It all began more than 150 years ago in a small street within sight and sound of the docks ofGreenock. It was there, in a close offCross Shore Streeta narrow lane running down the quayside where lighters loaded their cargo, and steamboats fromGlasgowdisgorged their passengers that William Quarrier was born on 29 September 1829. Greenock, onScotland’s Firth of Clyde, was in 1829 a busy industrial town with an illustrious shipbuilding history. Scott’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock, founded in 1711, was one of the many companies which helped to make Greenock the centre of shipbuilding on theClydeduring the eighteenth century. By the early nineteenth century new shipbuilding centres had developed further up the Clyde, notably at Port Glasgow and Dumbarton, but Greenock was still the chief highway to the Atlantic, and every day great oceangoing liners anchored out at the Tail o’ the Bank. [download]
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