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PU HE gone to the breakers...
It seems like only yesterday she was launched at Govan Shipbuilders on the River Clyde, but is a wake-up call that pretty soon many more of the last era of commercial shipbuilding on the Upper Clyde will remind us, sadly, of just how much shipbuilding work flourished at this yard until relatively recently.
The Shanghai-registered PU HE, a 35,693 grt container ship, launched at the Glasgow shipyard on Friday the 9th of June 1989 has sailed off into the archives being sold for demolition to Chinese breakers.
The ship, massive for her time, seemed to promise a future for Govan, just as the shipyard was taken over by Kvaerner who in turn turned the yard into a specialist builder of gas carrying ships.
As has been noted before on this site, the Nineties were the last glory days of commercial shipbuilding on the famous river.
(Photo: Colin Campbell Clydesite Source
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