This day in history, 27th Spetember 1938.

 The RMS Queen Elizabeth launches from Glasgow, where it was built at Clydebank (John Brown and Company), named after the queen consort (later to become the Queen Mother). It had an interesting life, serving as a troop carrier during WWII, but really it's an excuse for bringing up the shipping industry of Glasgow. Glasgow built ships for the British empire, profited mightily from the trading opportunities that empire gave, and that's why in the post-war period Glasgow felt the loss of empire sharply. When ship-building was decimated in Glasgow, and not really replaced with anything, that was quite a blow to Glasgow and the west of Scotland, as well as to ship-building - generations of expertise lost.