McTear's
Lot 899
GLASGOW SHIPPING INTEREST: TWO SIGNED AUTOGRAPH BOOKS FOR SHIP LAUNCHES made for The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, bound in milled black leather with gilt embossed crest and title, handwritten titles to each launch page with signatures below, circa 1955-1992, including the launches of SS Empress of Britain, SS Free State, Visit of Members of Imperial Defence College, MV Lancashire, Visit of Belgian Trade Mission to Glasgow by HRH Prince Albert, Misson of China Ocean Shipping Co, MV Eastern City, launch of both MV Pacific Patriot and MV Norsea by HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and many others, one book with only one signed page, each 32.5cm high; together with two studio ceramic bowls made by 'T + S Harlander, Canada' to commemerate the lauch of 'Selkirk Settler' and Canada Marquis' in April 1983, each 18.5cm in diameter (4) Note: The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War. It also built many transatlantic liners, including record breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific, such as the Blue Riband winning sisters RMS Campania and RMS Lucania. At the other end of the scale Fairfields built fast cross channel mail steamers and ferries for locations around the world. These included ships for the Bosphorus crossing in Istanbul and some of the early ships used by Thomas Cook for developing tourism on the River Nile.
