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The Scottish Built Ships database is a free-to-use record of over 35,000 ships built in Scotland. It was renamed from the "Clyde Built Ships" database when its scope was extended to cover the whole country's ship and boatbuilders.
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde. It entered liquidation, with much controversy, in 1971. That led to a "work-in" campaign at the company's shipyards, involving shop stewards Jimmy Airlie and Jimmy Reid, among others.
Ships built in Scotland along the River Clyde — including ships built in Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, and on the Clyde's lower tributaries.
Clyde-built ships database — ships and shipbuilders on the River Clyde; Clydebank Re-built Ltd. — regeneration of Clydebank; in particular, redevelopment of the riverfront areas previously given over to shipbuilding and marine engineering; Clydebank Restoration Trust; Clyde Waterfront Heritage — John Brown's Shipyard [permanent dead link ]
Ships built on the River Clyde (3 C, 1,440 P, 2 F) D. Ships built in Dundee (78 P) G. ... Scottish Built Ships database; RNOV Shabab Oman (1977) MV Sheaf Mount (1944)
From 1842 Robert Napier and Son built at a new yard across the Clyde at Govan their own iron-hulled vessels, river-steamers at first, instead of contracting out for the supply of wooden hulls. [2] Parkhead Forge was bought in 1848 to supply wrought iron plates and forgings. Steel hulls were introduced in the early 1880s.
Notable vessels built included the early Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liners Clyde, Dee, Solway and Tweed in 1841, SS Thetis of 1857, which John Scott (1830–1903) financed himself to test his theory about high pressure steam in the compound engine, which worked at about 120 lb f /in 2 in Thetis, [7] the early tanker Narragannsett in 1903, the barque Archibald Russell, the British S-class ...
Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited is a shipbuilding company whose yard, located in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, was established in 1903. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river.