A riveting squad at work at John Brown's shipyard, Glasgow in 1949.

[george2576]

I am looking for information or anyone that helped build hull 723 at John browns yard in 1962-64 the hull was a fearless class LPD that went on to be HMS Intrepid. please see our site at hmsintrepid.co.uk...

[richardkelltoolmaker]

If there was sound it would be deafening?

[richardkelltoolmaker]

I read somewhere you caught the red hot rivet in yer flat cap!! ... perhaps an unreliable source. That rivet forge is exactly what I have in my workshop to perform simple heat treatment, I have firebricks set up and use a gas blowlamp rather than coke. Its ex-shipyards off the Tyne.

[MrCharcharchar]

be quicker to just weld it

[soundsarama]

This is fascinating and shows the hard graft of very clever people.

[mlcoo17]

I wonder how many shifts those gloees are good for.