A photographic print of Industry, Shipbreaking

"GRAVEYARD OF GIANTS" WHERE BATTLESHIPS GO FOR SCRAP DG/PR "Abandon Hope All Ye That Enter Here" is the ironic warning over the entrance to the jetty of Messrs. Thomas Ward, shipbreakers, of Inverkeithing, Scotland, and so far as warships are concerned, the phrase applies down to the last rivet. Wards are the biggest shipbreakers in Britain, and one of the largest in the world. Not only are they the biggest shipbreakers, but they break up the biggest ships. To their yards - and to others such as Metal Industries, or Arnott and Young's - come such floating giants as "Rodney", Revenge", "Renown"; the "New York", once Hitler's "strength through joy" liner, and many others. Mighty fighting ships which sailed triumphantly through two world wars, find their last resting place under scrapyard cranes. Guns which the combined fleets of the Third Reich and Imperial Japanese Navy, failed to muzzle, are silent, as hissing oxy-acetylene cutters carve into their vitals. Much of the valuable scrap goes to sea again in the form of new ships, and thus fights in Britain's export drive. Brass, copper and much needed alloys are sent to Sheffield, while metal scrap goes to Newcastle. PHOTO SHOWS: A Shell Hoist in "B" turret, is removed from the barbette of H.M. S. Renown, at Metal Industries Dumbartonshire scrapyard. FOX PHOTOS (15) 49602 Industry - Ship breaking