See Beardmore Memorial Sculpture, Dalmuir, Clydebank, Scotland

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The Beardmore Sculpture, a war memorial at what was the entrance to Beardmore shipyard, a site now occupied by the Golden Jubilee Hotel and Hospital. The sculpture, designed by local artist Tom McKendrick, was installed here in 2010 and unveiled on 9 September that year. It was created at local request to commemorate the 13,000 people who worked at the Beardmore Naval Shipyard, Dalmuir during its active life 1906-1930. The structure, formed from pieces that replicate parts of a real ship, is surmounted by a visulalisation of the Revenge Class Dreadnought battleship 'Ramillies', launched here in 1916, and which saw active service in both World Wars. One of its later operations was on 6 June 1944 when, along with HMS Warspite, it opened fire at around 0530 to start the D-Day invasion, bombardments from the two ships being intended to destroy the Bennerville gun emplacements that were deemed a major threat to the Allied forces as they landed on the beaches. A substantial part of the shipyard site is now occupied by the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital and its integral hotel and conference centre, formerly known as the Beardmore Hotel. The whole was opened in 1994 as a private venture by an American corporation, with the hotel part to be used by relatives of the mostly wealthy patients, but financial difficulties soon arose and, after a period run by an Abu Dhabi company, the hospital was bought by NHS Scotland in 2002, and they also later took over the hotel.

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