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Faced with declining business the Renfrew yard finally closed in 1964,[1] after some 1300 dredgers as well as barges and tugs had been built at the site.

One late example survives: SS Shieldhall was built as a Clyde sludge boat in 1954 with reciprocating steam engines, and now operates as a pleasure cruiser on the Solent.

Also still afloat is the William C. Daldy a steam tug operating as a pleasure vessel in Auckland, New Zealand, where she sailed from the Clyde in 1935/6.

She was renamed HMS President in 1921 and served as the London Division Royal Naval Reserve training ship until 1988, before being sold into private ownership.

She survives near Blackfriars Bridge on the Victoria Embankment of the River Thames in London, as one of only three remaining World War I British warships.