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.University of Glasgow Archives
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Port Glasgow Port Glasgow ( gd, Port Ghlaschu, ) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. The most rece ...

and

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of ...

on the lower Clyde in

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. Scott Lithgow was

nationalised Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. Reorganisation of Scott Lithgow in 1981 saw all the assets of its subsidiary companies transferred under the direct operational control of Scott Lithgow. 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.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. In 1984 Trafalgar House bought the company and the Company ceased to trade in 1993. File:Iolair+plank.jpg, Iolair being fitted out in 1982 The Glen Yard - geograph.org.uk - 1608628.jpg, Ocean Alliance under construction in 1986

References

Defunct shipbuilding companies of Scotland Companies based in Inverclyde British companies established in 1967 Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1967 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1993 1967 establishments in Scotland 1993 disestablishments in Scotland British Shipbuilders {{shipbuilding-stub