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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.
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 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 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 .
In 1966 Lithgows purchased the Inchgreen Drydock from Firth of Clyde Drydock Company. It occupied the site of Lithgows' former Gas works at Inchgreen. In 1967 Lithgows merged with Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company to form Scott Lithgow Ltd although Lithgows traded separately as Lithgows (1969) Ltd. [1]
In December 1999, after Kvaerner announced a withdrawal from the shipbuilding industry, the Govan yard was purchased by Clydeport and then taken on a long-term 20-year lease by BAE Systems Marine, which also owned the former Yarrow Shipbuilders yard in Scotstoun on the Clyde. It is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships.
The company's goodwill and orders were purchased in 1964 by Alexander Stephen and Sons, which merged into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968. Simons-Lobnitz re-emerged from the collapse of UCS in 1971 and continues to operate as a marine engineering and naval architecture consultancy based in Paisley, now called Lobnitz Marine Holdings.
In 1968 the company was made part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, [29] which collapsed in 1971 [30] when a strike and work-in received national press attention. [31] As part of the recovery deal, Fairfields was formed into Govan Shipbuilders in 1972, which was itself later nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. [32]