Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

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Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

Served by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.

Chronology Dates

  /  /1883John Scott & Sons
Buys the Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard of Steel.
  /  /1934Scotts Shipbuilding & Eng Co Ltd
Scotts swap their Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) for Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (owned by the Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd). This allowed Scotts to create a shipyard which combined, from west to east, Cartsdyke Graving Dock, Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard and Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard. (The mid yard had been located between two Scotts owned sites.)
  /  /1966Scotts Shipbuilding & Eng Co Ltd
The Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd is absorbed, along with its Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard. All of the Cartsdyke and Cartsburn yards were now under Scotts. For vessels partly completed in the Cartsdyke yard the company Cartsdyke Dockyard Co Ltd is briefly registered. Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) becomes a steel fabrication site.
  /  /1980Scott-Lithgow Ltd
MV Myrmidon launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last cargo ship launched here.
  /  /1981Scott-Lithgow Ltd
HMS Challenger launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last Royal Navy ship (and ship altogether) launched here.
  /  /1983Scott-Lithgow Ltd
Sea Explorer, a self propelled semi-submersible drilling rig, is launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last launch ever here.
  /  /1988Scott-Lithgow Ltd
Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) demolished.

Books


Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)