I am new to the Caird Library team, with responsibility for the journal collection, which comprises in excess of 1200 titles, including 125 current subscriptions. The latest editions are on access, displayed in the Reading Room.
In order to help readers access the contents of our more specialist journals, we are embarking on a new indexing project. Taking The Shipbuilder as our starting point and using our force of talented volunteers, we plan to index all photographs published within this publication between 1906 and 1964.
Introducing the first issue, editor A. G. Hood outlines the ambitious aims of The Shipbuilder: to cover “any and every question affecting the army of workers employed in the production of anything intended to float, from the mighty battleship to the slim destroyer, and from the great ocean liner to the humble ‘tramp’ steamer .” (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1906, p. 3).
In fact, the magazine does include an extraordinary breadth of subject matter; pictures include many of the great liners and battleships, floating coal depots and cranes, and the far humbler petrol motor torpedo boat.
Highland Monarch, 1929
On a more personal note, using Ancestry (free access available in the library), I successfully traced the ship on which my family returned to Britain at the end of the war, (after being interned in China). Named the Highland Chieftain, The Shipbuilder has a picture of her near-identical sister ship - the Highland Monarch. (Vol. 36, No 221, January 1929, p.109).
Jean
