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Coal merchants, Alexandra Wharf, Lerwick, Shetland | Coal merchants, Alexandra Wharf, Lerwick, Shetland | ||
1923 The '''Scapa Flow Salvage and Shipbreaking Company Limited''' was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £7,000. It was a local initiative to secure some of the salvage work offered by the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in the Orkney anchorage of Scapa Flow. | 1923 The '''Scapa Flow Salvage and Shipbreaking Company Limited''' was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £7,000.<ref>The Scotsman 26 May 1923</ref> It was a local initiative to secure some of the salvage work offered by the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in the Orkney anchorage of Scapa Flow. The principal promoter was a Lerwick shipowner and convener of the county of Shetland, J. W. Robertson.<ref>The Scotsman 4 June 1923</ref> | ||
1928 By now the company's name had changed to Robertsons (Lerwick) Limited, the name it bore for the rest of its existence.<ref>Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland 1928</ref> | 1928 By now the company's name had changed to Robertsons (Lerwick) Limited, the name it bore for the rest of its existence.<ref>Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland 1928</ref> | ||
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Coal merchants, Alexandra Wharf, Lerwick, Shetland
1923 The Scapa Flow Salvage and Shipbreaking Company Limited was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £7,000.[1] It was a local initiative to secure some of the salvage work offered by the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in the Orkney anchorage of Scapa Flow. The principal promoter was a Lerwick shipowner and convener of the county of Shetland, J. W. Robertson.[2]
1928 By now the company's name had changed to Robertsons (Lerwick) Limited, the name it bore for the rest of its existence.[3]
2020 The company, long dormant, was dissolved.[4]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Scotsman 26 May 1923
- ↑ The Scotsman 4 June 1923
- ↑ Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland 1928
- ↑ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC012698