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| | Historical perspective for Grangemouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | The trade between Grangemouth and London, amounting to 100,000 tons annually, is wholly in the hands of the Carron Iron Company, and there are numerous steamship lines trading with ports in Norway, Sweden, the Baltic, and elsewhere. |
 | | The first steamer launched from Grangemouth was the Hecla, 80 feet long, built in 1839 as a tug for use at Memel, in Prussia; and shipbuilding, after declining for several years, has again revived, 12 vessels of 1835 tons having been launched here during 1879-81, all of them iron, and all steamers but two. |
 | | In 1880 Grangemouth was constituted a quoad sacra parish in the presbytery of Linlithgow and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. |
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