Grangemouth Dockyard Co
From Graces Guide
The Grangemouth Dockyard Company was a Scottish company which was based initially in Canal Street on the river Carron in Grangemouth. The company was owned by William Millar and Samuel P. Jackson, who purchased the yard in 1885. The company moved twice before settling at the Cartsdyke Mid Yard in Greenock, although it continued maintianing its Grangemouth yard. The company made passenger liners and cargo ships.
Shipbuilding=
- 1900s - The company renamed itself Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. in order to emphasis the longer berths of its Clydeside yard. througout the 1900s, the yard built a number of coastal liners, colliers, along with tramps for British, South African and Indian comapnies.
- 1920s - the company reverted to the tilte of grangemouth dockyard Co. Ltd and aminly built for British shipowners. however in the late 20s, it also built ships for Australian and Indian companies.
- 1930s - the yard managed to survive The depression due to repair work and only restarted shipbuilding in 1936.
- World War II - The main output was colliers and coastal tankers: thriteen standard class colliers, twelve "Empire Cadet" class coastal tankers, along with three larger tankers, three coasters, and three standard "B" type coasters.
- 1950s - The main customer of the yard int he post-war years was Fred Everard and george Gibson whose trademanrk Everard "Yellow Perils" were made by Grangemouth. this, alsongside regular work for comapnies around the world for a variety of vessels ('flat-iron' colliers, ferries, tugs, refrigerated vessels, passenger liners and so on) kept the yard solvent for musch of the 50s.
- 1960s - The yard was sodl by the Millar family to Swan Hunter SHipbuilders Ltd in 1967 and it became part of their small ships division.
- 1970s - swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd decided to end small ship production and the last ship from the Grangemouth yard was the Fleetwood trawler Irvana.
- 1980s The Grangemouth yard had concentrated on repair work but it was sold privately in 1984 to its managing Director and two comrades. The yard closed in 1985 though.
Sources of Information
British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss