Grangemouth Dockyard Company
The Grangemouth Dockyard Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company. Mainly liner and cargo ships were built.
history
The shipyard's original shipbuilding site was on Canal Street in Grangemouth on the River Carron . It was established in 1885 by William Millar and Samuel P. Jackson. In 1888 the company acquired two more shipyards, in Alloa and Ardrossan . In 1900 it also acquired the Greenock Dock Company shipyard in Greenock , and in 1908 the company was renamed the Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company . In the 1900s, the shipyard built a number of liner freighters for coastal travel, colliers and tramp ships for British, South African and Indian shipping companies .
Towards the end of the First World War the shipyard in Greenock was sold to Cayzer, Irvine & Co. and continued to operate as Greenock Dockyard Co. The Grangemouth operations now functioned as Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. During these years, mainly British shipping companies were supplied, but towards the end of the 1920s, customers from Australia and India could be won again. The 1930s were after the Great Depression only be bridged with repairs before returning the first new buildings were started in the 1936th
During the Second World War, the company mainly built colliers and coastal tankers, including 13 Standard Colliers, twelve coastal tankers of the "Empire Cadet" class. In addition, another three larger tankers, three coastal freighters and three standard coastal freighters of type "B" were built.
The build list in the 1950s was determined by larger series for Fred Everard and George Gibson, whose trademarks became the Everard "Yellow Perils" from Grangemouth. However, there were also significant numbers of Flatiron colliers , ferries , tugs , refrigerated vessels and passenger ships. In 1961 the shipyard employed around 800 people.
In 1967 the Millar family sold the company to Swan Hunter , who initially incorporated it into their small shipbuilding department, but ended shipbuilding in Grangemouth in 1972 after the delivery of the Fleetwood trawler Irvana . In Grangemouth only ship repairs were carried out. In the course of the shipyard crisis , Grangemouth Dockyard was nationalized as a subsidiary of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders on July 1, 1977 in the British Shipbuilders Corporation , but was privatized again in 1983 under the subsequent government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . The shipyard was sold to the managing director and two partners in 1984, but finally closed in 1985 and dissolved in 1987.