The last Tay launch

[jock]

I know the last ship launched @ the Robb Caledon yard in Dundee went down the slipway in 1981, but despite an extensive search I can't find out her name, can anyone help?

[Phil English]

According to the records I have Robb Caledon's last three vessels were delivered in 1983:

A.H. Paraggi 6/83
St. Catherine 6/83
St. Helen 11/83

Brgds
Phil

[jock]

Thanks \Phil, however I wonder if those vessels you list may have come from Robb's Edinburgh (Leith) yard which shut 2 years after the Tay yard in 1983. Do you know which yard those ships came from?

Attached are 2 photos showing the remains of the Robb Caledon yard in Dundee taken today, 31 years after the yards last launch.

[Phil English]

Yes- Those vessels were built at Leith.

Sadly, the database I am using doesn't recognise the Dundee yard building any merchant ships post-1978. However, naval or fishing ships might have been built later, but we do not record those.

Brgds
Phil

[jock]

Thanks for looking. Its my understanding the Dundee yard built coasters, small cargo ships and dredgers upto its demise. I'll keep looking

[jock]

thanks

[BobS]

The last ships built at the British Shipbuilders-operated, Robb Caledon yard at Dundee were the bulkers BYTOM and KOSCIERZYNA (Yard nos 576 and 577) for Polska Zegluga Morska

[jock]

Many Thanks Bob