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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.
Map of the Glasgow docks in 1909 showing D & W Henderson & Co. David & William Henderson and Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding company, based on Clydeside. It was founded in 1872 and traded until 1936. Its shipyard was on the north bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the River Kelvin. Scotway House in 2013
Three Harland & Wolff shipyards on the Clyde in the 1930s: The former A & J Inglis (east) shipyards at the top right with the tripod crane, the former D & W Henderson's (on the west bank of the Kelvin) and opposite the company's yard in Govan (on the site of the Govan Old, Govan New and Middleton yards) is at the bottom, left. [3]
The brothers founded the Clyde Bank Foundry in Anderston in 1847. They opened the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Cessnock, Govan, in 1851 and launched their first ship, Jackal, in 1852. They quickly established a reputation in building prestigious passenger ships, building Jura for Cunard in 1854 and the record breaking Russia in 1867.
The River Clyde (Scottish Gaelic: Abhainn Chluaidh, pronounced [ˈavɪɲ ˈxl̪ˠuəj]) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde, in the west of Scotland.It is the ninth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third longest in Scotland after the River Tay and the River Spey.
Ships built in Scotland along the River Clyde — including ships built in Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, and on the Clyde's lower tributaries.
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War.
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