Scottish Maritime Museum
With the newly refurbished Denny Tank Museum in Dumbarton it has become a popular
place of interest to passing tourists. Discover the worlds first commercial ship model experiment tank, the length of a football pitch, you can see the ship model carriage running.
Experience the working environment of the model makers, clay moulders
and carpenters in 1882 and try your hand at smoothing and carving a real wax hull model.
Why not test different hull designs in our own mini experiment tank...and enter the world of the Victorian ship designer as in William Denny's drawing office, while finding out how to design your own ship.
Come and Join us on a guided tour of the building and learn about the Denny Brothers, builders of the famous Cutty Sark and inventors of the Denny helicopter, Denny hovercraft
and Denny-Brown stabilisers.
website: Scottish Maritime Museum
