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Hilhouse vacated the shipyard and dry-dock at Wapping on the south side of the River Avon in 1824, and Scott seized the opportunity to enter shipbuilding with his son, James Mullen Scott, as William Scott & Son. [3] William Patterson joined the firm as Scott's assistant [4] and together they built the steam packet Lord Beresford for the Channel ...
He was succeeded by his son William Scott (1722-1769) and another son. In 1765 they built their first square-rigged vessel. William's son John (1752-1837) expanded the shipyard to a major shipbuilding company. [1] The Scott family took over the Greenock Foundry in 1790. In 1791, Scott & Co. built Brunswick, of 600-ton (bm), for the Newfoundland ...
The company was replaced by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1904. At the turn of the 20th century, John Willard Young, a son of Mormon pioneer Brigham Young, [1] [2] promoted the idea that many leading American shipbuilding companies should form one gigantic combination. [3] The United States Shipbuilding Company was the manifestation of ...
The company was founded by William Allpress in 1913 in London. [1] In 1954 it started to focus on developments in cathodic protection for pipelines forming Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd ('MAPEL'). [2] In the 1970s it converted about 50% of the UK's houses from town gas to natural gas. [3]
A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant. Kelli Williams, a former construction ...
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