The Titan

Commissioned in 1905 at a cost of £24,600, The Titan stands as a collussus aside modern college buildings and lush green lawns. It's hard to imagine what this place looked like during the heyday of the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank. This picture was taken yards from the slipway from which the world famous Lusitania was launched on 7th June 1906, and the QE2 in 1967.

The Titan may have withstood the Luftwaffe onslaught on Clydebank during the Blitz of 1941, however. market forces were later to wreak far more havoc as shipbuiding on this part of the Clyde eventually died in the 1970s.

A fitting and poignant monument to Glasgow shipbuilding.