Blythswood Shipbuilding Company

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The Blythswood Shipbuilding Company Ltd. was a shipyard on the River Clyde in Scotstoun , Glasgow , (Scotland). The company, founded in 1919, was particularly known for building tankers and was incorporated into Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1964 .

history

The company was founded on October 6, 1919 by the two shipbuilders Hugh H. Macmillan and Donald Bremner in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both of them had already gained experience in shipbuilding in several shipyards. In the 1920s, the first construction contracts for tankers came in and the shipyard was expanded accordingly. The low freight rates canceled some orders and in 1923 the shipyard was idle with no orders. From 1924 orders for tramp ships came in again and from 1925 tankers were built again. In 1926 Blythswood received an order for four twin-screw motor ships from the shipping company Furness, Withy & Company .

The Manchester Port, built for Manchester Liners in 1935

In 1928 Blythswood was taken over by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company and in the 1930s, thanks to good business relationships, the shipyard repeatedly received construction orders for various types of ships from Furness, Withy - including replicas of the Javanese Prince . In the years of the Second World War, tanker construction series such as the Empire Cadet class or the Empire Pym type were also created for the British Admiralty .

After the war, the company continued its construction activities as usual with a high proportion of new tankers and was taken over by the Norcros Group in 1960. In the 1960s, due to its small size, the company was barely able to offer competitive construction prices and the number of tanker construction contracts decreased. Alternatively, Blythswood began producing caravans and mobile homes. In 1964 the shipyard was closed and the following year it was acquired by the neighboring Yarrow & Company shipyard, which expanded its warship construction with the Blythswood site.

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