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The steamship RMS Mauretania (1906) was constructed by Swan Hunter & Wingham Richardson, ship builders, not John Brown & Co.of Clydebank Scotland. HMS Maidstone (1937) HMS Mameluke (1915)
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, she was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953 and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts, a 133-foot (41 m ...
Pages in category "Ships built in Leith" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The most notable ships built in Leith are the SS Sirius, one of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic, and SS Copenhagen, one of the largest rigged ships ever built. Robb's yard also made a great contribution to the RN and MN during the Second World War, building forty-two vessels for the Royal Navy, fourteen merchant ships and refitted ...
The list of ship launches in 1838 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1838. ... For A. Brown. [5] ... Leith: John Cree:
HMS Leith (1777) was launched in 1744 or 1746 in the British "Plantations", more specifically, the colony of Maryland as the merchant ship Leith. From 1764 to 1777 she traded with Greenland as a whaler. Between 1777 and 1782 she served the Royal Navy as a transport and hired armed naval ship. She was last listed in 1783.
An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive. Dobson, David (1998). Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828. Vol. 1. Genealogical Publishing. Lubbock, Basil (1937). Arctic Whalers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson. Martine, John (1888). Reminiscences of Port and Town of Leith