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Latitude: 55.9432 / 55°56'35"N
Longitude: -4.5629 / 4°33'46"W
OS Eastings: 240037
OS Northings: 675207
OS Grid: NS400752
Mapcode National: GBR 0M.YDXG
Mapcode Global: WH3NJ.WWC7
Plus Code: 9C7QWCVP+7R
Entry Name: Ship Model Experiment Tank, Castle Street, Dumbarton
Listing Name: Castle Street, Ship Model Experiment Tank (British Shipbuilders - Formerly Vickers Ltd)
Listing Date: 21 October 1976
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360980
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24873
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumbarton, Castle Street, Ship Model Experiment Tank
The Denny Tank
ID on this website: 200360980
Location: Dumbarton
County: West Dunbartonshire
Town: Dumbarton
Electoral Ward: Dumbarton
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Laboratory
1882-3. E R Mumford, Superintendent of the works (Mumford,
together with William Froude, naval architect (d. 1879), had
previously established a tank at Torquay). Professor J
McQuorn Rankine, engineer. Narrow ashlar frontage, wide
segmental-arched doorway to right, window in corresponding
panel to left; plain pilasters, cornice, parapet swept up in
centre containing carved panel of William Froude.
Long narrow workshop containing testing-tank runs to south.
Walls mostly brick with buttresses and round brace-plates,
earth embankments.
Slate roof with skylights and wooden sarking not original.
Original triangular steel trusses inside. Long narrow
brick-lined tank, faced with cement plaster, runs the full
length of shed. Double teak walkways supported by girders in
side walls and with double tracks for sliding platforms.
Brick extension at south end dates from 1920s and contains a
wavemaker. Modern 3-storey office extension on east side not
included in listing.
Built for Denny's of Dumbarton. Panel on street frontage is
inscribed "Leven Ship Yard Experimental Tank"
The first privately owned experimental tank built in the
world, and said to now be the oldest still in existence.
Modified following a fire in 1924, when deep section was
extended by 50 feet, and walkway suspension was improved.
Dean of Guild plans of alterations passed 4.6.1903.
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