Clyde Shipbuilding Company

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The shipbuilding company Clyde Shipbuilding Company in Port Glasgow and Greenock went back to the shipyard of Blackwood and Gordon and existed from about 1852 to 1978.

history

Blackwood and Gordon

The Blackwood and Gordon shipyard began its work around 1852 and began building iron ships after a few wooden ships. In 1865, she built a 600-ton propeller-driven ship. The shipyard was closed from 1887 to 1889. In 1890 the steamers Vulcan and Vauban received a triple expansion engine. At the world exhibition in Antwerp in 1894, the shipyard exhibited a model ship of the 950-tonne steamer Austerland, built in 1886 . After Blackwood made attempts at the end of his shipyard's existence to get the business going again, the Clyde Shipbuilding Company took over the shipyard in 1900.

Clyde Shipbuilding Company

Shortly after the takeover by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company, the Castle Shipyard in Glasgow, which is located near Newark Castle , received new construction contracts. In the years leading up to World War I, the shipyard built a number of ships for shipping companies from Great Britain, Denmark and other countries. British and Australian shipping companies also received coastal passenger ships during these years. From 1914 to 1918 four gunboats and a few standard ships were built.

New owners

In 1919 the yard was taken over by the John Slater Group and then began designing larger ships than before. In the 1920s to 1928, the shipyard built eleven larger ships and some Great Lakes ships. When the John Slater Group collapsed in the course of the shipbuilding crisis in 1927, they sold the shipbuilding company to James Lamont, who closed it. Due to the approaching Second World War, the shipyard was reopened in 1938 and initially started to operate ship repairs.

post war period

From 1946 the shipyard also resumed shipbuilding and built various types of ships for shipping companies from West Africa, Norway, Sweden and Scotland. In the 1950s, the shipyard gained a good reputation for building tugs and small car ferries. After over 70 ships had been built in the post-war period, the company ended shipbuilding in Glasgow in 1978 and only continued the ship repair business with two dry docks in Greenock. In 1989, however, this company also closed.

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