Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Laurence Hill and Co

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of Inch Works, Port Glasgow and of Laurence Poutney, London

Ship Builders

1857 Built the SS Admella

1861 Laurence Hill (b.1817) was a shipbuilder, employer, living in Greenock East[1]

1870 The company launched only two ships in the course of the year, by the end of which they were bankrupt. The yard and works were purchased by Messrs Cunliffe and Dunlop of Glasgow for £13,500.[2]. Laurence Hill was the sole partner.[3]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1861 census
  2. Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette 2 January 1871
  3. The Edinburgh Gazette 17 January 1871
  • Fred M. Walker, Song of the Clyde: A History of Clyde Shipbuilding (2001)