Ferguson was merged with Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon to form Appledore Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd. By the late 1980s only the Appledore Ferguson yards...
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British Shipbuilders initially comprising 32 shipyards, six marine engine works and 6 general engineering plants. Collectively, British Shipbuilders accounted...
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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...
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operate the services. Many of CalMac's ferries had been built by Ferguson Shipbuilders, which five years earlier had employed 300 people, but it had struggled...
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Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 (section List of assets subsumed by British Shipbuilders)
to form Ferguson-Ailsa) Appledore Shipbuilders, Appledore Austin & Pickersgill, Sunderland Brooke Marine, Lowestoft Cammell Laird Shipbuilders, Birkenhead...
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and Company, Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. and John Browns. Between 1973 and 1980 Scotstoun Marine Ltd, a subsidiary of Govan Shipbuilders, also operated the...
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Swan Hunter (redirect from Swan Hunter Shipbuilders)
Wigham Richardson merged with Smiths Dock Company to form Associated Shipbuilders, which later became Swan Hunter Group. Following the publication of the...
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Appledore Shipbuilders is a shipbuilder in Appledore, North Devon, England. The Appledore Yard was founded in 1855 on the estuary of the River Torridge...
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during the winter months. Two new dual fuel ferries are being built by Ferguson Marine Engineering. The first, named MV Glen Sannox is due to enter service...
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Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited (YSL), often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipbuilding firm based in the Scotstoun district of Glasgow on the River...
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Southampton to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. She was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow. She first entered service in 1994, being bought...
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Royal Navy. In the lower Clyde, only one shipyard still operates: Ferguson Shipbuilders, which is next to Newark Castle, Port Glasgow. The Garvel dry dock...
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Southampton to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. She was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow. She first entered service in 1994, being bought...
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Maritime College training vessel. The ship was built in 1953 by Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow, Scotland for the Port Phillip Sea Pilots organisation...
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built for the Midland Railway in 1905. TSS Wyvern was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow for the Midland Railway. She was launched on 10 October...
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BAE Systems (category British Shipbuilders)
supersonic transport; Supermarine, manufacturer of the Spitfire; Yarrow Shipbuilders, builder of the Royal Navy's first destroyers; Fairfield Shipbuilding...
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business and set up their own shipyard, Ferguson Shipbuilders, at Port Glasgow. However, Fleming and Ferguson survived their departure and developed a...
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Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering (category British Shipbuilders)
1977 and subsumed into British Shipbuilders. The ex-Vickers yard at Barrow was the first shipyard of the British Shipbuilders group to return to the private...
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ordered 10 July 1943 from Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley. Warkworth Castle – ordered 10 July 1943 from Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley. The following ships were...
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Harland & Wolff (category British Shipbuilders)
Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986. Today, the company is focused on...
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and the second Sound of Sanda replaced older vessels. In 2001, Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow delivered the second Sound of Scarba, the company's...
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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (redirect from Fairfield Shipbuilders)
Govan Shipbuilders in 1972, which was itself later nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. On the break-up of British Shipbuilders under...
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Cammell Laird (category British Shipbuilders)
& Shipbuilders in 2005. Peel Holdings, owners of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and 50% owners of Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders, purchased...
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shipyards in the Baltic region. Ferguson Shipbuilders is in Port Glasgow in inverclyde Scotland on the River Clyde. The Ferguson yard has been building ships...
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commercial shipyard Ferguson Shipbuilders set to close". The Guardian. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 15 Aug 2014. "Jim McColl's Ferguson shipyard wins £97m...
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in the summer of 1986. A larger ferry, MV Loch Shira, built at Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow, entered service on 2 June 2007. At peak times,...
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subsequently adopted in British Shipbuilders' other shipyards, and in the USA. Following sale of Appledore Shipbuilders to the Government at the time of...
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operated by P&O Maritime Services. Cefas Endeavour was constructed at Ferguson Shipbuilders in Glasgow. She was named by Lindsay Murray, Cefas' science area...
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shipbuilding centre, and the castle was surrounded by shipyards. Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last shipyard on the lower Clyde, stands close to the west...
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BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships (category British Shipbuilders)
(formerly Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd) and runs the second Govan (formerly Kvaerner Govan, Govan Shipbuilders, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and Fairfields), shipyard...
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