Inchgreen drydock in Greenock is still an active site - currently leased to BAE Systems, it was last used to assemble a giant floating dock for Faslane naval base. It also once played host to the Queen Elizabeth liner - it's a pretty big dock :)
The dock has three goose-necked level-luffing cranes - one of them made by Sir William Arrol, so of course that's the one I went for (plus, it's the biggest). This took two trips - first time, with no harness, I wasn't going to attempt to get to the end. Second time, success...
It's a bit of a slog to the end - a hundred steps up to the cab level, then two hundred steps up to the top, then another hundred down to the end of the jib - most of it very exposed with bugger-all to clip in to. Fun, though
The dock has three goose-necked level-luffing cranes - one of them made by Sir William Arrol, so of course that's the one I went for (plus, it's the biggest). This took two trips - first time, with no harness, I wasn't going to attempt to get to the end. Second time, success...










It's a bit of a slog to the end - a hundred steps up to the cab level, then two hundred steps up to the top, then another hundred down to the end of the jib - most of it very exposed with bugger-all to clip in to. Fun, though

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