Richard Smith and Co
From Graces Guide
Richard Smith and Company were based in the port of Preston, Lancashire
The yard transferred to a new site on the Ribble estuary to the East of Lytham at Lytham Creek.
1891 Delivered to the United Alkali Co, Widnes, the first of three small screw steamers. 'Length, 75 ft.; beam, 19ft. 6in.; depth, 8ft. 6in. ; on a draught of 7 ft. will carry 110 tons. The engines are compound surface condensing, 13 in. and 26 in. by 16 in. stroke, and steel boilers for 100 lb. working pressure.'[1]
1892 of Lytham; built a stern-wheel steamer for Jones, Burton and Co of Liverpool.
c.1893 Changed the name of the company to the Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Co
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Sources of Information
- British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss of Wallsend Shipyard, Wallsend-on-Tyne