Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard


Chronology Dates

  /  /1900Grangemouth Dockyard
Buys Russells Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard yard. Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co created.
  /  /1908Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard
Recognising the importance of the Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard the company name Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co is changed to mention Greenock first.
  /  /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.)
  /  /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.