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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.
In 1968 the yard merged into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, [15] but this consortium collapsed in 1971. [16] The last ship to be built at the yard, the Clyde-class bulk grain carrier Alisa, was completed in 1972. [17] In 1972 UCS's liquidator sold the Clydebank shipyard to Marathon Manufacturing Company.
In 1968, Stephens was incorporated into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders [7] and was closed after the latter organisation collapsed in 1971. [8] The engineering and ship repair elements of Alexander Stephen & Sons were not part of the UCS merger and continued until 1976, with the Company eventually wound up in 1982, when the shareholders were repaid.
Jimmy Airlie (10 November 1936, Renfrew – 10 March 1997, Erskine) was a leading Scottish trade unionist. While a shop steward, along with Sammy Gilmore, Sammy Barr and Jimmy Reid he was particularly remembered for his role as chairman of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in committee of 1971.
In 1968 the yard passed from Connell family ownership after 107 years and became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. [2] The Scotstoun yard continued to be operated by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders until 1971, when the company collapsed, [ 3 ] and from 1972 to 1980 by Scotstoun Marine Ltd , a subsidiary of Govan Shipbuilders .
The Fairfield West yard site was later used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1944 to build four landing craft. In 1924, the company bought a shipyard at Chepstow on the River Wye in South Wales, previously developed as National Shipyard No.1 in the First World War and then taken over by the Monmouthshire Shipbuilding Company. The ...
The Kingston is being redeveloped for residential purposes and the Glen is now the site of a large retail development. [5] Lithgows Ltd returned to shipbuilding in 1996 when they purchased the Buckie Shipyard in eastern Scotland. The shipyard went into administration in August 2013. [6]
In 1971, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders went into receivership and the Conservative government led by Edward Heath refused to give them a £6,000,000 loan. Rather than go on strike, which was the traditional form of industrial action, the union leadership of the yards decided to have a work-in and complete the orders that the shipyards had in place.