In 1982 there was still four operational ship repair yards on the Clyde - one in Govan, two in Greenock and one at Troon. Here we see the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry Claymore undergoing her annual repair and maintenance in the yard, at Greenock's East India Harbour, long operated by James Lamont & Company. Claymore was the third vessel of name to operate on the west coast of Scotland since 1881, having been built in 1978 at the Robb Caledon shipyard at Leith on the Firth of Forth. In her early career she operated normally between Oban and the islands of Barra and South Uist.
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