Ailsa Shipbuilding Company

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Ailsa & Perth, Limited
legal form Ltd.
founding 1885
resolution 2000
Seat Troon
Branch Shipyard

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company was a shipbuilding company based in Troon , Scotland .

history

Start time

The company was founded in 1885 by Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa . Around 1900, was acquired by Alexander McCreadie, Peter Wallace and Archibald Kennedy shared a shipyard and Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. named. In the following year, the company was converted to a limited company. A year later, Ailsa took over a shipyard with six helges in Ayr . The "Scottish National Antarctic Expedition" carried out from 1902 to 1904 received its expedition ship Scotia from the Ailsa shipyard. On October 30, 1902 (according to another source on November 2, 1902) she left Troon for her voyage to the South Atlantic . In addition to a number of other paddle steamers, the last paddle steamer of its kind in Great Britain was built here, the Medway Queen for the New Medway Shipping Company.

First World War

During the First World War , the first Bird class paddle steamer minesweeper was built at Ailsa for the Royal Navy . In addition, river gunboats and sloops were produced on behalf of the Admiralty .

The main client of the Troon shipyard during the 1920s was the General Steam Navigation Company from London, for whom a series of coastal freighters was built. Other shipping companies followed with similar orders. More than 200 sailing ships, necklaces and other coastal ships were built on the shipbuilding site before the shipyard was temporarily closed in 1929 due to the global economic crisis .

Second World War

The production of the Ailsa shipyard during the Second World War included, in addition to some minesweepers of the Bangor class , two corvettes of the Flower class , a hospital ship, two standard coastal freighters and eight standard freighters of Scandinavian design with a machine arranged amidships.

post war period

In the post-war years, from the second half of the 1940s, the company concentrated on the production of necklaces, freighters for liner services and coasters . In 1957/58 Ailsa built the first two British container ships with the Container Enterprise and her sister ship the Container Venturer . In 1961 the company employed 750 people and in the 1960s the construction of larger and smaller ferries was added to the program in order to meet the increasing global demand for ships for car and passenger transport.

On July 1, 1977, the shipyard was incorporated into the state-owned British Shipbuilders Corporation . In 1981 Ailsa and Ferguson Brothers were merged to form Ferguson-Ailsa, Limited . The two companies were separated in 1986 in order to continue running Ailsa as Ailsa & Perth, Limited after reprivatising and selling it to the Perth Corporation . Regular shipbuilding ended in 1988, but Ailsa was not finally closed as a company until 2000 (2003).

The shipyard was then still used for ship repairs and for the production of large concrete components for a project to expand the quay facilities in Grimsay , Western Isles . The company's archives are now located at Glasgow University .

Ships of the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company (selection)

  • HMS Alresford

  • HMS Atherstone

  • HMS Clacton (J151)

  • HMS Hythe

  • HMS Aphis

  • USS Emeline

  • Pentalina-B

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Expedition report . Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  2. ↑ Overview from Jane's Fighting Ships 1919 . Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  3. ↑ BBC News on the closure of the Ayrshire shipyard . Retrieved August 14, 2000.
  4. ↑ BBC News about the concrete boxes for the harbor . August 21, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  5. ↑ {{Web archive | url = http: //cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/search/? Operation = full & rsid = 14706 & firstrec = 21 & numreq = 20 & highlight = 1 & hitposition = 22 | wayback = 20151208035323 | text = - | archive- bot = 2018-08-22 13:00:12 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)

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