page_title: Scottish Maritime Museum
section_title: Irvine - The Linthouse
hierarchical_section_title: Scottish Maritime Museum / Irvine - The Linthouse
caption_attribution_description: English: The City of Adelaide, the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, seen in April 2005 at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, North Ayrshire.
context_page_description: The Scottish Maritime Museum is an industrial museum with a Collection Recognised as Nationally Significant to Scotland. It is located at two sites in the West of Scotland in Irvine and Dumbarton, with a focus on Scotland's shipbuilding heritage.
context_section_description: The museum's Linthouse building is located at Irvine Harbour, situated within the category A listed former Engine Shop of Alexander Stephen and Sons, which was salvaged and relocated from their derelict Linthouse shipyard in Glasgow in 1991. The Linthouse engineering shop is now home a collection of significant vessels including MV Kyles and MV Spartan which are listed on the National Historic Ships UK register. A highly significant vessel built of iron in 1872 in Paisley, MV Kyles is the oldest iron Clyde built vessel still afloat in the UK. The museum also has a collection of marine engines and industrial machine tools, and owns a recreated 1920s worker's tenement flat at Irvine Harbour. The museum also has a significant collection of artwork funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
caption: City of Adelaide at the Irvine museum in April 2005. Controversy surrounded funding her restoration for over a decade. She was eventually relocated to Adelaide, South Australia, in 2013.
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