Scott Lithgow
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Shipbuilding |
Founded | 1967 |
Defunct | 1993 |
Fate | Merged into British Shipbuilders (1977) Acquired by Trafalgar House (1984) |
Headquarters | Port Glasgow and Greenock, Scotland |
Parent | British Shipbuilders (1977-1983) Trafalgar House (1983-1993) |
Subsidiaries | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Lithgows Greenock Dockyard Company Ferguson Shipbuilders |
Scott Lithgow, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company.
History
The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.[1] Scott Lithgow was based in Port Glasgow and Greenock on the lower Clyde in Scotland. Scott Lithgow was nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977.[1] Reorganisation of Scott Lithgow in 1981 saw all the assets of its subsidiary companies transferred under the direct operational control of Scott Lithgow.[1]
From 1980, the company became the centre of British Shipbuilders’ Offshore Division and it was hoped that the offshore semi-submersible market would lead the yard back to profitability. However the Ocean Alliance semi-submersible construction was a disastrous contract for the company, with the rig eventually delivered four years late and at a loss of over £200 million.[2]
In 1984 Trafalgar House bought the company and the Company ceased to trade in 1993.[1]
- Iolair being fitted out in 1982
- Ocean Alliance under construction in 1986
References
- ^ a b c d University of Glasgow Archives
- ^ Scott Lithgow: Déjà vu all over again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company, Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Research in Maritime History series: No. 30, October 2006.
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