:- British Shipbuilders Corporation
- Companies established in 1840
- Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United Kingdom
- Organisations based in West Dunbartonshire
- Shipbuilding companies of Scotland
- Companies disestablished in 1963
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