THIS image dates to 1961 when the Scotts’ Shipbuilding & Engineering Company celebrated its 250th anniversary.

The large cargo vessel in the fitting-out basin is the Deido, built for Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool and launched in February, 1961.

She served with Elder Dempster until 1979 then had several owners. In the closing months of 1980 the ship arrived at Aliaga in Turkey to be broken up.

The coaster shown, the Ardglen, was one of three ships with the ‘Ard’ name built at James Lamont’s Port Glasgow yard for the Greenock firm of Peter McCallum & Sons, shipowners and steel stockholders.

She was launched in 1952 and passed to new owners in 1972. The Ardglen was scrapped in 1982 at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.

It is not known why the Ardglen was in the Scotts’ fitting-out basin.

One of the other ‘Ard’ ships, the Ardgarry, sank off the Lizard, Cornwall, during a fierce storm in December, 1962. All 12 crew members, including two from Greenock, perished without trace.

The wreck of the Ardgarry, which was launched in 1957, was not discovered until 2006. She had left Swansea with a cargo of coal for Rouen, France.

Scotts’ built many naval craft and the submarine pictured is believed to be HMS Walrus or HMS Otter.