Old Photograph Steamboat Crinan Canal Scotland

Old photograph of a steamboat on the Crinan Canal, Argyll, Scotland. The canal was built to provide a short cut for commercial sailing and fishing vessels and later Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialised region around Glasgow to the West Highland villages and islands. It was designed by civil engineer John Rennie and work started in 1794, but was not completed until 1801, two years later than planned. Queen Victoria travelled along the canal to Crinan during a holiday in the Scottish Highlands in 1847.



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